Hosted by a brown, furry, coffee-drinking puppet, Paper Tiger Reads Columbus Media is a well-researched and thorough do-it-yourself analysis of the local media landscape of Columbus, Ohio in 1992. Produced by local residents using hand-made posters and graphics, the show exposes the downtown real estate purchases and pet projects of the Wolfe family, the owners of the Columbus Dispatch. Rob Huesca explains how these conflicts of interest result in a surplus of “puff pieces” in the newspaper promoting downtown business interests. The show also highlights the way Native American perspectives are relegated to the back pages of the newspaper, while Columbus Day celebrations that line the pockets of Columbus’s downtown business owners are promoted with full-page spreads and color photographs. Finally, the show offers a tour of Columbus’s alternative local press, including Columbus Alive, The Other Paper, Hoot, and WCBE, featuring discussions with independent media producers on the challenges and triumphs of standing up to the “big boys” of mainstream local media. Produced by PTTV with ACTV Channel 21 at the Wexner Center for the Arts.