IN THIS ISSUE Pirate TV. Public access freaks. A quaint time when saying "fuck" on cable was genuinely transgressive. Ant Farm drove a Cadillac through flaming televisions and called it art (it was). Radical video collectives, TVTV's media vans, basement studios producing shows so bizarre they couldn't exist anywhere else. This issue is a look at the pre-internet fantasy that democratizing media would liberate us instead of just giving everyone megaphones to scream into the void simultaneously.