A pirate road movie.

• Author: Walker, Jesse
• Position: Briefly Noted - Pirate Radio U.S.A. - Movie review - Brief article

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In 1996 Jeff Pearson attended the Media & Democracy Congress in San Francisco, where he was disappointed to find a lot of "one-way talk ... as in they talk, you listen." The only benefit: He met a pirate radio broadcaster, who excited him with the idea that you could fight media consolidation not with numbing conferences but by making some media of your own.

So Pearson and Mary Jones made Pirate Radio U.S.A., an engaging, visually inventive documentary now available on DVD. Shooting it meant crisscrossing the country from Iowa City to Tucson and from Seattle to D.C...