One Man’s Machines  Lone Guy Wrangles Worldwide Weirdness in
Winner Show  Sometimes the very things a technology lacks are
what give it life. Working mostly with a few thousand dollars'
worth of video-editing equipment in a spare room of his Upper
West Side apartment, veteran TV writer Jamie Greenberg distills
the grainy images and rough cuts of old-school videotape into
Media Shower, a public-access show miles apart from its better-
funded network cousins.  Best described as America's Funniest
Home Videoscrossed with TheDaily Showand Mystery Science Theater
3000, Greenberg's Media Showeris one of those rare public-access
programs whose peak moments are as entertaining as the best
offerings on mainstream TV. And both Media Showeritself and the
clips it features are deeply informed by the rickety technology
used to capture them.  "If someone showed you the Magna Carta or
the Gutenberg Bible and it was perfectly pristine and brand-new
looking, it wouldn't seem as otherworldly or as sought-after,"
Greenberg says.