It was sometime around 3 a.m. and I’d been watching MTV (or, to be really precise, I’d had my TV switched to MTV; there’s a slight but crucial difference). I’d reached that rock video saturation point where I knew I couldn’t go round one more time with Quiet Riot terrorizing those sorry suburban kids whose idea of a party all night is pizza and Trivial Pursuit and I couldn’t face watching Madonna breath and undulate for at least another 24 hours. I flicked around the remote and, failing to come up with either Mothra or an old Robert Mitchum movie, I settled on CBS’s all-night news show Nightwatch. They were conducting a head to head debate between an individual named John Douglas, a spokesperson for a clean-up TV organization, Morality in Media, on one side and the TV critic of The Wall Street Journal on the other.