class 8 respond

Most studies report the cause of Los Angeles riots of 1992 as a result of racial tension between the African-American community and the whites. The riots resulted in almost $1 billion in property damage, nearly half of it was property owned by Korea Americans. The media, especially Los Angeles Times, played a major role in instigating tension between the African American community and the Korean American community. The Los Angeles Times covered on the conflict excluding the positives meeting that were happening to bring the two communities together. The media drifted attention from the real nature of the problem and started directing the problem to racism and cultural ignorance. In the words of Darnell Hunt, “by covering conflict to the exclusion of harmony and collaborations, they misled a lot of people who get all their information from media and in the process shaping the attitudes to a large degree, which influenced their behavior” (Goldman, 2012).