How Did The Source Cover the 1992 Los Angeles Uprisings?

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🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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A conversation about the moral and journalistic responsibilities of entertainment-focused media to address the political issues brought up by the art it covers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your choose your words carefully of music news and criticism.
0:08.8	I'm your host John Caramonica.
0:10.8	We will not tolerate. Things are not tolerate.
0:17.0	Things are no better in the country no better and as you guys know
0:28.9	know from last week I wasn't quite sure how to do pop- or what we should do with that previous episode that we recorded before things really got out of hand.
0:40.0	And I was thinking a lot about how I want to handle this week's show.
0:44.4	It occurred to me that there are precedents for the current cultural and political moment
0:50.4	and I was wondering how did the magazines that I grew up reading, the source especially,
0:59.0	what were they doing around the time of the Los Angeles Uprising.
1:03.0	And I'm very fortunate in that two of my OGs are Reggie Dennis and James Bernard,
1:10.0	who were top-ranking editors at the source during the early 90s.
1:15.0	And I have a lot of old source issues, and I have a lot of issues from 1992, but I didn't
1:19.6	have the key one, which is the August 1992 issue and I hit Reggie and I asked him if he had it and he did and he took pictures of what their coverage was and sent it to me and I got to read a very long piece by James about going to Los Angeles, writing around South Central,
1:38.0	talking to regular folks, talking to political folks, talking to gang gang members and really painting a picture of what the vandalism and looting and also the political potential of that moment meant from a perspective that was radically different from how the mainstream
1:55.4	news was covering Los Angeles in that moment.
1:59.2	And then I realized that's what I want Popcast to be about this week. I want popcast to be about
2:05.2	how did the source cover that moment? What are the responsibilities of music related
2:10.0	publications, hip-hop publications, to rise to moments like the one that we are experiencing in our country
2:16.8	right now. I'm very fortunate that James and Reggie agreed to come on and talk about that.
2:23.0	So this week, that's what we're going to get into.
2:25.6	It's the source, 1992, the Los Angeles Uprising.
2:29.7	James Bernard is here, was the senior editor of the source.
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