Editing 1992 Los Angeles riots (section)

===Mainstream media===
While several articles included the minorities who were involved when damages were cited or victims were named, few of them actually incorporated them as a significant aspect of the struggle. One story framed the race riots as occurring at a "time when the wrath of blacks was focused on whites".<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|226263559}} |last=Sinclair |first=Abiola |title=Media Watch: The Bloods and the Crips |work=New York Amsterdam News |date=23 May 1992 }}</ref> They acknowledged the fact that [[racism]] and [[Stereotypes of African Americans|stereotyped views]] contributed to the riots; articles in American newspapers portrayed the LA riots as an incident that erupted between [[Black people|black]] and [[white people]] who were struggling to coexist with each other, rather than include all of the minority groups that were involved in the riots.<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|140745442}} |last=Wilkins |first=Roger |title=Looking Back in Anger: 27 Years After Watts, Our Nation Remains Divided by Racism |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1992/05/03/looking-back-in-anger-27-years-after-watts-our-nation-remains-divided-by-racism/d3833cf1-8bed-46de-8bae-ce1a02ac2398/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=3 May 1992 }}</ref>

On ''[[Nightline]]'', [[Ted Koppel]] initially only interviewed black leaders about the black/Korean conflict,<ref name="NYT1990">{{cite web| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/17/nyregion/black-customers-korean-grocers-need-mistrust-shoppers-complain-hostile-treatment.html|title=Black Customers, Korean Grocers: Need and Mistrust|last=Sims|first=Calvin|date=17 May 1990|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-10-20}}</ref> and they shared detrimental opinions about Korean Americans.<ref name="Jump">{{cite journal| url=http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC40folder/AokiOnRisingSun.html|title=Rising Sun: Interview with activist Guy Aoki: Total eclipse of the Sun|last=Payne|first=Robert M.|journal=Jump Cut|volume=40|date=March 1996|pages=29–37|access-date=2020-10-20}}</ref>

Activist [[Guy Aoki]] became frustrated with early coverage because only black/White framing was used in it, the Korean American community and the suffering which it experienced were vilified and ignored.<ref name="Jump"/>

Some felt that too much emphasis was placed on the suffering of Korean Americans. As filmmaker [[Dai Sil Kim-Gibson]], who produced the 1993 documentary ''Sa-I-Gu'', described, "black-Korean conflict was one symptom, but it was certainly not the cause of that riot. The cause of that riot was the black-white conflict that existed in this country from the establishment of this country."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-la-riots-korean-american-filmmakers-20170428-htmlstory.html|title='Look what happens when we don't talk to each other': Korean American filmmakers' L.A. riots stories|last=Yamato|first=Jen|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=April 28, 2017|access-date=May 12, 2018}}</ref>

In an [[NBC News]] article written by Hanna Kang, she sees the conflict between Korean Americans and blacks as overstated and only part of the story was told in the news. In this article, Kang interviews more than twenty people from both races in many different fields, and all of them had the same view of the media during the riots.  They all believe the influence of the news coverage persuaded how the public looked at the riots. She goes on to say that many of the pictures that were shown in the media coverage of Korean Americans, were pictures of them standing on the tops of the buildings defending them. This was only a small portion of the store owners who could do this.  With these misunderstandings between the two races, many believe that education is the only way to get rid of these conflicts in the future.<ref>Hanna Kang, "Korean American-Black conflict during L.A. riots was overemphasized by media, experts say.", NBCNews, April 29, 2022</ref>