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Local TV Got the 1992 Uprising Wrong. Veteran LA Newscaster Marc Brown Doesn’t Want a Repeat of Those Mistakes

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By Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large As KABC/Channel 7 anchor Marc Brown covers the ongoing protests against police brutality, as well as the unrest that has followed, he’s mindful of not repeating some of ways that local TV did — and didn’t — cover the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. “In 1992, it became just coverage of looting, coverage of fires,” he told Variety of the events following the Rodney King trial, in which officers were found not guilty in the beating of an African American man, despite video proof of the assault. “The problem between the community and police kind of got glossed over and left behind in the carnage that we were having to report on.” “I wanted to make sure that as we cover it, that we don’t make the kind

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