The L.A. Riots | 1. The Tape
Slow Burn
The Most Important Thing When You Write a Story
The day after george holiday's tape aired on k t l a, tobar was assigned to the story. The world had seen the video of rodney king's beating. Tobar's job was to start the process of understanding what those images meant. He made calls to his own sources and pulled together notes from a handful of other reporters. It would run on page one.
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