 I began my journalism career on television, covering the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. Some people called it an insurrection. They were riots, and they were terrible. Fifty-plus people died. I covered them every night for Life and Times, KCET. That was my introduction to television journalism. My program had gone on the air, Life and Times, which I co-hosted with Pat Morrison, Carmen Maddox, and Ruben Martinez in the spring of that year, so I'm acquainted very well with mob violence.