UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 11, 1993
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Media accused of bias
By Jav Koester
Special to the Kansan
The media coverage of Korean Americans in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King verdict amounted to "video media racism," said Elaine Kim, professor of Asian-American Studies at the University of California-Berkley, in a speech last night.
The speech in Dyche Hall, "A Korean American Perspective of the L.A. Riots," was part of the Asian-American Festival sponsored by the Asian-American Student Union. About 40 people attended the speech.
Kim said the media only had provided images of Korean Americans attempting to protect their stores with guns and of screaming, hysterical women bemoaning the loss of their stores. The images portrayed Korean Americans as violent and selfish, she said.
"The media showed all Korean Americans as being alike and that all they cared about was themselves," Kim said. "The media didn't provide any history or context for the images they were showing. I knew there was a lot more to the problem than the images that they were showing."
The media only look at race issues as a problem between African Americans and whites, Kim said. That focus causes many to be ignorant of Korean-American problems and concerns, she said.
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"Most people in the United States don't seem to know that more than half of the material losses caused by the riot were sustained by Korean Americans," she said.
Kim said she was angry that the media only had talked to a few Korean representatives like herself because they were educated and could speak English.
"The media conducted a short-lived and feverish search for spokespeople like me who were removed three or four times from the riots," she said. "They just looked for people they were comfortable with."
The speech helped show that the riots affected everybody, said John Hansen, Dodge City senior.
"When you think of the Rodney King incident, you would think that it would only affect African Americans and whites," Hansen said. "This helped to show that issues like these
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Elaine Kim, professor of Asian-
American Studies at the University
of California-Berkeley, reads hate
letters she received after writing a
story about the Los Angeles riots.
affect everybody. The purpose of the Asian-American Festival was to create some awareness of Asian-American issues, and this was a good speech to conclude the week."
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Kuoen Tsao, a member of Asian American Student Union executive board, said Kim's perspective had helped show a media bias against Korean Americans.
"She showed the problems that distortion of the news can create," Tsao said.
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Show to link radio stations
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Kansan staff writer
By James J. Reece
A sports talk show produced by KJHK, the University's student-run radio station, will be the premiere event of the Big 8 College Radio Network, which will link six college radio stations in the Big Eight Conference.
The two-hour radio show, "Big 8 Hoopla," starts at 7 tonight and will preview the Big Eight Conference Tournament.
"It is tournament eve and seems to be a natural time for this idea," Mensendiek said.
He said choosing tonight for the broadcast was easy.
Tim Mensendiek, general manager of KJHK, said the broadcast was made possible by satellite time donat-
The snow will give callers from the campuses a chance to ask questions about the tournament, said Jason Lamb, Great Bend junior and one of the hosts of the show.
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Lamb said the broadcast would link KJHK with five other Big Eight campus radio stations. They are. KSBAT in Kansas State University, KRNU at the University of Nebraska, KCOU at the University of Missouri, KSPI-FM at Oklahoma State University and WWLS-AM at the University of Oklahoma.
"It's really the first step in establishing a nationwide network in college radio stations."Lamb said.
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The show will be broadcast from the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., and features guests from each Big Eight school who will field questions from callers.
Mensendiek said the satellite linked the origin of the broadcast in Kansas City. Mo., to the KJHK station. The broadcast then will be linked to each Big Eight radio station by telephone lines.
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He said no plans were definite, but weekly talk shows and forums between schools were possibilities.
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"This program will become a test," he said. "If it goes well, we will be looking to expand."
Mensendiek said he hoped the broadcast would lead to more radio links between Big Eight schools.
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