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Otis Chandler is a director of the Times Mirror Company and former editor of the Los Angeles Times. In his interview, he expresses a certain hopelessness about the riots’ ability to meaningfully change the city’s structural problems. Chandler believes people have to be willing to undergo major structural overhauls if they want real change. He insists that it’s not enough to claim that symbols of change, such as the federal conviction of two of the LAPD officers involved in Rodney King’s beating, will be enough to dismantle LA’s deep-seated systemic flaws.
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Otis Chandler Character Timeline in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
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Something Cooking Here
Smith interviews Otis Chandler, a director of the Times Mirror Company and former editor of the Los Angeles Times....
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Chandler reiterates that he doesn’t want to sound hopeless. However, he maintains that if real change...
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Chandler cautions that this situation has happened before. After the Watts riots, the city was absorbed...
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