Jake Randolph in "The Naked Beat" Pt. 3

I was waiting for Rebecca Jordan, an up-and-coming junior reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She was writing an in-depth article about the phenomenon of the Beatniks.

This new subculture grew out of the social community of underground, nonconformist youth in New York City, particularly Greenwich Village. The Beat Generation, as it was christened by author Jack Kerouac, were a collection of writers, poets, painters and musicians, intending the movement to be a different and unique kind of spirituality, but which was soon corrupted by the usual hangers-on and exploited and sensationalized by the mass media...