Lyrics “If you go to San Francisco make sure you wear flowers in your hair. If you go to San Francisco you will meet some kind people,” he described the kind, free and loving scene that has taken over California. This was a positive way of re-enacting the event, unlike how it was portrayed in the media. Like every major event in history, you can see a positive and a negative side. Although drug use was present in the Summer of Love for those who took psychedelic drugs to explore and expand their discovery of a new life, the humble, good-natured and positive atmosphere that the event expelled erased the negative decisions of some. However, as with the portrayal of a "hippie", the media saw the negative side of the event and decided to explore it. Glenn W. Smith recalls the media portrayal of the Summer of Love on the occasion of the event's 40th anniversary in his article 'What the Media Misses About the Summer of Love', in which he states: "The media searches for the lost keys wherever they are already pointed their cameras. They rarely hunt in those places where they are most likely to find the keys. With this, Smith reflects on the way the media went about finding all the negative qualities of the scene because they ultimately knew it would attract the most. focus on their stories. By manipulating what was really happening to their own advantage, the media continued to develop the negative role they had in portraying the situation.