LA Times corrects misquote, context, attribution:
Parenting: In a column in the Feb. 28 Section A about the challenge parents face in letting go when children leave home, Jill Fields was misquoted as saying, in reference to a summer she spent as a teenager in the 1970s visiting Watts, “The most exciting time was one night when somebody had a gun.” What she said was that there was “excitement one night when somebody had a gun.” Fields did not see a gun and did not personally consider the news exciting. The column also refers to a classmate making anti-Semitic remarks. The remarks were not made by a classmate, but by someone her class encountered during a field trip.
