By Joy Buchanan, Kristina Sauerwein and Stuart Silverstein, Times Staff Writers
Staff writers Monte Morin, Lance Pugmire, Arlene Martinez, Andrew Blankstein, Richard Winton and Seema Mehta contributed to this report.
Well you're absolutely right (and I was wrong). I thought for sure the LA Time would minimize the professor's involvement (after all, the editors would say, her heart was in the right place). Maybe they were really irked that they had been jerked around by this woman into devoting far more column inches to a couple of names spraypainted on a car than they did to murders, rapes, assaults and drive by shootings. Whatever the reason, the LA Times did do the right thing in the end by reporting the hoax completely.