I just happened to turn on the tv right when the segment was beginning. We don't normally watch ABC in the morning, and NBC didn't have anything about it that I saw. DH laughed when I told him about the "controversy" and also commented that AG is just getting free publicity.

Melissa, Pilsen is not specifically mentioned in the book. Only that she lives across the street from some park. Well, apparently Pilsen is the real life neighborhood across from that park or including that park.

It's funny that they mention the gang and crime problems in every article/segment yet there is still attention to the situation.

In the ABC segment, they said AG has no plans to change the book and that Gary Soto said the offending passage is being taken out of context.