KPBS news editor Tom Fudge‘s last name takes on extra, emphatic
meaning this morning. That’s because his outlet and several
others in San Diego recently fudged the proper history of Balboa
Park.  Contrary to reports by KPBS, a local FOX affiliate and
others, 2015 is not the upcoming centenary of the city’s
beautiful Balboa Park. From Fudge’s account of his meeting by
the lily pond with Horticultural Committee of the Friends of
Balboa Park member Nancy Carol Carter:  “Balboa Park was
actually founded in 1868,” said Carter. “So it has 47 years of
history before the [1915] exposition.”  During those 47 years it
wasn’t called Balboa Park. It was called City Park. It had 1,400
acres and not much else. There was an ammunition dump. There was
a pound for stray animals.  Read more