Posted on 01/23/2010 8:23:43 AM PST by mills044
Ellie Light sure gets around.
In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.
“It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,” said a letter from alleged Philadelphian Ellie Light, that was published in the Jan. 19 edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.
A letter from Light in the Jan. 20 edition of the San Francisco Examiner concluded with an identical sentence, but with an address for Light all the way across the country in Daly City, California.
Variations of Light’s letter ran in Ohio’s Mansfield News Journal on Jan. 13, with Light claiming an address in Mansfield; in New Mexico’s Ruidoso News on Jan. 12, claiming an address in Three Rivers; in South Carolina’s The Sun News on Jan. 18, claiming an address in Myrtle Beach; and in the Daily News Leader of Staunton, Virginia on Jan. 15, claiming an address in Waynesboro. Her publications list includes other papers in Ohio, West Virginia, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania and California, all claiming separate addresses.
Light – who e-mailed an identical missive to this reporter on Jan. 16 without listing a hometown – would not answer e-mailed questions about the address discrepancies in newspapers that ran her letter, or her identity, although she did say she wasn’t a former co-worker of this reporter’s who had a similar name.
“I do not write as a representative of any organization,” she said in an e-mail. “The letter I wrote was motivated by surprise and wonderment at the absence of any media support for our President, who won a record-breaking election by a landslide less than 18 months ago, and now, seems to be abandoned by all, supposedly for the infantile reason that he couldn’t make all of Bush’s errors disappear in one day.”
University of Missouri journalism professor Tom Rosenstiel, co-author of a textbook on journalistic values titled “The Elements of Journalism,” reacted with surprise and wonderment upon learning of Light’s widespread publication under multiple addresses.
philly.comHe said newspapers might be able to avoid similar situations in the future by requesting street addresses and home telephone numbers from would-be correspondents, and verifying that those addresses and phone numbers exist.
"Just because it is inconvenient for us in the news business to find out who people are doesn’t mean it isn’t important anymore,” Rosenstiel said. “It is not OK for people to have multiple identities. This is something that people in the news business and in the business of printing “letters to the editor” need to be aware of.”
The Plain Dealer asks letter writers for a phone number for verification purposes.
Bush said being the president is hard work. He got excoriated for it.
Coincidence...?
Seems to be an Obama Kool-aid drinker with too much time on her hands...
Obama’s average letter to the editor.
Same story from a different source. Not thread policing, just pointing to it in case anyone wants to check it out.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435422/posts
I’m going through local papers myself and if I find a local Ellie Light I’m forwarding it on to the writer of this story.
Wasn’t there a guy named “Packer” that many of the Lib news organizations kept on interviewing a few years back? If I remember correctly, Ann Coulter caught it and did a beautiful job of slamming them in one of her columns.
My bet is Ellie Light is a White House staffer working for Rahm Emmanuel or David Axelrod and of course being paid by the US taxpayers.
I don’t think so, I think it is a paid operative either working directly or indirectly for the Obama administration.
An ACORN worker perhaps? It sure would not surprise me in the least.
UPDATE: Actual ID—Ellie Light-skinned negro, White House, Washington DC. Perhaps a friend of Harry Reid??!!
Or it is just Rahm himself...
I’ll bet, whom ever it is, was sitting on Astroturf as they penned them.....
Greg Packer
Hoax and Chains.
a well oiled propaganda machine paid for by you and me
Doesn’t seem like a very effective way to get their message out seeing how newspapers are becoming a thing of the past.
In order for socialism to work, the preceding societal infrastructure must be completely destroyed.
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