Hannah Montana essay winner a fake

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Hannah Montana essay winner a fake

I think the girl should get her tickets... she wrote the winning essay...

If she wants the tickets badly enough to do that, she obviously wants the tickets reaaaaal bad

Well she needs to learn it's not okay to lie. Not getting the tickets will teach her a lesson.

I don't think she deserves them. Pretty odious thing to do...but a little beyond the grasp of a six year old. Makes me wonder...how involved was the mother?

I find this disgustingly petty. Not the "lie" that was told by the girl in her essay, but the fact that they are considering taking her (quite fairly won) tickets away. Surely it was the quality of the essay itself, and the supposed truth of the story it told, that was most important? If the entire essay was a fabrication, perhaps she should be congratulated for her creative writing skills? For f**k's sake, it was just a stupid contest. Let her have her tickets.

This should be fairly simple; was there a stipulation in the "rules" that the essays must be "100% true"? If not, she wins, and anyone who whines about that needs to be beaten over the head with a lesson in creative writing. There is nothing in the definition of "essay" that requires it to be non-fiction. The writing of fiction is an art form; it is not "lying". WTF?!

Good for a six-year-old to so nicely grasp the concepts behind creative writing. She used her imagination; and she won; good for her.

Good fortune,

- Icarus makes stuff up to entertain and uplift all the time... Am I "lying?"

That's what I thought. I read another article over the same thing, and the mother said that she didn't realize it had to be true. It seemed to me that they must not have made that very clear then, if they stated it at all. And besides, she's six. If you're going to call foul, do it before you reward the kid; it's not really fair to take it away from her.

I can see how people could call it lying though. Most fiction generally bears a disclaimer ('The events, places, and characters in this work are fiction developed by the author. Any resemblance to any real events, places, and/or people is unintentional and coincidental') somewhere towards the beginning. Without that, I suppose someone could make a case for it being lies.

Judging from the other article (I'll see if I can find it), the mother was very involved, possibly to the point of fabricating the entire idea herself. The daughter wasn't allowed to comment when reporters asked her about it.

This seems like more of a PR/Marketing ploy. I mean, why else should they shell out x-hundred dollars on plane tickets and makeovers? The owner stated,"We regret that the original intent of the contest, which was to make a little girl's holiday extra special, has not been realized in the way we anticipated." Sentiment [Think The Secret Garden ] was the key, and her mother found it. If they got away with it, imagine how much confidence they have on sob stories. If this story breeched in the military communities, it would play with several emotions of the many families involved in the service.

But they didn't. The store took authority and became the good guy. Much like when Oprah revoked "A Million Little Pieces" from her book club. Ratings then soared (I put mine in for a while ).