re: letter to editor from Atlas fifth-grader Elena Johnson, entitled. "Kids should read The Press, too."

I think kids should read the newspaper. That's what a lot of newspapers try to get kids to do, so they must have a good reason, right? If we don't get used to it now, we may not do it in the future. The newspaper tells about our local news. It's good to know what's going on around our town and neighboring cities. If we didn't, we may not know about the new laws that had been passed or something else that's big. I think kids should start to read our local paper, The Press -- Elena Johnson.

Honest Abe: Transparent newsroom? Should they have run a note that this letter was written by Sholeh Patrick's daughter, Editor Mike Patrick's stepdaughter?

Rainbow Sparkle Pony Angel: that's one of the most pathetically hacktacular things I've ever seen. It's not even the subterfuge...one can expect that out of a small town rag the quality of the Mess...but using your kid that way. Sad. Really. Although the only reason the painfully obvious and incredibly limited Sholeh Patrick gets to hack out a column is who she is married to. Her columns are dredged off of MSNBC.com and fashioned like C+ work in a Current Events 101 class. Lame. The kid actually writes better than her mom, I must say.

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