Following the success of plays including Yellow Breck Road and Ellen and Rigby, writer Gerry Linford returns to Liverpool’s Royal Court with the heartwarming comedy-drama Haunted Scouse.
In January, an anonymous person supposedly named "Ellie Light" launched a massive PR campaign on behalf of President Barack Obama.The goal appears to have been to infiltrate as many newspapers as possible to spread pro-Obama propaganda as if the press needed the help. Light's plan was simple enough: write a compelling letter to the editor, pretend to be a concerned reader in the region, and persuade the paper to print her liberal blather. For three weeks, editors of mainstream newspapers big and small allowed Light to spread Democrat talking points under the guise of small-town grassroots without anyone bothering to double check her story. The content of her letter was also quite simple:
A revival of<strong> </strong>Caryl Churchill’s female power play has yet to settle; Paul and Prue become song-and-dance naturals; a fab four get ready for bed; and who can say no to this Rodgers and Hammerstein reinvention
With merciless invective and scatter-gun put-downs, Jonthan Larkin’s comedy is black to the point of cruelty in a bleak but uplifting play about after-hours queer culture
named winston. letters get into papers without any scrutiny. what about it, rich, should a publisher, editor of a national magazine, should there have been more attention paid, or is it just one of the things that slipped through the cracks? it slipped through the cracks. i don t think many news organizations, this is evidence of it, pays much attention to who writes the letters. it s not the most important feature. why can t they google the name? they are all being laid off. but i think ellie wright had a plan for getting caught. he was planning a book or his life as an imposter. if we get rid of all of the investigative people let s not start on the editor s page. let s get rid of letters to the editors. when it comes to trusting your source of news, polling