Hannah Montana Essay Fraud
 

Sponsor takes Hannah Montana tickets away from girl who won them with false essay
Dallas Morning News
Dec. 29, 2007 01:45 PM

GARLAND, Texas - A 6-year-old girl who won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay falsely claiming her father died in Iraq isn't going to the show after all.

The contest's sponsor, a store chain named Club Libby Lu, withdrew the prize Saturday and awarded it to another contestant. It didn't identify the new winner.

“With this decision, we hope to revive the intended spirit of the contest, which was designed to make a little girl's holidays extra special,” Club Libby Lu chief executive Mary Drolet said in a statement Saturday.

Officials of the Chicago-based chain surprised the girl on Friday at a Club Libby Lu store in mall in this Dallas suburb. Club Libby Lu sells clothes, accessories and games for young girls.

The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/art...hannah-ON.html


Dang. Is it really that deep?

From the title, I thought this was going to be a thread about the actress who plays Hannah Montana plagiarizing a school essay. To which I would have replied: Why is this news?

Although in light of what this thread is really about, I'm going to reply with: Why is this news?

Especially since it is several weeks old now.

DaffyKD

Same reason why Brittany is news.

She won the tickets by saying her father died in a roadside explosion in Iraq. I'd like to know what the contest rules though before I comment.

I'm assuming that since she's 6, she had to have a parent or guardian's consent to enter the contest. So where was her mother when she was submitting the essay?

Mom was helping.....here is her apology. She didn't think that she would get caught...


http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Musi...rss_topstories

It said an essay, though it didn't say it had to be true. It's pathetic that mom had daughter write a "tug your heartstrings" lie of an essay to get the tickets, but was probably technically w/in the rules. Kudos to them for not giving it to her because of a technicality though.

While the rules did not say the essay had to be true, I think it's really awful for someone to make something like that up to get concert tickets when real families are having to deal with the loss of their family members every day.



And that lady needs to stop shaving her eyebrows too. It makes her look like an alien.

You know, the mother is a calculating bitch.

BUT, I feel sorry for a six-year-old who thought she won something only to have it taken away because her mom is a dumb fuck.

As far as I am concerned, the company sponsoring the contest is just covering its ass for its own stupidity. The essay was either 1) NOT the best one, but they gave it to her just because of the political angle or 2) was the best one they received and she won it fair and square.

They should have done their homework to make sure they were giving the prize to someone who had a true essay if they were so concerned about the validity of the essay. They are at fault, too.

They should not have to check out the stories. But, we all know there are lying sacks of shit in this world.

And, although the spirit of the contest might have been broken, the rules were not. She won. Maybe under a veil of impropriety... But, she won according to the rules.

Like I said, I feel sorry for the little girl who thought she had won this contest. She only did what she was told by her mom. But, in the end, she's the one paying for this.

In regards to the essay, I don't think it could have been THAT good. That has been in the news a lot b/c its in the DFW area. The news aired a public apology from the mom not too long ago, and they had a camera shot of the "essay" submitted by the girl.

It was like 2 sentences. Something like "I'm really sad because my dad was serving the country and died in Iraq a couple of weeks ago".

When I was school, an essay was a few paragraphs long :)

See, that's what I've been thinking. The company saw a good pr angle, gave her the prize, and got its ass handed back when it all came out.

^^^ I agree.
They wanted to use that "essay" to show how "nice" they were and it did backfire since it wasn't true (which they never specified). And then they couldn't go onto news and tv outlets and boast about their good deed so they outed her. Granted, I know that the mom should be punished, but at the end of the day, the kid suffers & Hannah Montana tickets are hard to come by. We all know that wasn't an essy...it was barely a sentence. She shouldn't have won based on a 2 sentence sob story either way.

The mother was truly at fault. She's teaching her child to lie in order to get things dishonestly. Good for the contest promoters for taking away the tickets. At least the child will learn that there are consequences to dishonesty. A hard lesson, but an important one.

An English teacher speaks . . .
 

In my class, an essay had to be at least 5 paragraphs long (intro, body, conclusion). A paragraph had to contain at least 3 sentences. So, near as I can tell, she didn't even write a paragraph.
(I always told my students who complained of having to write a specified amount that they did not yet have "poetic license" - they had a learner's permit which required rules (!))