And it wasn't "astro-turf." The letter appears in the Greensboro, North Carolina paper T
he News-Record and editor John Robinson
explains today in a blog post how it came about here: They simply asked him to do it. Or not that simply. Anyway, the subject was apt: the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins.
Here is Obama's essay/letter, which the paper put on its front page. Excerpt from Robinson:
We assigned the task to Raleigh reporter Mark Binker, who contacted Sen. Kay Hagan's office to ask them to pass the request to the president. We gave her staff a deadline. (I know he's the president, but newspaper deadlines wait for no one.) Every few days, Mark would inquire about the president's progress. Once he was asked how long the essay could be. Mark said something to the effect of "400 to 500 words, but he's the president of the United States...he could go longer if he wanted to."
We knew we could always cut it.
They did end up editing it slightly.
And it wasn't "astro-turf." The letter appears in the Greensboro, North Carolina paper The News-Record and editor John Robinson explains today in a blog post how it came about here: They simply asked him to do it. Or not that simply. Anyway, the subject was apt: the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins. Here is Obama's essay/letter, which the paper put on its front page. Excerpt from Robinson:
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