of writing." In 1997, the journalist Rick Horowitz wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the editorial gave journalists an excuse to not write their own essays around Christmas: "they can just slap Francis Church's 'Yes, Virginia,' up there on the page and go straight to the office party." The editorial came under attack in 1951 by members of the Christian Reformed Church in North America in Lynden, Washington, who criticized it for encouraging Virginia to think of her friends as liars. See also List of Christmas-themed literature Notes References Bibliography External links Full text of the editorial with digital image from the original newspaper. From the Newseum, Washington, DC WNYC New York December 1937 radio interview with Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas WNBC-TV New York News Reporter Gabe Pressman's annual Christmas Eve report on Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus, 12/24/2011 1897 in the United States 1897 documents Christmas television specials Quotations from literature Santa Claus Santa Claus in fiction Christmas essays 1890s neologisms Christmas in New York (state) Opinion journalism