kathleen writes: “Florida’s Pensacola News Journal will no longer be sold at the local Wal-Mart.
Editor Randy Hammer noted:”
Some managers at Wal-Mart didn’t appreciate a column Mark O’Brien wrote in June 2005 for the Pensacola News Journal about the downside of the cheap prices that Sam Walton’s empire has brought to America…
The Wal-Mart manager said he and his stores couldn’t tolerate a newspaper that would print the opinions of someone who was as mean and negative as Mark O’Brien… and he wanted the newspaper to get its racks off Wal-Mart lots. But he also said that if I fired Mark, we could talk about continuing to sell the newspaper at his stores.
Advertisers have pulled out of publications critical of them, but this sure takes things up a notch. Compare to the suspicious circumstances surrounding the closure of a Wal-Mart store where workers voted to unionize. Wal-Mart’s also been in LISNews for censoring books and practicing Godwin’s law.
Update: 07/27 05:51 EST by B:Walmart Now Says: “We did make an error in judgment by removing the papers from our stores, They should be available in our stores by the end of the week.”
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