Here's why you can't buy the (Pensacola) News Journal at Wal-Mart

[Newsjock]

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050724/OPINION/507240314/1020

By Randy Hammer

You can't buy the Pensacola News Journal at Wal-Mart anymore.

The store ordered us off their property, told us to come pick up our newspaper racks and clear out.

... Some managers at Wal-Mart didn't appreciate a column Mark O'Brien wrote last month about the downside of the cheap prices that Sam Walton's empire has brought to America. We all pay a little less, and sometimes a lot less, at the grocery store and department store because of Mr. Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart.

... Mr. Hart, however, 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. But, you know, Mark's not nearly as ornery as that left-wing rabble-rouser Molly Ivins, whose column the newspaper also publishes. At any rate, Mr. Hart said he wanted the newspaper to get its racks off his lots. But he also said that if I fired Mark, we could talk about continuing to sell the newspaper at his stores.


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[NorCalDem]

1. Kudos to Randy and Mark.

I never shop at Wal-Mart anyway, so I wouldn't miss the paper even if I lived in FL

[applegrove]

2. Phase II. Huge Corporate Hegemony to keep the kids from the

truth. It worked for the Saudi Elites!

[rzemanfl]

3. Three words, tortious interference with contact. They should

fire Mark and let him sue the shit out of Wal-Mart.

[zbdent]

4. And yet Wal-Mart carries Hannity, Klein, and that new book by

Bernard Goldberg (sp) . . . with "screwing" in the title . . .

[silverweb]

5. Bam!

A great editorial, right on the mark!

:thumbsup:

I wouldn't set foot on Wal-Mart property to begin with and I don't live anywhere near Florida, but kudos to Mark and Randy and the Pensacola News Journal.