Pensacola News Journal
The retail giant will no longer sell the News Journal because of
a piece by
Mark O'Brien. "Mark's column really wasn't about Mr. Walton's store, but about Pensacola and how we're becoming a Wal-Mart kind of town, 'cheap and comfy on the surface, lots of unhappiness and hidden costs underneath,'" writes executive editor
Randy Hammer. "I might understand it if Wal-Mart said I ought to fire Mark because what he said wasn't accurate. But that isn't the case. Mark accurately reported that there are 10,000 children of Wal-Mart employees in a health-care program that is costing Georgia taxpayers nearly $10 million a year."
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Earlier: Community newspapers criticize Wal-Mart's PR strategy (NNA)
