Ya gotta love freeped newspapers!

[jmowreader]

One of the biggest complaints I have about our newspaper is that they're so afraid of losing ad revenue, they won't publish the name of a business that fucked up. Even when it's obvious.

Now check this shit out: Some freeper wrote to the paper last week to complain about "my favorite business in Hope Mills." He took his car in for an oil change and they kept pushing him back, pushing him back, making him wait and wait and wait. So he retaliated: he went to the stationery department, bought some posterboard and markers, made a protest sign, and walked through the store displaying his protest sign until the manager told him to quit. He then said he'd go outside with his protest sign, and they told him they'd call the cops on him.

Now let me ask ya: do the people who put this rag together think people are stupid enough to not realize the only store in Hope Mills, NC, that sells both posterboard and oil changes is Wal-Mart?

[Skittles]

1. LOL.........JMOWREADER

I really did laugh out loud :thumbsup:

[ClintonTyree]

2. I have a LTTE in today's paper........

and in the letter I used Wal*Mart as an example of today's growing "job market". They removed "Wal*Mart" and replaced it with "retail sales". :wtf: The clearly state that they have the right to edit for content and length, but my Wal*Mart dig had a lot to do with the subject of my screed.
I don't see how it could be a legal issue since the "offending words" were written by a reader, not their editorial staff.
Another instance of the media protecting Wal*'Mart. I guess their advertising dollars mean more than truth and public opinion. :eyes:
I know how you feel. That these corporate shit-heads are protected from any type of bad publicity, most of it fully deserved, speaks volumes about our corporate, spend, spend, spend society.

[Greyhound]

8. Sorry for your outrage, but what part of Amerika don't you understand? n/t

[izzie]

3. I think once they stopped a man driving around with lemons on car

I swear I read that years ago. I also recall a man once buried his car in the front yard he was so mad and he called in the papers.I think you could find that but I do not know how. I can see a paper bowing to a big ad company even if I do not go along with it,.I have never known papers not to feel they must be good to the ad people. Paper would have to be very rich to do that. It is also why the news is not liberal and any one with a brain can understand that.

[TlalocW]

4. Huh...

Here in Tulsa we have "Quik-Lube Oil Changes and Stationery," so it's possible it's not Walmart. :)

TlalocW

[jmowreader]

6. That chain hasn't made it to North Carolina, sorry

[Squeech]

5. Hmmm...

One thing I thought I remembered from one of the first articles I ever saw on How Wally World Screws Middle America was that they seldom advertised in local papers. Wal-Mart's idea was that, since they had near-universal penetration of the country, that television's near-universal saturation of the consumer class made more sense for them. But the net effect was to remove money and information from the community, and further concentrate it among the supra-national corporate oligarchy.

If that's true, then your local newspaper is defending a non-client, apparently on the off-chance that it'll become a client some day. Bad deal for everyone concerned, except Wally.

Of course, if Wally does advertise, then it's your standard quid pro quo.

[madinmaryland]

7. Doesnt wally world often have fliers

in the local papers?

I think I have seen them in the past.