Wal-Mart Watch: Taking Liberties with Freedom of the Press

Wal-Mart rethought this and later had to apologize.

LISNews.com | Florida Wal-Mart Pulls Newspaper, Wants Journalist Fired: "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."