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Bloggers are proud to be the mainstream media's fact-checking gadflies, but last week they were the ones being checked. The New York Times reported that recent posts lambasting legislation against Wal-Mart came verbatim from the retailer's p.r. firm. The right-wing IOWA VOICE pleaded guilty but said he was sent "links to news articles [that] we would have found anyway." Lefty media monitor SNARKAHOLIC retorted that the bloggers were "too stupidly egotistical to know the difference between a press release and [an] exclusive source," while politiblog FIREDOGLAKE decried Wal-Mart's "corporate propaganda...
Clinics like the one Hillesheim visited--that one run by the Minneapolis-based MinuteClinic--are expanding rapidly, popping up in Piggly Wiggly supermarkets and such drugstores as CVS and Rite Aid. Wal-Mart Stores, which has nine in-store dispensaries, has announced plans to bring the total to more than 50 this year. The clinics are open to employees as well as the public, allowing Wal-Mart to address two high-profile issues. The first is criticism that it doesn't provide medical coverage to enough of its 1.2 million U.S. employees. The second goes beyond Wal-Mart: the prospect...
...deal announced publicly last week, Harvard offered Charlesview a five acre plot of land—currently home to K-Mart at the Harvard-owned Brighton Mills Shopping Center—and the funding to construct new units there in exchange for their current property...
...Taillac has agreed to take me on an insider's gem-shopping adventure here in Jaipur, where many of the world's colored stones?emeralds from Colombia, rubies from Burma, aquamarines from Brazil?are cut and polished before they are shipped to such stores as Tiffany, Wal-Mart and neighborhood jewelers. Two flights up, there are shoes everywhere?loafers, sandals and dainty, beaded dance slippers. Double doors draped with wilted marigolds lead to De Taillac's atelier. Lit by stark winter sunlight, the room's entire floor is laid with mattresses covered by white sheets. De Taillac...
...year with a record profit of $716 million. The industry can use those deep pockets to stave off concerned lawmakers. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, from January 2004 to July 2005, the cruise industry spent $2.9 million on federal lobbying, nearly $1 million more than Wal-Mart did during the same period. That may be why, according to Congressman Shays, "there's never been any real oversight. Ever." Kelly, for one, is prepared to take on the industry--and endure intense scrutiny along the way--because, she says, "you just keep thinking about the next poor sucker...