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Another Corp Trying to Cash in on Blogging

Posted by Tanja / March 7, 2006

march0706_walmart.jpgWhile this bit of news from the NY Times, may not directly impact Toronto in a hard sense, the issue of corporate infiltration into the blogging community is certainly something to be aware of.

In a mildly overused Titanic-esque metaphor -- Wal-Mart is just the tip of the iceberg.

(image courtesy of the vast collection of anti-Walmart imagery still uncensored on Google.)

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Admin / March 7, 2006 at 03:58 pm
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I was one of the persons who ran into this PR firm. The people that received information from a PR firm were not paid nor did they receive anything other that some links to some stories and at most a sentence or two. Though I received many correspondences, I only created a post about one of them. I do however have many posts about free markets, capitalism, and the such dealing with Wal-mart.

What is missing from this story is the corporate campaign by the anti-capitalist unions against Walmart. If they can't get the Wal-mart employees to unionize they are trying another old strategy of propaganda, regulation accusations, along with the help of the pro-union media (which the NY Times author is a member of). What people fail to realize, is that this doesn't hurt Wal-mart. It hurts the hundreds of thousand of employees trying to earn money for their families.

The biggest oxymoron I have heard is New York Times and ethics. To think none ever receives tips is preposterous. Why do bloogers use h/t.

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