May 13, 2005
Inflammatory
A mistake, apparently:
PHOENIX (AP) - Wal-Mart is apologizing for a newspaper ad featuring a photo of a book-burning in Nazi-era Germany.
The ad, published in a northern Arizona newspaper by a political action committee the company helped fund, ran as part of a campaign opposing an ordinance that would effectively prevent Wal-Mart from opening a Supercenter in Flagstaff, Ariz.
The company was writing an apology letter Friday to the Anti-Defamation League in Arizona and will run an apology ad this weekend in Flagstaff’s Arizona Daily Sun, which carried the original ad, said Daphne Moore, director of community affairs for Wal-Mart.
… The ad showed a historic photo of people throwing books into a large fire. A swastika is clearly visible near the center of the photo.
The text below the ad reads: “Should we let government tell us what we can read?”
This from the company that bans magazines like Maxim and hides the covers of Cosmopolitan.
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There is a VERY important difference between a company deciding not to carry some reading material (I can get it somewhere else with comparative ease), and the gubmnt banning it completely (i.e. dramatically increasing the cost of obtaining it if I really want it). I don't think you really want to equate Wal-Mart with the gubmnt, do you?
Posted by: The Eclectic Econoclast at May 23, 2005 9:23 AM
