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Article: Wal-Martians. (Editor's Note).(Wal-Mart's impact on American culture)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- June 2, 2003
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THE EXPOSURE OF JAYSON Blair, poster child for bad journalism, has made it acceptable to question the rightness of anything reported by the formerly sacrosanct New York Times. So let's talk about the article, generously reprinted on the front page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, warning of the undue sway Wal-Mart now holds over American culture.
The article by David D. Kirkpatrick also gave other discounters--Target, Kmart, Costco--credit for having "bent American popular culture more toward the tastes of their relatively traditionalist customers." But it was clearly the Bentonville Behemoth that was most worrisome to the critics, named and unnamed, who fear ...