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It's all about Wal-Mart

Published Wednesday, November 17, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

When Frontline, CNBC and South Park all devote special episodes in the same month to the expanding empire that is Wal-Mart, you know we're supposed to be paying attention.

Of course, if we had read the Los Angeles Times last November, we would have learned enough about Wal-Mart to award the newspaper the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Oh, wait. Somebody already did that. Why weren't the rest of us paying attention then? When are we going to start?