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Walmart, Edelman, And The Future Of Flogs
Reader something_amazing pinged us on our thoughts of the fallout over Edelman, Walmart, PR and blogs. It serves as a nice excuse to vent on this subject so we thought we would share them with you.
Edelman Reveals 2 More Walmart Flogs
Walmart’s PR firm today publicly disclosed two more fake blogs shilling for Walmart and took steps to increase their transparency.
New Word For Corporate Shill Blogs
Dovetailing with the whole Wal-Marting Across America scandal, we thought flogs, for fake blogs, was pretty good.
Post Photog Repays Walmart For RV Trip Expenses, And Other Fallouts
• The Writing On The Wall explains to Laura St. Claire why what she did was wrong.
Blithely Ignorant of Wage Caps, Walmart Cashier Goes ‘The Extra Mile’
More from the Walmarting Across America website that had to be pulled.
How Do You Get Walmart To Pay For Your Family Vacation?
Before the Washington Post made Jim Thresher take down the pictures from pro-walmart blog, Walmarting Across America, BusinessWeek noticed the effort and cried foul. But how did Jim and his girlfriend Laura St. Claire get roped into the affair?
Wal-Marting Across America, Banned Pix Revealed
Walmart’s minions may have pulled down the photographers blog that was a blatant front for Edelman PR. But that doesn’t stop us or you from using the magic of Google cache to see what flackery filled the pages of Wal-Marting Across America.
Wash Post Photog Bitchslapped For Sucking Off Walmart
A Washington Post photographer has been disciplined for taking a cross-country RV trip to shoot photographs for a pro Walmart blog.
Whither Krempasky?
Despite breaking a non-disclosure with a PR rep (above, far left), we slept soundly last night.
Krempasky, Walmart Apologist, Responds To Consumerist Outing
Blogosphere hall monitor for Walmart, Mike Krempasky, took the time to reply to our post disclosing emails we exchanged about a meeting we had several months ago. A meeting he would rather we not discuss, but we did anyway on behalf of the No Respect! podcast. After the jump, his remarks and our ripostes, wherein we ponder the ethics of lying to a PR flack… and whether that’s even technically possible.
T-Mobile Happy Endings!
Last week, David complained about T-Mobile charging him double what he expected. When he phoned the cellphone company, they disputed the basis of his complaint, calling him a liar. We posted the story.
Walmart Is Mad At The Consumerist
Earlier this summer, we did an interview with the No Respect! podcast. They asked us about The Consumerist in general and Walmart in particular. Especially of interest was our meeting with Mike Krempasksy (above, center, tie), who runs the Walmart blog war team at Edelman PR. After a series of disapariging posts, Mike wanted to meet up with us for drinks. He opened the meeting with, “This is all off the record.” The next thing out of his mouth was, “What can we do to get you to stop writing about our companies?” You can hear more about it in this episode of the No Respect! podcast.
Pro-Walmart Art Parade A Rousing Success
By all accounts, it appears Bob Snead’s up with Walmart parade went off very well last Saturday.
For The Record…
• There are two editors at Consumerist, Ben Popken and John Brownlee. That means if you have a hope, a one and only hope, it’s actually two and only hopes. That’s twice the hoping power than never before! When emailing, feel free to address us jointly, as both of us read the tips line. This also explains the profligacy of the first person plural.
