Walmart Boycotts HuffPo for 'Unfair' Coverage
Walmart–no stranger to bad press–made a rare PR decision to cease all communication with a major news outlet, announcing that it will no longer provide comment to The Huffington Post.
The retailer’s VP of communications, David Tovar, said in a statement that Walmart “made a decision not to participate in Huffington Post articles going forward due to the one-sided reporting and unfair and unbalanced editorial decisions made by Huffington Post reporters and editors”. Huffington Post’s executive business editor, Peter Goodman, accused Walmart of making a “false” assertion, and said he “can’t recall another company cutting off access in this fashion.”
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