Wal-Mart's damage control heats up

This is a nice story on the Today show that takes a look at the pre-release back and forth over the upcoming anti-Wal-Mart documentary by Robert Greenwald.

Greenwald points out that Wal-Mart execs declined to be interviewed (which brings back childhood memories of 60 Minutes' scathing exposes on corporate corruption), but Today does have a brief segment on a woman who's worked there for eight years and is still eligible for food stamps.

And what we still get on Katrina's victims from the right is that they were complacent recipients of government aid (The Nation recently reported that average monthly benefits were a paltry $240 per month-- hardly the sort of income that leads to slothful self-indulgence.)

Check it out, folks. It's a good sign that Wal-Mart is spending corporate bucks on damage control. We need to see to it that this documentary gets plenty of attention. This is an issue that those on the left and the right can get behind-- racking up massive profits by sending jobs to China and keeping American workers in poverty is no way for a company to operate.