Great Wal of blogging part two

Rob Port of the Say Anything blog (he's with Pajamas too), tries on his blue Wal-Mart blazer, and does a great job keeping an eye on all the goings-on as the Wal Mart Media Conference winds down in Bentonville, Arkansas.

The mainstream media, epitomized by the New York Times' Michael Barbaro, has a "sneering attitude" of the retail giant, Rob says. I pretty much figured the same thing, but Rob was up close with them, and confirmed my suspicions.

Tom Forbes of Palousitics gets a jab in at Barbaro too, and posted this interesting comment from Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott:

Scott sees no threat to Wal-Mart from online merchants. How do you economically get things like toilet paper, etc. shipped through the mail?

Wal-Mart invited bloggers in addition to mainstream media reporters to its annual Media Conference. When are other corporations going to do the same thing?

For more, read Great Wal of blogging.

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