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Walmart won't stock Jon Stewart's Book

Wed Oct 20, 2004 at 10:40:36 PM PDT

Apparently having nine naked bodies for the supreme court justices is reason enough for walmart not to sell the book.

Nine nudes are a no-go at Wal-Mart.
The giant store chain won't stock Jon Stewart's big best-seller, "America (The Book)," because one page shows nine naked bodies - with the heads of the Supreme Court justices pasted on them.
Add this to the ever increasing list of reasons never to shop at walmart ever again.

The Story
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/244286p-209278c.html

The Walmart Adult Romance Isle
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?cat=21242&path=0%3A3920%3A18797%3A21242

To be fair, I suppose they don't want any of their impressionable youthful customers to see nakedness.

Honestly, in theory I'm fine with Walmart selling what they want.  What disturbs me is when you have 2 or 3 major chains providing the bulk of information to our society it is, in effect, corporate censorship for the vast majority of people too lazy to find alternative outlets.

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