A few days ago I wrote about how Georgia Wal-Marts would stop carrying a newspaper because of its critical stories about them. Now, the company has rescinded the ban and will allow the newspaper to remain.

The Ledger reports:

"We did make an error in judgment by removing the papers from our stores," Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Sharon Weber said in an e-mail from company headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. "They should be available in our stores by the end of the week."

Weber declined to discuss any possible disciplinary action against Pensacola district manager Bob Hart, who issued the ban. "There are lots of different ways to disagree with people; this wasn't necessarily one of them," said News Journal executive editor Randy Hammer. "I'm just glad for our readers that they'll be able to get the newspaper where they want it."

It's nice that they decided to do the right thing. The negative publicity in Georgia, as well as some other places, must have been pretty bad — they wouldn't have come out of this very well if they had held to this decision. When will the next instance of something like this occur, though?

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