Re: Stores won't display paper ID'ing accuser

s_knight8 wrote:
> http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_2390502,00.html
>
> Colorado's two largest grocery chains are removing from news stands a
> supermarket tabloid that is publishing the identity of the woman
> accusing Kobe Bryant of rape.
>
> Safeway won't sell this week's issue of The Globe, while King Soopers
> and its sister store, City Market, won't place the tabloid near check
> out stands. That means the tabloid won't be on display in the
> 19-year-old alleged victim's hometown grocery store in Eagle.


Sexist censorship is alive and well in Colorado. No news there.  Safeway 
is customer unfriendly as usual.  They pride themselves on having the 
slowest checkers in the grocery business.  Switch to King Supers.

Bob



>  
> "We will not be stocking this particular issue of The Globe," said
> Jeff Stroh, Safeway spokesman. "The Globe is free to print what it
> chooses. But in reviewing the package, the story and the cover, we
> just don't think it serves any useful purpose for us to participate in
> disclosing an alleged victim's name and photograph."
>
> Kroger-owned King Soopers and City Market will sell the tabloid at
> customer-service counters, so it will be available just for customers
> who request it, said Trail Daugherty, King Soopers' director of
> consumer affairs.
>
> "Our job is not censorship," he said. "But from time to time, there
> are things that are not appropriate. But we're not going to deny our
> customers the right to buy that, so we will put it out of view so that
> those who are offended by it don't need to be exposed to it."
>
> Victims advocates applauded the stores' decision, although they
> recognize that the woman's name still is available on the Internet.
>
> "It's bad enough that it only takes a few keystrokes to see this
> woman's name and picture, but to have this woman's identity out in
> grocery stores is outrageous," said Cynthia Stone of the Colorado
> Coalition Against Sexual Assault.