Conservative blogs reprint Wal-Mart's PR emails

More evidence that conservative bloggers get an email every morning telling them exactly what to write that day:

"Brian Pickrell, a blogger, recently posted a note on his Web site attacking state legislation that would force Wal-Mart Stores to spend more on employee health insurance. 'All across the country, newspaper editorial boards — no great friends of business — are ripping the bills,' he wrote.

It was the kind of pro-Wal-Mart comment the giant retailer might write itself. And, in fact, it did.

Several sentences in Mr. Pickrell's Jan. 20 posting — and others from different days — are identical to those written by an employee at one of Wal-Mart's public relations firms and distributed by e-mail to bloggers."

"Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in P.R. Campaign" [New York Times]