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Better Retailing is exclusively reporting on attacks in newsagencies against certain newspapers. A planned protest campaign targeting newsstands by activist group ‘Media Revolution’ has newsagents and major retailers on alert. Described as ‘Media Liberation Day’, the group urged people to disrupt the sale of national newspapers in stores on 5 November by covering up their front pages. Organiser Liz Pendleton told other activists: “We’ve got this direct action you can get involved with straight away You can print out these cover stories and you can put them on top of newspapers in newsagents and supermarkets to call out malignant media.” It reminds me of the shopper we had who offended by the birthday card with a small balloon penis on the front – they would come in and cut the penis off all the cards. While I have sympathy for those concerned about the concentration of news media ownership, protests like this against small business retailers are unfair.
