Media Spotlight I

Brain-damaged woman at center of Wal-Mart suit (National)
This is a sad story about Wal-Mart suing a lady who got in the accident that left her mentally handicapped from a truck that sideswiped her.
Wal-Mart paid her medical bills because she was an employee, but there was a clause that said if the employee sues for money then Wal-Mart is entitled to sue her for the medical bills they paid.
So, Mrs. Shank sued the trucking company who hit her for a million dollars, and after paying the attorney fees she ended up with approximately $500,000 in a trust fund for her care to which Wal-Mart promptly sued her for.
To make matters worse she is suffering from having only short term memory, so
every time she wakes up and asks about her son who is fighting in Iraq it is as if she is hearing for the very first time that he died about a week after her accident.

Wal-Mart: Brain-damaged former employee can keep money (National)
Well, for once a story ended with a very happy ending indeed. Wal-Mart decided to overturn their decision and allow Mrs. Shank to keep the money in her trust fund for her future care. Bravo Wal-Mart! It may have had something to do with Kieth Olbermann running the story continously on his show as the "Worst persons in the world" and said he would keep running it everyday until they atoned. Thank you Kieth! You are one of the last responsible journalists that is on top of all "political shake-ups" and "corperate gluttony" and we thank you for it! If only there were more journalists out there like you, America might have been saved its future care like that of Mrs. Shanks.