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Retailing Death Star Wal-Mart is launching its own classified ad service. Slate, of course, thinks this could be a good thing for local newspapers, which could theoretically all join together with Wal-Mart to battle the Craigslist menace. Of course, Wal-Mart itself is bad for local newspapers, because it doesn't buy enough ads. Replied Slate, in my imagination: "We always say the opposite of everything, though." [Slate]