The coverup shouldn' t stop there. It also should cover the covers of National Enquirer, Star, World and other checkstand tabloids using headlines and photos pandering to every imaginable obscene interest.
Better yet, relegate Cosmo and those other rags to the isolated magazine section and stop forcing them on shoppers--especially impressionable children--who must use the checkstands.
A few years ago, supermarkets and other mainstream retailers went even further by caving into Bible pounders and banning Playboy, Penthouse and other skin magazines from any shelf space--citing dubious grounds of "community taste."
Yet the same retailers saw nothing objectionable about tabloid cover headlines and photos describing and illustrating persons born with multiple rectums or eight-year-olds giving birth to "aliens."
Sheer corporate hypocrisy. Cover or get rid of tabloids at checkstands. Please. (16 JANUARY 2000).
