National Newsagent magazine July/Aug 92 "Aust Consolidated Press has been concerned for some time by newsagents making public statements that they are under some kind of compulsion by their company to stock and display People and The Picture magazines."
"The company policy of ACID and Network Distribution (ed note: two major smut pedlars) states that if newsagents are conscientious objectors to magazines they distribute, and do not wish to sell or display this product, then we do not insist that they do." "This particularly applies to The Picture and People magazines and their accompanying posters. No newsagent has any reason to believe that this is not our policy."
Quotes from Richard Walsh, publisher of People and The Picture magazines and Chief Exec of Kerry Packers Australian Consolidated Press (ACID). Published in National Newsagent magazine, the Journal of the Newsagency Industry of Australia.
If your newsagent insists they have to peddle and display smut, they are not telling you the truth!!!