[Devil_Anse]

Exactly. Sounds like the NE's local counsel, or American Media Enterprise's (isn't that the parent co. name?) counsel, and/or the storeowners, heard from a lawyer threatening a lawsuit. Whoever "publishes" defamation can possibly be sued. Pulish in this case = spread it around.

[Devil_Anse]

Of course, pulish was misprint, meant to say publish.