TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION

I've been wanting to riff on the automotive bailout plea for a while. (To get started, here is a good, balanced post by Eric Karjaluoto to stew on.) As an industrial B2B marketing blogger, I think the subject is appropriate to talk about here.

Mitt Romney might want you to let Detroit go bankrupt, but David Pecker doesn't. Earlier this afternoon, the American Media chief sent all of his employees a fact chief supplied by the GM and intended to build support for an auto-industry bailout. American Media publishes the National Enquirer, Star and a number of fitness titles; it used to own two automotive magazines, Auto World and MPH, but folded both.

Here's Pecker's email: