Habituees of this space may remember an Aug. 20 posting: The 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not doeth stories on buying cars for less in the United States.

Well, it turns out that Victoria News editor Keith Norbury got whacked even though the automotive dealer in question didn't threaten sturm und drang.

More from Sean Holman's Public Eye Online:

... In a subsequent email interview with Public Eye over the weekend, Dave Wheaton Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd. dealer principal Dave Wheaton added, "I never did complain about the article until I was asked (about it by a news group representative) and it was several days after it had run. My opinion was solicited and I gave it to them in an honest, straight-forward manner, in a meeting, at their request, in my office. They phoned me. I never called them.” ...

In an earlier interview, Mr. Wheaton also stated he hadn't and wouldn't pull any advertising with the news group as a result of the story