Tonight, PBS’ Frontline is going to take a close look at Wal-Mart and how it is shaping our economy. The broadcast, entitled “Is Wal-Mart Good For America?,” includes this scene:

“It’s 6 a.m. at a basketball arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the faithful are gathering.

Inside, Thomas Schoewe, Wal-Mart’s chief financial officer, works the crowd. He’s like a cross between a high-school football coach at a pep-rally and a preacher at a religious revival. ‘Your company,’ Schoewe calls to the crowd, “was the first company on the planet to report one quarter of a trillion dollars in sales, $256 billion!¦ Do you know what that is, $256 billion? That’s one IBM, one Hewlett Packard, one Dell Computer, one Microsoft, and one Cisco System. And oh, by the way, after that, we got $2 billion left over.’

The crowd cheers.”

To read more on the broadcast, see also a report on National Public Radio