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| Des Moines Register Fires Reporter Who Dug up 'Racist' Tweets on Children's Hospital Donor; Still No Apology |
| 2019-09-27 |
| Can't imagine why the media is so despised [PJ Media] The Des Moines Register is even more unpopular than the New York Times, if you can believe it. They drew everyone's ire by running a hit piece on some poor guy, Carson King, whose viral sign to raise money for more beer accidentally raised a million dollars and he decided to give it all to sick children. As Jim Treacher reported earlier in the week, you have to destroy that guy. To recap: A guy donated $1 million to a children's hospital, so his local newspaper dug up some bad tweets from when he was a teenager. He did a good thing and gained national attention for it, and our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the press had to put him in his place. The Register received huge backlash for this and online investigators discovered that the reporter who dug up the tasteless tweets had several of his own that were far worse. Naturally, everyone demanded he be fired. They eventually fired him but not before they went back to writing profiles of Carson King, to everyone's horror. First they drag the guy through the mud, then they write about him like they didn't do that to him in the first place, for clicks. Earlier today they published an article titled "Carson King raises more than $500,000 for children's hospital amid controversy," and then never bothered to say that they themselves created the controversy! (Note: I would normally link the source but in this case I don't think they deserve the clicks on the back of that man they tried to destroy, do you?) |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #8 Mind you, I don't trust anybody who drinks Bud (light or otherwise). |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-27 14:09 |
| #7 Let me know when the Des Moines Register file for bankruptcy and go out of business. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-09-27 13:46 |
| #6 The Des Moines Register - Iowa's answer to the Boston Globe. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-09-27 13:22 |
| #5 Our second civil war will be waged on Twitter and in what remains of the media. It will involve virtual, not physical, assassination or maiming, as in the first civil war, of some 1/10th of the total adult white male US population, plus another million or so additional perpetrators of thoughtcrimes and other offenses against Right Thinking. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-09-27 11:23 |
| #4 In some movie I saw years ago (and still watch from time to time) a guy who was hung up on Purity of Essence triggered doomsday. Just sayin... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-09-27 11:07 |
| #3 Yep - Tosh 2.0 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-09-27 10:38 |
| #2 I believe the tweets were lines from a comedian, Daniel Tosh, who once had a tv show on Comedy Central. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-09-27 10:33 |
| #1 some bad tweets from when he was a teenager. As I understand it, the bad tweets consisted of: (1) Comparing black women to gorillas Betcha it wasn't all black women, but a specific one. (2) Making light of black people who died in the Holocaust. I wasn't aware that any black people died in the Holocaust. So I assume he made fun of some Wakandan's ignorant barking. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-27 10:17 |