Des Moines Register reporter involved
in Carson King controversy
now out of a job
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: DaddyO,
9/27/2019 7:10:35 AM
A Des Moines Register reporter who wrote about racist tweets posted years ago by an Iowa security guard is no longer employed by the Iowa newspaper because he also made offensive comments on social media.
Editor Carol Hunter wrote in a column posted online Thursday night that reporter Aaron Calvin “is no longer with the Register.” The Register began investigating comments made by Calvin on Twitter after his story about Iowa security guard Carson King sparked outrage. The story profiled King, who gained national fame after he held a sign seeking beer money during an ESPN show and then promised to donate the more than $1 million
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Frenesi1 9/27/2019 7:26:52 AM (No. 190813)
The editor didn't have to run the story. The Des Moines Register is a rag and now everyone in the state can see it for what it is.
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Poster #1 is correct. It’s been garbage for a long time. A convenience store, I used to frequent gave a free copy with a qualifying purchase. The cashier offered me a free copy one day. I told him that I didn’t read it because it was full of lies. His look was priceless.
A few years back, they did a hit job on paramedics and drug diversion. It is a problem. My issue was their level of honesty. I was familiar with one case that they wrote about. They withheld information to make their case. The guy was a paramedic but he was also an RN. He diverted narcotics, not working as a paramedic but working in an ED as a nurse. They left out the fact that he was a nurse and the fact that he was working in a hospital.
Easy, fast rule - never trust the DSM Register. Hate their damn bike ride clogging up the roads too !!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 9/27/2019 8:18:53 AM (No. 190855)
This is one of the most disgusting incidents I have ever seen. Imagine, this punk twerp reporter digging into this college students background in the first place. And then Budweiser cancelling their matching donation because of those seven year old tweets! That editor Carol Hunter who approved this in the first place should also be fired. And for all of you Bud drinkers out there, change brands. Stay away from any product with Anheuser-Busch on the label. I am truly angry over this!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
maryann4629 9/27/2019 8:50:34 AM (No. 190893)
Well, any future employers of this reporter won't have to scour social media to figure out why he shouldn't be hired; a simple Google search will bring up all of the info needed to make a decision.
BTW, #3, A-B didn't cancel their matching donation, just any future association with Carson King.
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Weasels at Bud should be ashamed. Besides, their products aren’t the products of choice of the offended group.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TJM 9/27/2019 9:01:35 AM (No. 190910)
As a part of his severance, I wonder if the viewspaper gave him a coloring book and some crayons so he could comfort himself
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There are several papers that don’t even make good catbox liners! The Des Moines Register is up against The Red Star and Tribune in Minneapolis along with the Chicago Trib. that we flyover Rubes avoid!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
AltaD 9/27/2019 9:55:24 AM (No. 190988)
He was fired for the wrong reason in my opinion. He and the person(s) who approved the hit piece should have been held accountable for their decision to turn a good deed into some sort of racist-twitter-scandal.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NWPA 9/27/2019 10:09:11 AM (No. 191017)
That dumb reporter should remember this: When you're pointing one finger at someone, there are three pointing back at you! My daughter heard this on the John Ritter TV show, "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter".
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Payback! How refreshing!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Right Time 9/27/2019 10:34:20 AM (No. 191057)
The tweets by the 16 yo were never racist. They were maybe anti-PC and in bad taste. But, hey, he was a kid.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RTC60 9/27/2019 10:37:39 AM (No. 191062)
"Hoist by his own petard" doesn't mean what I thought it meant...which I never knew until this year. I always thought it had to do with swords, until--at 71--I got curious enough to look it up myself and found out it litterally meant being blown up by your own bomb. So it means somebody who gets harmed by his own intent to harm got "hoisted" even if he didn't get fragmented. Not surprising, Shakespeare was involved.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bhkat 9/27/2019 11:20:49 AM (No. 191106)
Make them live by their own rules. I love it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jackie 9/27/2019 1:05:49 PM (No. 191240)
I do not believe the College kids will take this lightly either. Des Moines register is nothing but a liberal rag anyway I have not looked at it for years...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
judy 9/27/2019 5:37:19 PM (No. 191485)
Name one credible newspaper!
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Kid raises over a million for a hospital and all the reporter cared about were tweets when he was 16. "Hoisted by your own petard" (whatever that is).