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Des Moines Register Fires Reporter Who Dug up 'Racist' Tweets on Children's Hospital Donor; Still No Apology
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 2019-09-27 |
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