Chance
09-27-2019, 05:29 PM
From BBC News (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49857358):
An Iowa newspaper journalist who exposed racist tweets by a sports fan at the centre of a viral charity fundraiser has himself been fired after his own offensive posts resurfaced.
Des Moines Register reporter Aaron Calvin has lost his job after his profile of Carson King triggered fury.
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Carson King, an Iowa State University football fan, found unexpected fame on 14 September after his hand-drawn cardboard sign requesting donations for his "Busch Light Supply" was featured in the background of an ESPN broadcast.
After initially receiving around $600 from amused sports fans, the 24-year-old announced the money would be donated to the local children's hospital, causing donations to skyrocket.
Venmo, the money-transferring website that Mr King had cited on his poster, and Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of Busch Light lager, offered bumper donations, in addition to a multitude of Iowa businesses, totalling $1.8m (£1.5m).
It was around then that Des Moines Register reporter Aaron Calvin began writing a feature on Mr King, which was published on 24 September.
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Online backlash against the backlash built even before the Des Moines Register article was published, and Twitter sleuths began uncovering Mr Calvin's own statements that mocked same-sex marriage, domestic abuse and included a racial slur.
In a contrite tweet, he wrote: "Hey just wanted to say that I have deleted previous tweets that have been inappropriate or insensitive.
"I apologise for not holding myself to the same high standards as the Register holds others."
His apologetic tweet was deleted, too.
An Iowa newspaper journalist who exposed racist tweets by a sports fan at the centre of a viral charity fundraiser has himself been fired after his own offensive posts resurfaced.
Des Moines Register reporter Aaron Calvin has lost his job after his profile of Carson King triggered fury.
....
Carson King, an Iowa State University football fan, found unexpected fame on 14 September after his hand-drawn cardboard sign requesting donations for his "Busch Light Supply" was featured in the background of an ESPN broadcast.
After initially receiving around $600 from amused sports fans, the 24-year-old announced the money would be donated to the local children's hospital, causing donations to skyrocket.
Venmo, the money-transferring website that Mr King had cited on his poster, and Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of Busch Light lager, offered bumper donations, in addition to a multitude of Iowa businesses, totalling $1.8m (£1.5m).
It was around then that Des Moines Register reporter Aaron Calvin began writing a feature on Mr King, which was published on 24 September.
....
Online backlash against the backlash built even before the Des Moines Register article was published, and Twitter sleuths began uncovering Mr Calvin's own statements that mocked same-sex marriage, domestic abuse and included a racial slur.
In a contrite tweet, he wrote: "Hey just wanted to say that I have deleted previous tweets that have been inappropriate or insensitive.
"I apologise for not holding myself to the same high standards as the Register holds others."
His apologetic tweet was deleted, too.