Reporter Who ‘Outed’ Carson King Now Booted From Paper Over His Own Skeletons

If you haven’t been keeping up with the Carson King drama, let me QUICKLY fill you in:

Basically this guy made a hilarious sign that asked for donations to his Busch beer fund. It quickly went viral, Busch caught on and made a can with his face on it, and he ended up donating a HUGE amount of money for a children’s hospital. Like a million dollars huge.

All warm and fuzzy stuff, but here’s where it gets bad.

Some a-hole reporter with way too much time on his hands found out King tweeted some unsavory stuff… when he was SIXTEEN. He is, of course, now the enemy, and Anheuser-Busch has announced they never want anything to do with him again.

AAANYWAY – things just got NUTS – because that a-hole reporter just got canned:

We’ve heard from hundreds of you about our Carson King coverage. We took appropriate action because there’s nothing more important than having readers’ trust. https://t.co/hnfCsjL8gD

— Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) September 27, 2019

They say he “left.”

The Washington Post begs to differ:

Reporter who outed racist tweets by viral fundraiser leaves Des Moines Register after his own offensive posts surface https://t.co/x40sBtSVdE

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 27, 2019

WELL WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT.

When a Des Moines Register reporter on Tuesday helped expose racist tweets posted years ago by a local man who used his viral Internet fame to raise millions for a children’s hospital, it inspired a vicious backlash against “cancel culture” — and the reporter himself, who critics soon found had his own history of offensive posts.

The Register announced late Thursday that the reporter, Aaron Calvin, no longer works for the newspaper. The move comes as the Register has hired extra security under a deluge of threats from people furious about its decision to pursue the story.

Carol Hunter, the Register’s executive editor, announced Thursday that, after the backlash, the newspaper was reexamining both its procedures for reviewing employees’ social media accounts and its internal policies for how to report on the backgrounds of profile subjects.

“We’re revising our policies and practices, including those that did not uncover our own reporter’s past inappropriate social media postings,” she wrote in a column. “We took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers’ trust.”

You’d think that if you make a habit of looking for dirt to destroy people’s lives with, you’d make sure there’s NOTHING on you, first.

What a freaking moron.

Speaking of freaking morons, SHAME on the Des Moines Register. I mean… wtf, y’all? I hope you’re proud of yourselves. Real “journalisming” means arbitrarily “cancelling” people for crap they said when they were barely old enough to drive.

Gross.