I'll be honest I'm sick of this whole story. I'll be glad when the fundraiser is closed.
All jokes aside, I think it is BS and cowardly that the Register fired this guy. They clearly don’t get it. Their response to being crushed by public opinion based on their choice to highlight dated tweets irrelevant to the feel good story was to fire the reporter who did the work for them for dated tweets. And frankly, the reporter’s old tweets were pretty mild as far as old offensive tweets go.
You’ve lost touch with reality on this one.
If Carson’s tweets were relevant enough include in the article, Calvin’s more offensive tweets were worthy of someone that communicates for a living getting fired. He and his editor should also be fired for just bad business. The DMR as a small town, can’t afford to have people that manage to nearly universally upset their target demographic.
Someone dig through Rsndy’s tweets
You’ve lost touch with reality on this one.
If Carson’s tweets were relevant enough include in the article, Calvin’s more offensive tweets were worthy of someone that communicates for a living getting fired.
I am also not sure anyone should get fired even though I hated this. I think our urge to overreact as a society lately could use a restrictor plate. The register issued an apology and maybe it should have just been left at that. Carson shouldn’t have had to apologize for something he said as a sophomore in high school. We need to get out of the business of trying to ruin people’s lives in 24 hours for mistakes that aren’t that big of a deal in the long run.
I know what will make this week in CF the best ever- if we turn the King/Register/Calvin thing into a political debate.
Yes. Absolutely right wing if you followed any of the outrage that developed on this. A lot of people who were angry about past incidents when adults got called out for their own racist or otherwise ****** behavior suddenly decided to take up this as their cause when the real problem with this one was that it got into things that he posted as a minor.
This guy followed the process he was supposed to from his employer, and got thrown under the bus.
Anyone paying attention has seen that its had those overtones from the start. I mean tucker carlson picked it up.
Alvin has clearly shown what way he'll bend any story. But he is supposed to be part of the objective media. I think the response is more in part of the wag the dog that consumers have experienced.This entire situation is a debacle and there's a ton of blame to go around. The reporter should never have been hired given his history, and that's true whether he'd ever exposed Carson King's tweets or not.
But the online mob that developed in the wake of the Register story was like nothing I've ever seen, and it hasn't let up even now that the reporter lost his job. Even tonight I'm seeing tweets that essentially say, "It's a shame he got death threats, but..." People have lost their minds.
Then backed up and did it againThe Register ran over him with a bus