[US] Reporter who exposed racist tweets no longer at the paper after readers revealed his offensive tweets

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Reporter who exposed racist tweets no longer at the paper after readers revealed his offensive tweets | CNN

The Des Moines Register reporter who exposed a man's racist tweets from 2012 is no longer with the publication after readers revealed his own controversial social media posts.

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(CNN)The Des Moines Register reporter who exposed a man's racist tweets from 2012 is no longer with the publication after readers revealed his own controversial social media posts.

"We took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers' trust," Executive Editor Carol Hunter said in an opinion piece, responding to local outrage to the original story. It is unclear if the reporter quit or was fired.

Aaron Calvin, a reporter for the Register, worked on a profile on Carson King, a 24-year-old manwho raised more than $1 million for an Iowa children's hospital after a request for beer money during a televised college football program.

And on Tuesday, after Calvin discovered racist tweets King posted seven years ago, readers surfaced tweets on Calvin's social media that included derogatory language against black people, gay people, same-sex marriage and women, The Washington Post reported.

"We're revising our policies and practices, including those that did not uncover our own reporter's past inappropriate social media postings," wrote Hunter. "That reporter is no longer with the Register."

 

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[ShaunSA]

Typical virtue signaler

We have plenty here on MyBB

 

[Temujin]

 

[Ancalagon]

While funny, it shows everything that is wrong with modern cancel culture.

Like, one wrong tweet and you are sent to the concentration camps. One wrong tweet and you lose your job.

And you're never forgiven. Nobody calls for you to be forgiven, and even in cases where you KNOW you have tweeted something offensive, you still are willing to read somebody's old post history in the hopes that you find some poo nuggets.

I wish news editors would just refuse to allow articles on what somebody said on twitter. Like who cares?

 

[Lucas Buck]

While funny, it shows everything that is wrong with modern cancel culture.

Like, one wrong tweet and you are sent to the concentration camps. One wrong tweet and you lose your job.

And you're never forgiven. Nobody calls for you to be forgiven, and even in cases where you KNOW you have tweeted something offensive, you still are willing to read somebody's old post history in the hopes that you find some poo nuggets.

I wish news editors would just refuse to allow articles on what somebody said on twitter. Like who cares?

The weird thing about the whole story is that they could have written a positive article detailing how he has changed since then, by asking him to share what his views were back then compared now.

The best anyone can do is apologise and people can get over it or not, I don't think that the power to "forgive" should be in the hands of the tweeting masses.

 

[Ancalagon]

The weird thing about the whole story is that they could have written a positive article detailing how he has changed since then, by asking him to share what his views were back then compared now.

The best anyone can do is apologise and people can get over it or not, I don't think that the power to "forgive" should be in the hands of the tweeting masses.

But that is the point. Crowds don't just happen by accident - they are collections of individuals. These individuals refuse to forgive anyone that is guilty of a transgression.