Who hired the kid? They should have moved calvin to HR for background checks and fired the hirer.
Time to cut out our Busch Light love affair
- Thread starter Knownothing
- Start date
Who hired the kid? They should have moved calvin to HR for background checks and fired the hirer.
DMR said they didn't notify Busch. Not sure I believe them, but I'd like to know if Busch discovered it or they were tipped off.
What a mess. Could have been avoided by leaving it alone. But they didn't. Even so, this could have been made better by them apologizing and being transparent about the err in judgment instead of repeatedly defending...errr...."explaining" their reason for doing what they did. Show some tact and humility instead of trying to save the uninformed public from themselves by answering questions no one was asking.
Had to have been tipped off because Busch told him before he went on KCCI so how would they know so early?. I 100% believe the little **** reporter tipped them off. He came from buzzfeed and that site lives off cancel culture. I guarantee he thought he would be some kind of cancel culture messiah from all this.
Your Google was close. There is a standard “principle of limitation” that should have been applied here to limit harm. This involves the act of determining what to report and how to report it, dealing with minors and inexperienced subjects, and withholding information not materially related to the report that could cause people harm. I would say this situation checked the box on all those. But apparently “novelists” these days have thrown that code out the window to get a sharper angle and more clicks. This does not apply to public figures like politicians who are seeking attention, fyi. The response from the public is enough to understand they made a huge mistake in ethical judgment here, and they deserve no defense.
Add on to that the double standard of the tweets of their own reporter, and their lack of due diligence in self regulation and accountability. That would guide them to fire the editor (Carol) and the reporter (Aaron)...if they were a reliable and professional news organization. If they don’t, they really do deserve everything bad that would come their way.
So they fired the reporter but the editor, who approved everything, still has a job? Seems about right, fire the low totem pole person and let the person who ultimately made the decision stay on.
I’m sure the Editor didn’t know, asked Calvin this direct question, and Calvin didn’t tell the (whole) truth to limit any additional damage. This was pretty evident in his reaction on Tuesday night, furiously deleting his old tweets.
Keep the pressure on...Carol Hunter needs fired here. There is no control in that newsroom. Pretty revealing of the education one may receive from the KU School of Journalism.
Agreed, Carol needs to go. If you want to stand behind Calvin as just following standard procedure in doing the background check here as they keep doing then I think Carol as editor is more at fault than Calvin. The editor ultimately makes the decision to publish this info, and publishing it was the far greater sin here than the background check itself. Pack your bags, Carol.
High Life is the best tasting super cheap beer anyway. Just go with that. Colors are closer match as well.
"It's only a standard procedure to do a social media background check if you're trying to destroy someone who is only trying to do good. It is not necessary to do the background checks if you're applying to be a reporter at our newspaper."
-Des Moines Register
-Des Moines Register
High Life is the best tasting super cheap beer anyway. Just go with that. Colors are closer match as well.
Better commercials, too.
https://errolmorris.com/commercials/miller.html
The hardest part of issuing a sincere apology is avoiding the temptation to "explain" your behavior, and just admit to the world you did something very wrong and you are remorseful. It's not easy, as evidenced by the editor of the DM Register.
That's so strange that they had Ragbrai donate instead of the actual DSM Register. At this point the Register has blown it so much they can't really do anything to salvage this mess they created. I think the only thing they could do to save face is donate a crap load. However, I doubt that would even help at this point.
The real question is when does it become Ragbrai sponsored by Hy Vee. Then eventually Hybrai.
