Time to cut out our Busch Light love affair

[CYdTracked]

Good will come of this, he started getting donations pouring in again about 15/minute after this came about.

I've already seen people posting today that the Rag's story has motivated them to donate to Carson's cause now. The sad thing is the DMR will probably try to spin that to benefit them in some manner like "well see what we did, we helped him raise even more money than before because of our story!"

 

[Clonefan32]

I just can't get over the DMR's handling of this. Carson, whose crisis management team probably consists of his mom, handled it perfectly. Get out in front of the issue to the extent possible, make an unconditional apology, accept full responsible, and start turning the narrative back towards the positive.

The DMR, who is full of professionals who should have a clue how to handle something like this, tried to impute a justification on something unjustifiable. "Standard background checks" and "we have to make hard decisions about what is news" is utter nonsense in this case. Who in their right mind would read that and say "yep, this oughta nip this whole thing in the bud. People will surely see our side of it." Anyone with a brain knows that would not be well received.

Then, on top of all of it, you put the reporter's name out there without having the reporter and all available staff scour his social media for offensive posts. It literally took the internet sleuths all of 2 minutes to find all this stuff on him. How in the world do you not have the foresight to know the moment the reporter's name is mentioned that everyone would be trying to find something similar to what was dug up on Carson.

Pure idiocy.

 

[Clonefan32]

I've already seen people posting today that the Rag's story has motivated them to donate to Carson's cause now. The sad thing is the DMR will probably try to spin that to benefit them in some manner like "well see what we did, we helped him raise even more money than before because of our story!"

We had not donated until last night but felt compelled to do so due to this whole debacle.

 

[ZB4CY]

I called the Register and cancelled my subscription just now. They tried to defend themselves by saying their Editor responded to the initial story. Doesn't excuse the fact that the initial story was complete garbage.

Their subscriber number was dipping last night. I watched it go down about 1500 people in 20 minutes.

 

[2forISU]

Their subscriber number was dipping last night. I watched it go down about 1500 people in 20 minutes.

Where do you see this?

 

[capitalcityguy]

I called the Register and cancelled my subscription just now. They tried to defend themselves by saying their Editor responded to the initial story. Doesn't excuse the fact that the initial story was complete garbage.

The response is no better, so there is that too.

 

[Cy$]

Moral of the story is to not post stuff on social media.

Kidding....kind of

 

[rpcyclone2013]

Their subscriber number was dipping last night. I watched it go down about 1500 people in 20 minutes.

The crappy part of cancelling is that you have to call them. I wasn't able to find the option online. 1-877-424-0225.
I've also deleted all my shortcuts, apps, and will not click on any register articles I see on Twitter or FB.

 

[Tailg8er]

What's the DMR number to cancel a subscription? I don't even have one, but want to call to let them know I won't be getting one.

 

[rpcyclone2013]

What's the DMR number to cancel a subscription? I don't even have one, but want to call to let them know I won't be getting one.

1-877-424-0225

 

[CascadeClone]

What news room said, "let's dig into the past of the random guy for the purpose of...?"

All of them. Literally all of them. It's called muckracking for a reason.

To some extent, that's a good thing, to expose bad hidden things. But having some semblance of "prosecution discretion" would be nice - not every little tweet is a capital offense. Unless of course, you are an irrelevant little pinhead looking to be a big dog.

 

[jbindm]

I just don't understand how the editor could argue that his old social media posts are newsworthy or relevant to the story. What does that accomplish other than to tarnish or hurt someone who did a good thing? Nobody was putting the kid on a pedestal as some kind of saint, so why the need to tear him down? And AB's response to cut ties was equally disappointing. Personally, I suspect they just didn't want to pony up any more cash than they already had and this was a convenient way out for them. Lousy journalism by the Register and lousy PR by Anheuser Busch.

 

[Walden4Prez]

I just can't get over the DMR's handling of this. Carson, whose crisis management team probably consists of his mom, handled it perfectly. Get out in front of the issue to the extent possible, make an unconditional apology, accept full responsible, and start turning the narrative back towards the positive.

The DMR, who is full of professionals who should have a clue how to handle something like this, tried to impute a justification on something unjustifiable. "Standard background checks" and "we have to make hard decisions about what is news" is utter nonsense in this case. Who in their right mind would read that and say "yep, this oughta nip this whole thing in the bud. People will surely see our side of it." Anyone with a brain knows that would not be well received.

Then, on top of all of it, you put the reporter's name out there without having the reporter and all available staff scour his social media for offensive posts. It literally took the internet sleuths all of 2 minutes to find all this stuff on him. How in the world do you not have the foresight to know the moment the reporter's name is mentioned that everyone would be trying to find something similar to what was dug up on Carson.

Pure idiocy.

Professional what? "Journalists"

Hilarious.

 

[CtownCyclone]

Seeing quite a few big-time Twitter accounts commenting on this story. Register really stepped in it on this. Idiots.

 

[CtownCyclone]

What's the DMR number to cancel a subscription? I don't even have one, but want to call to let them know I won't be getting one.

Do it!

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

This all went nuts in the last 2 hours when people were going to bed. Just wait until the people who slept during this wake up to the news in the morning.

Can confirm that is was complete pandemonium when I got up this morning.

 

[CtownCyclone]

 

[cycloner29]

I gave up AB products when they aired those stupid Bud Light commercials about no corn syrup. Yet another reason to why I stopped consuming their products.

Nice to know that the Rag doesn't even do "routine background checks" on their own employees. Better check RP's and Birch's closets!!

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

The irony...the Rag is getting exactly what they wanted.

LOL no they aren't...

 

[Walden4Prez]

LOL no they aren't...

National news and hits. Once they fire these people in a public way, in 3 weeks no one will remember this, just like everything else in this world.