Chill your ****, this is a notice to everyone moving forward.
Aaron Calvin Speaks
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I for one am especially glad Carson didn't go after any kittens! I mean who would post anything like that on social media? And where would someone like that get a job now that the Register has been called out.
Hopefully this prevents the DMR from future attempts of cheaply profiting off the hysteria of call-out culture. They managed to mess up what should have been an easy story. But this is a place that still employs Randy.
I think that kind of research is pretty important in a lot of situations. This clearly wasn’t one of those situations though, he wasn’t aspiring to some leadership position or anything like that.
He was literally not profiting at all off of this, other than publicity for his cause. There was no reason for the Register to call out the attack dogs. However - the attack dog was really sort of just doing his job, as crappy as that job is.
The editor is really where any ire should be directed, as opposed to the writer just doing his job.
Found it funny how they tried to spin it as right wing media backlash when even one of the more liberal leaning media outlets picked up this story too: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/us/carson-king-aaron-calvin-des-moines-register-trnd/index.html
Make no mistake, the way the reporter and DMR staff handled the story offended people all across the spectrum and not just "right wingers." Some of the people I have seen comment or post on their social media about this are anything but right wingers. The story is just more proof how out of touch with reality both he and the DMR are. I will say this, while I still think he's a scumbag that probably outed Carson's tweets to AB he was made the scapegoat and and editor including Carol Hunter who signed off on publishing what he found deserves the same fate he faced.
Make no mistake, the way the reporter and DMR staff handled the story offended people all across the spectrum and not just "right wingers." Some of the people I have seen comment or post on their social media about this are anything but right wingers. The story is just more proof how out of touch with reality both he and the DMR are. I will say this, while I still think he's a scumbag that probably outed Carson's tweets to AB he was made the scapegoat and and editor including Carol Hunter who signed off on publishing what he found deserves the same fate he faced.
Well said. Just another reminder of how low the DMR has fallen in their struggle to avoid being antiquated.
Clearly the DMR was not trying to ruin Carson. And the response to it not motivated by right wing ideology. It’s more just frustration in the DMR’s general incompetence in how to be a modern media medium.
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They're getting death threats and hiring extra security for their offices. This is Iowa. This isn't what we are. Or at least, it didn't used to be.
My thing with “doing his job”, why is it necessary to go back to tweets from 2011? I totally understand going back a year or two but eight? Just stupid and makes no sense. And I know you can search for specific words tweeted by specific accounts and maybe that’s how he found them, but at that point it definitely seems like it was trying to find dirt rather than making a profile
I've also seen a lot of people in the local media comment that they are surprised they do a routine social media check for a story like this.
Shouldn’t dig up a persons past when you have an ugly one yourself. Simple as that
Why didn’t Calvin clean up his twitter account before the article was published? Didn’t he anticipate someone checking his history? Or did he think what he had tweeted was okay?
Right they missed their mark, badly. The search doesn’t seem out of line, but the inclusion of what little they found seems forced.
I have just as much issue on whatever senior editor ran the story.
That’s the call-out culture they jumped in bed with. It’s Iowa, it’s everywhere.
It did get picked up and panned nationally by every walk of life.
Pretty sure there are tools out there that will just pull out all tweets published by any account in a more easy to read format. Wouldnt surprise me if they just run the account through a tool and then browse it, probably takes a few minutes or less.
Cancel culture is huge on the right too. Kaepernick? Starbucks?
It’s a problem across our entire society, and a huge reason that people of ALL political stripes support Carson King.
I think this d bag reporter is hoping to gain points with the far left, but they’re going to eat him up for his recent racist/homophobic tweets and comparing his situation to being a minority.
This kid (Aaron Calvin) is a first rate twat.
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I think it’s telling that through all of this, with everything that has happened, the only person I want to see fired and “called out” or “cancel cultured” or whatever is Randy Peterson.
Carol Hunter's editorial last night pretty much proved how out of touch with reality she is because at no point did she take any accountability for the mistakes by the editors to use the tweets from 8 years ago in the profile story. She basically was defending their decisions while using Aaron Calvin as the sacrifice hoping that by firing him that would be the end to the negative publicity they are getting. Her and many in the media live in their own insulated bubble where they think they can dictate the narrative because they have a bigger platform than you or I do to voice their views.
