It all began with a handmade sign asking for beer money.
Then it was discovered that Carson King, the 24-year-old whose sign reading"Busch Light Supply Needs Replenished" went viral after it appeared on ESPN's"College Game Day," had written some racist tweets as a teenager.
Yet much of the resulting online backlash was not been directed at King's old posts. Instead, Calvin and The Register received most of the social media ire.Aaron Calvin deserves being pilloried on social media. His editor certainly demonstrated poor judgement. The Des Moines Register as an entity deserves being pilloried because it holds a guy who raised over $1 million for charity to a higher standard than its own employees.
Hunter also said that the paper was"revising our policies and practices, including those that did not uncover our own reporter’s past inappropriate social media postings." As for Calvin, Hunter wrote that he"is no longer with the Register." He said that he had no recollection of the posts but"in re-reading it today eight years later I see it was an attempt at humor that was offensive and hurtful," King said.
He also said that he was"so very, very thankful for the generosity of the thousands and thousands of people who have donated and continue to donate for the Stead Family's Children's Hospital." King' apology post amassed 8,000 likes on Twitter and the responses appeared supporting and forgiving. However, Anheuser-Bush the maker of Busch beer, made it clear in an email to ABC News that it would no longer work with King.
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