The "real story" of what happened with the Iowa Reporter and old tweets

If you don't remember, this is the dbag reporter who dug up old tweets of the kid who raised all that money for Iowa's Children's Hospital. According to the article, it was everyone elses fault he got fired but his own. SMH, I guess the word accountability means nothing now a days.

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At first, it was the student who raised the money himself, Carson King's fault:

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In his statement, King included a more recent tweet of his that denounced racism. I recognized this tweet when I read it later—I had sent it to him on Facebook Messenger, to show him that I believed the crude tweets I’d found were not fully representative of his beliefs.

I don’t believe that King set out to implicate me, but because he preempted my forthcoming profile, people believed that I intended to impugn his character. Immediately after he released his statement, angry messages began to come in to the Register’s Facebook page.

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Then, it was the Editor of the Des Moines Register's fault:

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At the request of an editor at the Register, I tweeted an apology: I had not “held myself to the same standard the Register held others.” But I immediately regretted the statement. They were words I did not believe—I was never in the business of holding others to any kind of a moral standard.

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Now, it was the owner of the papers fault, due to a lack of a union:

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I wish Gannett would have taken into further consideration how I’d represented myself as an employee. But rather than trust the character I’d established in the newsroom and work with me to help address the anger, misunderstanding, and misinformation in the community, they vindicated bad-faith attacks and allowed disingenuous arguments to influence their decisions.

There was no union at the Register. Had I been a union member, I believe I would have been able to more effectively advocate for myself.

In the end, I believe I was scapegoated by a corporation trying to preserve its bottom line.

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And last. but certainly not least, it was Barstool Sport's fault:

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The death threats were frightening. But even more hurtful were the attacks on my character and humanity. These were propelled both by ordinary readers seemingly ignorant of the facts and, more insidiously, by reactionary journalists and the outlets that published them, specifically right-wing demagogue Mike Cernovich, Breitbart, and Barstool Sports. Local television stations as well as national platforms such as CNN and the Washington Post helped to spread the false but palatable narrative established by these outlets—that I had sought to vilify King for his tweets.

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TL;DR: it was the world's fault, not his own