JBo KO’d

[alarson]

Aaron and the Register **** on a guy raising money for a children's charity. The backlash caused other donors to back out of matching funds for that charity. Carson King got his reputation dragged through the mud over a quote from a TV show when he was a teenager.

Even if it was the one negative thing in the article, it's still the only thing people remember from that article. Many people just assumed he was a terrible person because the Register chose to print that about him.

Intelligent people figured out that Carson King is a genuinely good person in spite of efforts to smear his name to add something edgy to their story.

Doing a completely normal background lookup and including it in an overwhelmingly positive piece is "****ing on a guy"? Please. No one was trying to 'smear his name'. No one assumed he was a terrible person. This is entirely made up ********. Donations went up after that story too, as I recall.

So no, what we actually have here is a bunch of people who hated the register for reasons we cannot get into without going to the cave, who found a reason and an excuse to extract some blood from a company they hate. They made up garbage like "aaron calvin wrote a hit piece on carson king" (which is 100%, factually, not true) and gullible people ate it up.

 

[Gossamer]

If you think I posted that link to get clicks for the site, you fundamentally misunderstand how it operates. My site analytics linked to this thread. There was an Informer article posted in response to a comment about Parizek and his radio activities. The article I posted directly discusses this in considerable depth. I didn't expect anything other than the ad hominem nonsense that was posted. But if you'd read the article I posted, you might have gotten the point. I enjoy discussing what goes on behind the scenes quite a bit, actually; it's nothing like the assumptions that have been made in these forums on numerous occasions now.

translation:

"You're stupid. Read my articles, you imbeciles. If I didn't say it, it's dumb. Read my other article. For the millionth time, I'm smarter than all of you."

 

[alarson]

What's dumb about what I posted alarson? I just posted the consequences of the actions you laid out in your post. There was no reason at all to include a random social media post from years ago into the story. I know Busch pulled their offer to match the funds raised. I'm not sure if they ever changed their mind or not, but the effect of the story was that money that could have been raised for a children's charity were not donated because of the story.
It went national for the goodwill that was being done and then everything went silent after the Register story.

What am I saying that is "dumb" or in any way false?

Well, other than what you said being mostly untrue?

Busch acted ******, but that's on them, not the register. Busch eventually came back and agreed to donate, but then took forever. They seem like a ****** company regardless.

 

[Hawkmi]

 

[Gunnerclone]

Doing a completely normal background lookup and including it in an overwhelmingly positive piece is "shitting on a guy"? Please. No one was trying to 'smear his name'. No one assumed he was a terrible person. This is entirely made up ********. Donations went up after that story too, as I recall.

So no, what we actually have here is a bunch of people who hated the register for reasons we cannot get into without going to the cave, who found a reason and an excuse to extract some blood from a company they hate. They made up garbage like "aaron calvin wrote a hit piece on carson king" (which is 100%, factually, not true) and gullible people ate it up.

Why would Randy Peterson being a pathetic failure of a “sports reporter” need to go to the Cave?

 

[Gossamer]

Doing a completely normal background lookup and including it in an overwhelmingly positive piece is "shitting on a guy"? Please. No one was trying to 'smear his name'. No one assumed he was a terrible person. This is entirely made up ********. Donations went up after that story too, as I recall.

So no, what we actually have here is a bunch of people who hated the register for reasons we cannot get into without going to the cave, who found a reason and an excuse to extract some blood from a company they hate. They made up garbage like "aaron calvin wrote a hit piece on carson king" (which is 100%, factually, not true) and gullible people ate it up.

i'm not gullible, have a degree in journalism from ISU, don't hate the Register and don't believe what was added was germane to the story...especially when the writer was "guilty" of similar types of commentary.

be careful not to put everyone in the same category here...

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Just curious what would you actually boot him for? Has he broke any of the site rules? Yeah the thread got derailed but that almost always happens in one way or another.

Because twins said he should be booted/banned

 

[cyhiphopp]

Doing a completely normal background lookup and including it in an overwhelmingly positive piece is "shitting on a guy"? Please. No one was trying to 'smear his name'. No one assumed he was a terrible person. This is entirely made up ********. Donations went up after that story too, as I recall.

So no, what we actually have here is a bunch of people who hated the register for reasons we cannot get into without going to the cave, who found a reason and an excuse to extract some blood from a company they hate. They made up garbage like "aaron calvin wrote a hit piece on carson king" (which is 100%, factually, not true) and gullible people ate it up.

I know for a fact Busch disassociated with Carson King after the story. And they were in line to match a million dollars of what was donated I believe. Some people donated to spite the Register for their article, but unless Busch came back to the table afterward, money was lost.

There was no reason to include social media posts from a teenager in what should have been a feel good piece on a local guy supporting a charity. He didn't have to give away ANY of the money that was originally venmoed to him. He decided to do that on his own which caused a viral trend of people donating to the charity.
Because the Register felt it was necessary to include social media posts as part of his background, a lot of people stopped supporting him and assumed he was a bad person.

You can support the Register all you want, but that was a terrible editorial decision that had consequences.

 

[CyTwins]

Because twins said he should be booted/banned

Lol I did not!

 

[MustardTiger]

I actually have more info on the subject but I think I'll wait lol

INJECT IT IN MY VEINS

 

[JM4CY]

Doing a completely normal background lookup and including it in an overwhelmingly positive piece is "****ing on a guy"? Please. No one was trying to 'smear his name'. No one assumed he was a terrible person. This is entirely made up ********. Donations went up after that story too, as I recall.

So no, what we actually have here is a bunch of people who hated the register for reasons we cannot get into without going to the cave, who found a reason and an excuse to extract some blood from a company they hate. They made up garbage like "aaron calvin wrote a hit piece on carson king" (which is 100%, factually, not true) and gullible people ate it up.

I think it was really stupid for them to include that bit in the story. Regardless of preconceived opinions of the rag. But those who don’t care for the rag in the first place then had added hatred toward it. Again, it didn’t matter. It didn’t need to be added.

 

[alarson]

I know for a fact Busch disassociated with Carson King after the story. And they were in line to match a million dollars of what was donated I believe. Some people donated to spite the Register for their article, but unless Busch came back to the table afterward, money was lost.

They did, almost immediately.

There was no reason to include social media posts from a teenager in what should have been a feel good piece on a local guy supporting a charity. He didn't have to give away ANY of the money that was originally venmoed to him. He decided to do that on his own which caused a viral trend of people donating to the charity.
Because the Register felt it was necessary to include social media posts as part of his background, a lot of people stopped supporting him and assumed he was a bad person.

Who are these 'a lot of people' you keep asserting to. I saw no evidence of this. Again, i was pretty sure his donations went up after that happened.

You can support the Register all you want, but that was a terrible editorial decision that had consequences.

Even if so, its still blatantly false for people to be calling it a 'hit piece' or 'shitting all over him'.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Lol I did not!

Ok, you didn't come out and call for it. But I think I (and maybe others) took the quoted post below as your subtle suggestion that Aaron be removed.

Only 2 posts before getting banned might be a record

 

[JM4CY]

They did, almost immediately.


Who are these 'a lot of people' you keep asserting to. I saw no evidence of this. Again, i was pretty sure his donations went up after that happened.



Even if so, its still blatantly false for people to be calling it a 'hit piece' or 'shitting all over him'.

It doesn’t matter what you call it, it was a part of the story published that had serious consequences and wasn’t necessary, at all.

 

[IASTATE07]

What was interesting is the Register wanted the reporter to do a simple background check on King, but the Register didn't do a simple background check on their own reporter who had some shitastic tweets.

 

[CYEATHAWK]

What was interesting is the Register wanted the reporter to do a simple background check on King, but the Register didn't do a simple background check on their own reporter who had some shitastic tweets.

Getting this back to topic........maybe JBo should have done some background checking of his own on the people he soaked in the wedding party.

 

[CyTwins]

Getting this back to topic........maybe JBo should have done some background checking of his own on the people he soaked in the wedding party.

Considering one of them was a former Iowa State football player this would have been a solid strategy

 

[Brandon]

Considering one of them was a former Iowa State football player this would have been a solid strategy

A defensive end to boot

 

[CycloneDaddy]

Would love to know what JBo’s last words were before he went night night.

 

[Brandon]

Would love to know what JBo’s last words were before he went night night.

I tried to lip read the video but his mouth is to small