Headline Roundup • September 25th, 2019
Busch Cuts Ties With Viral Student After Reporter Surfaces Old Tweets; Reporter Also Found to Have Offensive Tweets
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The Hill
A man who was spotted asking for beer money on ESPN's "College GameDay" broadcast has apologized for racist tweets that were uncovered by The Des Moines Register.
The Register reported that it uncovered two racist jokes in Carson King's previous tweets, noting that one compared black mothers to gorillas and another made light of black people killed in the Holocaust.
The tweets were from 2012, when King was 16 years old.
King told local NBC affiliate WHO 13 that a reporter for the Register contacted him after his initial appearance...
Iowa's largest newspaper is in the middle of a firestorm after publishing a report that dug up old, offensive tweets from a local man who raised over $1 million he then donated to charity.
A piece published by the Des Moines Register profiled a 24-year-old Iowan native, Carson King, who became a TV sensation last weekend after he held up a sign at a football game asking people to donate money to him. He requested that they donate the funds through Venmo so he could buy his "supply" of Busch...
Washington Post
On Sept. 14, an Iowa man named Carson King went viral after holding a sign on ESPN’s “College GameDay” asking for donations on Venmo to pay for his “Busch Light Supply.” When cash unexpectedly poured in, King decided to give it to a local children’s hospital instead of buying beer, leading Venmo and Anheuser-Busch to pledge matching donations.
That’s when Des Moines Register reporter Aaron Calvin set out to profile King — and found two offensive tweets the 24-year-old had sent when he was 16.
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