February 02, 2006

Dover City Council will crush us all!

For the past few days I've been chronicling the tale of Matt Donegan (that's him at left, I don't know why I just didn't take his Myspace photo before), fired Dover Post reporter.

Donegan was fired for his personal Myspace blog, where he wrote things like "That gym was a god damned zoo. I can't believe most of those animals are allowed out of the house. There was a mini-brawl between a couple of black fans (95% of them were black), some kid said he was going to steal my camera and half of the people there smelled like pot."

Now, Matt says he's not a racist, and, you know, whatever. I'm sure he has a lot of black friends. But last night, NBC 10's lead story was about Matt's plight. Yes, the lead story. I think even Matt would admit it was a slow news day. (And, NBC 10, please don't say "This is a story you're hearing first on NBC 10" when it's not true. It's unfair to the News-Journal, who broke it. Update: And again today at 5 p.m., they do it again. Well, not surprising, of course.)

Anyway, Matt Donegan proved last night he's about as good as Drew Rosenhaus at PR:

"That's preposterous," Donegan said when asked if he was a racist. "If you can't separate that work environment from what I do on my own blog, then you're a moron. Everything written there was meant as a joke, and somebody doesn't take it as a joke, then I'm sorry, but that's your problem, not my problem. If you don't like it, don't read it."

Indeed! And, really, what's an Internet story without some sort of conspiracy theory:

I think I've caused enough of a ruckus for one day. It's time to sleep. I'm unemployed, but I still have to wake up at 8 for a radio interview. Tomorrow will be even bigger than today. I can feel it. I can't believe how many of you found me after the 11 o'clock news deal. Top fucking story! I just hope my profile is still here tomorrow. If I disappear from here, know that the Dover City Council had something to do with it. Regardless, I will not be censored. I can't be stopped now. They've created a fucking Godzilla monster, a real Mad Dog.

Wow. I didn't know that Dover City Council had that kind of power. Hmm. Rupert Murdoch must be the president of it or something.

Fired Reporter Says Blog Meant As Joke [NBC 10]
Earlier: PWD on Matt Donegan

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February 01, 2006

Your fired Delaware blogger update

Yesterday, the news broke that a reporter from the Dover Post was fired for his blog postings. And, well, he's updated his blog with what happened in this week's edition of the paper:

In a truly spineless move, the newspaper I was fired from erased my byline from all of my stories in today's edition, even deleting my photo credits. They also completely pulled my fluffy yet gonzo Super Bowl etiquette story, likely because it was obvious who wrote it. More people than ever will be reading that rag this week, so I was a little surprised at their strategy.

Whoo! Now, a little bit of searching led me to a few other places that mentioned the story. And, as usual, they're amazing. So I'm going to play Michelle Malkin and just cut and paste and cut and paste and cut and paste until I have a full semblance of a post! You ready? I'll let you do all the jokes yourself, since, really, it's pretty easy. All of it is after the jump.

Continue reading "Your fired Delaware blogger update"

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January 31, 2006

Myspace blog gets Del. reporter fired

I was a little surprised to hear some blog-related news out of Dover, the town with the weekly newspaper the Dover Post. I mean, I hadn't thought of Dover since my friend left a job there. Do they even have computers?

I kid, I kid. It turns out, that they have a blog brouhaha on their hands in Dover. A reporter for the Post, Matt Donegan, was fired by editor Don Flood for comments he wrote on his own Myspace blog.

"I didn't know anything about it," Flood told The News Journal of Wilmington. "I looked at the site, and sure enough it was there. Immediately afterward I verified with [Donegan] that it was his site and this is what he had written," Flood said. "And at that point I fired him... [some of the entries were] extremely offensive and just contrary to what we believe here."

Oh, and what were those entries? Let's go through a list of entries I combed through said Myspace blog of one Matt Donegan:

• "Thanks for that one, Doctor [King]. Now, because of you, I feel like I've been backed over by a black pickup truck today. Further, because of your life, it would be considered a racial crime for me (aka 'The Man') to shoot up a house full of black people who don't know how to keep their car stereos, or voices, at a normal tone in a residential area in the middle of a black night.... It's that kind of dick move by black people that turns all other people into racists. I bet James Earl Ray was woken up by black people yelling pointlessly in the streets the night before he killed your civil rights leader."
• "But hey, what else is new? This God awful feeling that has stayed on me all day like semen after a mid-afternoon root-pulling session."
• "I just typed a blog about my upcoming trip to wine country - the Finger Fucking Lakes - and this no good, cunt-faced, motherfucking whore bucket MySpace deleted it." (Editor's Note: Ahh, the sign of a true blogger -- a post about deleting a previous posting attempt.)
• "At least I inherited the mighty fallace [sic] gene, and therefore have no need for computer knowledge, or smarts of any kind for that matter."
• "This year, I: Started to really hate my job; didn't get laid nearly enough (not by good looking girls, anyway);"
• "That gym was a god damned zoo. I can't believe most of those animals are allowed out of the house. There was a mini-brawl between a couple of black fans (95% of them were black), some kid said he was going to steal my camera and half of the people there smelled like pot."
• Bonus Myspace profile excerpt: "About me: I'm a reporter, like Superman, but I'm also a Superfreak! Want to find out more? You don't? What a jerkoff! While you're here, try reading my blog. Most of the entries are about horseshoes or cum shots, but read it anyway."

Oh yeah, I didn't see this, but the News-Journal wrote that one of his clubs was the "National Organization for Men Against Amazonian Masterhood" -- or NO MA'AM. Of course, you may remember that from Married With Children.

I don't think I need to tell you that Matt Donegan is officially the bestest blogger ever. He says his blog was meant to be funny, and with all that cursing and constant attempts to get laid via print, how could it not be?

Donegan wrote just yesterday on his blog that he was fired for "exercising freedom of speech." An excerpt:

Foul language? You bet your fucking ass there is foul language. But racial slurs? Bashing the handicapped? Come on, people. It's sickening to think that you can't so much as joke about someone different than you nowadays without someone pinning a KKK hat on your head and calling you "Massa." Seriously, lighten the hell up already. Political correctness is killing society, slowly but surely.

Of course, someone getting fired for what they wrote on their Myspace page is about the stupidest thing ever. (All around. I think someone getting fired for what they wrote on Myspace makes us all stupider.)

And, hell, is one of my interests really that big pun rap where he goes "I'm sick/ You couldn't measure my dick/ with six rulers"? You bet your ass it is. So maybe that's a bad example.

I previously said that Daylin Leach shouldn't get killed for having a stupid unfunny blog online and I don't think Matt Donegan should, either. But, obviously, if you write that the Spectrum's haunted house was "darker than Martin Luther King Boulevard in Camden," and you think nobody's going to get pissed if they read it, then, well, you're stupider than a room full of honkey dropouts.

Editor's Note: It is NOT the official position of Philadelphia Will Do that black people woke James Edgar Ray up the morning before he assassinated Martin Luther King. Philadelphia Will Do believes he was awakened by a rooster.

Reporter fired for blog posts [The News-Journal]
Matt Donegan's blog [Myspace]
Sept. 6, 2005: Your Daylin Leach wrap-up

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