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