This is great news! While little shocks me these days, the charges
against Garrison Keillor have never set well with me.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/15/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It would be interesting to know the real story behind this story.
Miriam
Minnesota Public Radio, Garrison Keillor Settle All Outstanding Issues
By Garrison Keillor's Website | Press Release
15 April 18
Garrison Keillor and Minnesota Public Radio have reached an agreement
reopening public access to thousands of past shows of A Prairie Home
Companion and The Writer's Almanac.
"MPR wants fans of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac to
have
free access to the thousands of wonderful performers and artists, musicians
and poets whose work is included in those archives, and we want your fans
to
have free access to the decades of terrific material you created," MPR
President Jon McTaggart wrote in a letter to Keillor on April 5. A full
copy of the letter is available at www.garrisonkeillor.com.
"What the agreement means is that I won't sue MPR for damages and they will
allow A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac archives to be
available to the public again," commented Keillor. "And it means that we
move on to more interesting things, namely writing stories and creating a
podcast. Compared to sitting in mediation, writing is one of life's great
pleasures."
Within the next 15 days, MPR will restore public access to the thousands of
past A Prairie Home Companion shows and broadcasts of The Writer's Almanac.
The public can access these shows by way of a link at
www.garrisonkeillor.com. After three years, Keillor and his production
company expect to relocate the archives to another platform. MPR also
agreed
to reopening The Writer's Almanac Facebook page and to provide Keillor
monies owed him under prior contracts.
MPR blocked access to the archives in November after learning of
allegations
by a woman who had been a freelance writer with Keillor's production
company. Keillor said that MPR's reaction to the allegations was
disproportionate. The settlement agreement doesn't provide for any payments
to the woman or her colleague, a former producer of the Chris Thile show,
who claimed he was let go because of his knowledge of the woman's
allegations against Keillor.
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