Hmm...Garrison Keillor, or NPR...
In whom do I place my trust? Which of the two has a proven record of
years of caring for ordinary people, gently telling their stories and
softly chiding them when they do those "Human" goofs. Should that
long history be my measure of whom I might trust? Or should I embrace
the position of a public servant with years of slowly knuckling under
to the power of the Almighty Dollar, causing this public servant to
err on the side of caution, for fear of being "uncaring"?
Well, just as Bill Cosby broke my heart, so NPR has broken my trust.
Not because they shit canned Garrison Keillor, because they did the
same thing to Bob Edwards, yanking him out of his position as news
anchorman after almost 25 years of steady dedication to giving the
public straight news, but I am not going to continue placing any part
of my trust in any person or any business that caves into the power of
the dollars from the American Empire, and lies about it! Garrison
Keillor's explanation is a straightforward one, especially if
confirmed by the woman in point. NPR on the other hand, has failed to
inform its listening audience...the American People, that Corporate
Capitalism is slowly dragging NPR to the Right of Center, causing
their "news" to become untrustworthy. And so, just like Bill Cosby,
NPR has broken my heart by misrepresenting itself, by blowing smoke up
our noses and when we are confused, by dragging us into bed.
Carl Jaarvis
On 1/28/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My Response to MPR
By Garrison Keillor, Star Tribune
27 January 18
The MPR committee's letter to listeners was in response to a blizzard of
listener anger, all of it richly deserved, after MPR expunged shows that
people loved. And listeners smelled a rat. Listeners know me far better
than
MPR management does and they know I'm not abusive. Management, when it
heard
a complaint back in October, did not have the good manners to call me, an
employee of fifty years, and sit down with me face to face and talk about
what had happened. If they had done the simple courteous thing, this all
would've been avoided.
How to respond to so many untruths in a short space? The woman who
complained was a friend, had been hired as a freelance researcher, an
employee of mine, not MPR's, working a job that she did from home by email.
I hardly ever saw her in the office. Our friendship continued in frequent
emails about our kids and travel and family things that continued to my
last
show and beyond. She signed her emails "I love you" and she asked if her
daughter could be hired to work here, and so forth. She attended the last
show in L.A. She still features "A Prairie Home Companion" prominently on
her Facebook page.
Her complaint was drawn up by her attorney, a highly selective and
imaginative piece of work. MPR depended on the complaint, it never spoke to
me or to the complainant.
If I am guilty of harassment, then every employee who stole a pencil is
guilty of embezzlement. I'm an honest fiction writer and I will tell this
story in a novel.
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