Garrison Keillor fired from NPR

As a current resident of Minnesota, Keillor's cultural impact on the state is pretty deep. A lot of states have stereotypes, but most of them grow naturally out of folklore. As several of you have noted, most of the ones about Minnesota are either molded by or wholesale inventions of Keillor's. Personally, I find his work clever but dry.

As for the veracity of his statements, he's on the record (from the 90s) as comparing sexual harrassment to harmless flirtation, saying "If there were no thieves, there would be no entrepreneurs." I'm not down with that.

However, if Keillor's story is true, which is a big if, I suspect all of this is an MPR executive finding a way to get out of an expensive contract with someone who has a reputation for being a diva and is delivering increasingly diminishing returns.

 

This is only beginning

 

The CEO can't survive, right? If she were male, would it have taken this long?

 

Balanced story. Some allegations that need to be addressed and some ardent defenders, too.