{"id":134423,"date":"2017-12-07T08:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=134423"},"modified":"2017-12-07T08:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:16:30","slug":"keillor-mpr-wrong-in-his-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=134423","title":{"rendered":"Keillor: MPR wrong in his dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-133841\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Keillor2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Keillor2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Keillor2-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Keillor2-312x175.jpg 312w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Keillor2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Garrison Keillor says Minnesota Public Radio shouldn&#8217;t have dismissed him last week without fully investigating what the radio station has called &#8220;multiple allegations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jon McTaggart, CEO of MPR&#8217;s parent company APMG, told employees Wednesday that the allegations against the 75-year-old former &#8220;A Prairie Home Companion&#8221; host covered an extended period of time. He provided no details.<\/p>\n<p>In an email late Wednesday, Keillor told the Associated Press MPR has made an &#8220;enormous mistake &#8230; by not conducting a full and fair investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An MPR spokeswoman told AP last week that two people made complaints against Keillor, though only one claimed his behavior was directed at her.<\/p>\n<p>Keillor&#8217;s attorney, Eric Nilsson, said Thursday that he knows of only one person making allegations against Keillor. Nilsson says McTaggart must &#8220;set the record straight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Garrison Keillor says Minnesota Public Radio shouldn&#8217;t have dismissed him last week without fully investigating what the radio station has called &#8220;multiple allegations.&#8221; Jon McTaggart, CEO of MPR&#8217;s parent company APMG, told employees Wednesday that the allegations against the 75-year-old former &#8220;A Prairie Home Companion&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134424,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134423\/revisions\/134424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}