Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Matt Lauer, Okay, But Garrison Keillor?



NBC Today Show host Matt Lauer is gone. Lauer was sacked over sexual harassment claims.

Lauer’s co-anchors on Today, the long-running morning show, announced his firing at the start of Wednesday’s programme.

Savannah Guthrie read a statement from the NBC News chairman, Andrew Lack, before then giving her own shocked but steadfast reaction to the news.

Lack said in the statement that NBC had a received a complaint on Monday and a review concluded that it represented a “clear violation of our company’s standards”.

Another little boy who couldn't keep his pee-pee to himself. Just desserts, etc., etc.

But Garrison Keillor? Lake Woebegone's Garrison Keillor?  Yep, Minnesota Public Radio  fired Keillor for inappropriate sexual behaviour.

After confirming the news in an email to the Associated Press, Keillor issued a follow-up statement saying he was terminated over “a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard.” However, he did not elaborate.

MPR issued a statement on its website Wednesday announcing it would “end its business relationship with Keillor’s media companies effective immediately.” That includes ending distribution and broadcast of The Writer's Almanac, a daily syndicated program that Keillor continued to write and produce, in addition to rebroadcasts of The Best of A Prairie Home Companion. 


Jeez, at this rate, who'll be left by Christmas time?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I reckon Woody Allen and Mike Tyson will still be around. They've both survived worse. Then there's the Orange Fart Cloud that still won't have cleared by Christmas time...

Cap

The Mound of Sound said...


I don't know where this ends, Cap. Conventional wisdom has always held that power is an aphrodisiac. The rich and famous get the babes. Perhaps that spawns a sense of sexual entitlement. I don't know but, then again, I never had the opportunity of knowing either. See, it all worked out in the end.

Tal Hartsfeld said...

The "hunters" and "fishermen" are stalking closets, looking for skeletons.

The Mound of Sound said...

It is hard to escape that feeling, Tal.

Anonymous said...

...who'll be left by Christmas time?

Males without balls.
Or those with the balls and who were smart enough to invest in video&audio recording devices.

Anonymous said...

It’s pay back time boys.

Gyor said...

Keillor firing was especially stupid, it wasn't sexual harassment, it was an attempt to comfort someone that fowled up because of the sexual provotive outfit the woman was wearing at the time. It was an accident.

But the witch hunt must have blood. I think when the women of Hollywood eventually come to their senses and realize particapating in this none sense has sent them back a century or more to a new Victorian era (or more so then it already is) and most men adapt the Mike Pence rule in response they will find the cure worse then the disease.

Already they've found that men are afraid to give women CPR for example.