50 years of NPR!!! Love it or hate it.... when did you start listening to their programs??

[betsuni]

30. I just read Garrison's new memoir.

He was fired over the phone by the CEO of MPR, a less than two minute call.

"Viking-Penguin has cancelled your book, the Washington Post has dropped your column, your upcoming tour is cancelled and all of your dates from the lecture agency. Your daily show The Writer's Almanac, which you did gratis for twenty-five years, with a poem a day, young poets, old, newcomers, classics, to millions of radio listeners, is gone, in the trash. It was like what happened to Studs when Ed Clamage called him a commie, but I could also see a rough justice behind it: all my life I'd used subterfuge to avoid uncomfortable situations, and it had worked, and now someone else's subterfuge had defeated me.

"What grieved me was the silence. Bill Kling called me and other friends, but none of the hosts of national talk shows where I'd been a guest in the past, and none of the station managers for whom I'd done benefits, nobody. ... The University took my picture down from its gallery of distinguished alum."

Very sad and disappointing.