t.v. newspeople pretty backstabby in general. plus, they have to smile too much. they lose it.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
they have wake up at like 2am
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
BREAKING: Garrison Keillor says he's been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of inappropriate behavior.— The Associated Press (@AP) November 29, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
what the--!
― omar little, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
ha – I said a couple weeks ago to a friend that Keillor looked like a dirty old man
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
what, you don't remember the infamous memo backlash?
I didn't, so I read up on it. Now I can't get the word "uppity" out of my head.
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
garrison keillor still worked anywhere?
― akm, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
it's just an embarrassment of shadenfreude!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
I thought he was retired? Guess he is now!
― kim jong deal (suzy), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
Minnesota nice
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
Mmm yes
― crüt, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
this is just keillor trying to stay relevant
― akm, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
Harass'n Feillor
― mick signals, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMD7ktUJZY
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
And he wrote a piece supporting Franken yesterday!
https://t.co/YoVFoVXW3i
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
eh he always sucked anyway. Guess I'm too Cuban to get those jokes.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
Garrison Keillor is proof no one called a "humorist" has ever said anything funny ever.— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) November 29, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
A+ mick
― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
Dude was insufferable. Never even remotely understood his appeal.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
another one like Rose & Halperin that surprised me at first but upon some consideration makes sense
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
this is uh one way to handle things
Keillor said he was fired over a story that "is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard” https://t.co/KNCedHGAB6— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 29, 2017
― Simon H., Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
that picture 😳
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
boy if there's anyone who i don't want to tell the more interesting and complicated side of a story than garrison keillor...
― omar little, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
MPR statement
https://www.mpr.org/press/2017/11/29/statement-from-minnesota-public-radio-regarding-garrison-keillor-and-a-prairie-home-compa
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
http://www.press.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/gallery/20150522_130117-2.jpg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
he always gave me tall brian peppers vibes
― omar little, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
pack your bags or bite down on the cyanide pill, lecherous celebritiesschadenfreude sure, but I have to say i get a mild sort of satisfaction thinking about all of the other handsy predatory dudes who thought their fame was protection enough, who are now seeing the writing on the wall & are forced to think “was I inappropriate?” or “are they going to come for me?” or “is my ride over?” etc etceven just that they are now perhaps experiencing some panic & self doubt for the first time
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
i groaned in pain when i read the part in a news story about how he is working on a lake wobegon book AND a memoir of his childhood. they shoot horses, don't they?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
his whole life is a memoir to his childhood and then you read profiles about how he is a shut-in who never talks to anyone and man oh man i don't even know what to think about him. he's kind of a good sherwood anderson character, i guess. or a melville character. The Tiresome Guest.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
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yoooo
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
there is a heavy nostalgia thread with some of the folks mentioned on this thread. the desire to relive childhood memories. woody. cosby. louis. woebegon dude. they remind me of each other. in a jean shepherd kinda way. i can only hope that jean shepherd kept his hands to himself.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
Lasseter as well. reports of him described as "a 13-year old boy in a middle-aged man's body" eeeughkkskskge
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
who here has childhood memories of louis ck
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
my parents wouldn't take me to see Pooty Tang when it came out
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
even just that they are now perhaps experiencing some panic & self doubt for the first time
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:00 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is the most delicious thing of all IMO. delicious and just.
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
take it easy, scott, next you'll be coming for Mr Rogers.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
In plain sight
"A world in which there is no sexual harassment at all is a world in which there will not be any flirtation" -- radio humorist Garrison Keillor at @PressClubDC April 7, 1994... at 31:05 in this video: https://t.co/9ChxtCdZqD pic.twitter.com/nTtJXar3nK— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) November 29, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
hooo boy
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
"take it easy, scott, next you'll be coming for Mr Rogers."
i don't think its necessarily true of him! he created a world for children but i don't remember it being the world of his childhood. i don't really remember him talking about his childhood much at all. he was very much in the present. mindfulness and all that.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
but those other guys definitely wanted us to live in their childhoods.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
the serenity of Mr. Rogers & Bob Ross doesn't scan as creepy to me, more like a reaction to fighting in wars
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
Michael Jackson asked if we'd seen his
xp
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
I'm a bit of a Writer's Almanac stan tbh
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
OK, I really don't understand this (first sentence in The Daily Beast on Matt Lauer):
In perhaps the most shocking media firing in years, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack on Wednesday fired the Today show’s Matt Lauer, the longtime star and mainstay of the news division’s most profitable franchise.
"the most shocking media firing in years"????? uh
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
Lazy "perhaps" tossed in there.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
it's shocking that they fired him that quickly after allegations were raised yesterday, at least to me. but there must be more historical issues at play here, the allegations said "longtime". also nymag or someone has been working on a story about him for months so something was about to come out and they probably wanted to get in front of it.
― akm, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
it's not shocking at all, like i said Lauer seemed like he was gonna get the axe for inappropriate behavior and/or his whole weird vendetta against Ann Curry over 5 years ago. he's like, at the bottom of the list when it comes to shocking firings in the past couple months
xp that's true, but again, it seemed like a long time coming, and from what i've read, there's a ton of more information that they know about but has yet to come out
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
ehhh, it's shocking in that they've been willing to pay him obscene amounts of money and fire co-hosts he didn't like to keep him around
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
I didn't know anybody but me watched anything but five minutes of morning shows in 2017. I guess The Today Show still makes a tidy enough profit to have justified Lauer's obscene salary?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
Part of the deal with 'hosts' is that once the viewing public gets comfortable with a host, they don't like to see any changes. Even new hairdos bother them. So, networks are willing to pay big bucks to keep them happy.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link