Garrison Keillor, a former Minnesota Public Radio host, denounced the head of MPR and said his accuser “was a friend” in a statement denying recent harassment allegations against him. Keillor wrote his statement in response to MPR president Jon McTaggart’s letter to listeners. In his letter, McTaggart explains why MPR cut ties with Keillor and answered questions sent to the station in response to his firing, including ones accusing MPR of tarnishing Keillor’s reputation. “Listeners smelled a rat,” Keillor wrote in his statement, which was sent to HuffPost and published on his website. If they had done so, Keillor wrote, “this all would’ve been avoided.”

Source: Huffington Post January 28, 2018 00:00 UTC