shadow cast by MPBN’s action --- Garrison Keillor no longer feels free

A candle has gone out in our society and the chill of its passing sent dark shivers down my spine. I had considered Public Radio – Maine Public Radio – to be a bastion of free thought and expression, that is, until Robert Skoglund aka the humble farmer went missing. Silly as his comments sometimes were, they helped push back a darkening culture of intolerance. .

The shadow cast by MPBN’s action is far greater then this missing point of light. Is there a hand now ready to snuff out other programming that dares cross some line? Where will we be when, say, Garrison Keillor no longer feels free to sharpen his pencil and say for us what we’re all thinking?

With the dark crowding in upon us, now is not the time to be turning out the lights.

Lead on humble – I hope you’ve brought a match.

A P

Cape Elizabeth