Eddie Garcia's Letter to the Herald News

The characterization of the relationship between Mike Herren and myself in the HN's reporting of this matter is incomplete.

There were times when I felt threatened by him, that is true.

But there were far more times when he was a good friend to me. My children have stayed overnight at his house.

I was aghast at seeing an internal WSAR memo in the Herald News, and you were out of line to print it.

I feel you were free to use any of Keri's words, because she released them to you, but you had no right to use mine.

Those are my words. I'm hearing rumors that some feel that that email was not written by me. I assure you that it was.

And you omitted a critical sentence:

This may well be because Michael Herren has been noncompliant with any admonitions he may have received, I obviously have no way of knowing this.

This angers me greatly. This omission allows the reader to presume that I am accusing the Karams of inaction with respect to the issues I raised. Once they received the email, they acted expeditiously and appropriately to resolve the situation that I brought to their attention, and I am satisfied with the actions they took, and am contemplating no further actions of any kind.
This is irresponsible reporting on the part of this newspaper. I am now commenting because I feel I have no choice but to unslant the reporting to the best of my ability.
Mike and I have had serious differences. Those differences are far outweighed by the positive aspects of the relationship between us.
If the identical incidents had taken place between me and a coworker weighing a hundred and fifty pounds less and five inches shorter, you would have had no letter to print.
I can't speak to anyone's perspective but my own. And what I have to say is Mike was a friend before this all happened, and he is a friend now.
Just because I've been afraid of him a couple three times, doesn't mean I'm afraid of him ALL the time.
This is radio. People have Type A personalities. Mike goes to bars and screams to his friends about what a rotten SOB I am. Me, I write emails. 8/10ths of my social life is online.
I want you to know that several name bloggers in town are going to receive this, and I can count on at least one of them to post it exactly as I've written it.
I'd encourage you to do the same.

-Eddie Garcia

Signing Off...

Breaking news from Keri Rodrigues' blog!

Signing Off...

So, here's the big news.I have resigned my position at WSAR.There will be alot more to say in the future, but for now, I wanted those of you who care to know that I'm no longer with the station.I'm sorry I was not allowed to say goodbye -- I really wanted to. Ownership had told me I was no longer allowed to blog, so this space has not been updated in a while. I'm not even sure if anyone reads it.Please feel free to post your reactions -- if you have one.Keri