{"id":1608,"date":"2005-07-25T20:52:54","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2005-07-25T20:52:54","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:52:54","slug":"milwaukee_talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Talk Show Host Faces Court Date for Weblog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/metro\/jul05\/343537.asp\">Derrick Nunnally:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barring a late settlement, talk-radio host Charlie Sykes faces a court date as a defendant in a libel suit this week.<br \/>\nThe plaintiff, Spanish Journal editor Robert Miranda, sued Sykes in January over a November post on Sykes&#8217; Weblog on the WTMJ-AM (620) site that alleged Miranda had helped foment a protest at a 1991 pro-Gulf War event in which several speakers were pelted with small objects. Miranda wasn&#8217;t in Wisconsin at the time of that protest, which Sykes described in his essay as an &#8220;an example of the assaults on free speech on university campuses.&#8221;<br \/>\nAlthough Miranda&#8217;s original requests for a court order mandating Sykes publicly apologize, undergo sensitivity training sessions and make diversity presentations to middle and high school students are no longer in play &#8211; a small-claims court doesn&#8217;t have that authority, it turns out &#8211; Miranda said the suit, which now requests the small-claims maximum of $5,000 in damages, will serve as a forum in which Sykes&#8217; &#8220;journalistic integrity will be questioned,&#8221; among other matters. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derrick Nunnally: Barring a late settlement, talk-radio host Charlie Sykes faces a court date as a defendant in a libel suit this week. The plaintiff, Spanish Journal editor Robert Miranda, sued Sykes in January over a November post on Sykes&#8217; Weblog on the WTMJ-AM (620) site that alleged Miranda had helped foment a protest at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}