{"id":16139,"date":"2016-08-09T22:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T02:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16139"},"modified":"2016-08-09T22:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T02:24:56","slug":"beck-woe-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16139","title":{"rendered":"Beck Woe in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/under-the-radar\/2016\/08\/glenn-beck-boston-marathon-bombing-226841\">Politico coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glenn Beck is on trial for repeatedly accusing a Saudi national of being the &#8220;money man&#8221; in the Boston Marathon pressure cooker bombing.   He continued to repeat the charge even after Homeland Security said there no evidence supporting that.<\/p>\n<p>The standard of defamation is much different for public figures than it is for private individuals.   Beck had made the claim he could be reckless in his accusations because the Saudi guy was a public figure &#8211; but the only reason anyone knew his name was Beck&#8217;s accusation.  The judge threw out Beck&#8217;s twisted logic.<\/p>\n<p>The judge ruled that Beck&#8217;s staff must disclose their sources &#8211; two currently unnamed Homeland Security officials.  Journalists have some protectons against disclosing sources, but the one staffer who says he talked to homeland security wrote his notes on a post it note, which he threw away.<\/p>\n<p>This is gonna cost a lot of money.  It sounds like Beck will be spending much of his remaining time on Earth sitting in court rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico coverage Glenn Beck is on trial for repeatedly accusing a Saudi national of being the &#8220;money man&#8221; in the Boston Marathon pressure cooker bombing. He continued to repeat the charge even after Homeland Security said there no evidence supporting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glenn-beck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16141,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions\/16141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}