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JOHNSTON v. CORINTHIAN TELEVISION CORP.

No. 49565.

583 P.2d 1101 (1978)

Robert W. JOHNSTON, Appellant, v. CORINTHIAN TELEVISION CORPORATION, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

June 13, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry D. Leonard, Blackstock, Joyce, Pollard, Blackstock & Montgomery, Tulsa, for appellant.

Michael R. Ford, G. Douglas Fox, Sidney G. Dunagan, Gable, Gotwals, Rubin, Fox, Johnson & Baker, Tulsa, for appellee.

Harold B. Wahl, Wahl & Gabel, Jacksonville, Fla., L.K. Smith, Boone, Ellison & Smith, Tulsa, for National Newspaper Association, amicus curiae; William G. Mullen, James R. Cregan, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Warner E. Lovell, Jr., A. David Fagin, Fagin, Hewett, Mathews & Fagin, Oklahoma City, for Oklahoma Education Association, amicus curiae.

LAVENDER, Vice Chief Justice:

Robert W. Johnston (Johnston), a coach-physical education teacher in the Skiatook public schools, brought a defamation action against Corinthian Television Corporation (station), a television broadcaster. The alleged defamatory statements were contained in television newscasts that included prepared scripts. The televised newscasts told of a sixth grader, on seeking to rejoin the grade school...

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