State v. Carpenter

OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Juneau resident Karen Carpenter wrote a letter to a Juneau radio station complaining about the Tom Leykis Show, a national radio talk show broadcast locally by the station. The station forwarded her letter to Tom Leykis, who read it on the air while making derogatory and sexually explicit remarks about Carpenter and making other comments that allegedly inflamed listeners and encouraged them to contact or confront Carpenter. Carpenter sued Leykis and his producer, Westwood One, for defamation, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress,…