Storer Broadcasting Co. v. Peek

Jordan, Chief Justice.

On the morning of August 5, 1980, M. Randall Peek filed a complaint against the Storer Broadcasting Company, d/b/a WAGA-TV, alleging that the “defendant did broadcast three programs on July 30, July 31, and August 1,1980 which were highly critical of plaintiff, and the said three programs were deliberately and wilfully malicious and calculated to injure the reputation of plaintiff and cause his defeat for re-election to the office of District Attorney of the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit,” that “the plaintiff... has a right to equal time to respond ... pursuant to…