Friday, February 22, 2008
Blog on Blog Ruling
Posted By Japhet Weeks on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Shasta County Superior Court Commissioner Gary Gibson has rejected a request from a reporter at the Record Searchlight in Redding seeking a restraining order against a former friend turned blogging nemesis.
Beth Doolittle-Norby's blog,
"No Phat Pink Chicks," pokes fun at
journalist
Christy Lochrie's reporting, looks and personality, according to an
AP report
, which is why Lochrie wanted it to be taken down.
The court commissioner said that Doolittle-Norby's blog was written at roughly a sixth-grade level but was legal nevertheless.
He told Lochrie, "I think we can't avoid that there's a big, fat First Amendment staring you in the face," he told her.
Nonetheless, Doolittle-Norby has taken her blog underground. When you try to visit
www.nophatpinkchicks.blogspot.com
, you get this message:
Lochrie's blog is still up and running but she must have been distracted by the trial: Her last blog entry was January, 25.
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