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.
This article appears in Backstage Pass.
No Phat Chicks is once again public.
And after having just looked it over, aside from the recent lawsuit gloating posts, I wouldn’t have known it was spoofing another blog unless it was pointed out to me, say, with news coverage about a lawsuit.