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Category Archives: Cathy Seipp
Tom Christie’s Tribute To Cathy Seipp
He writes in the LA Weekly: She was ‚Äúopinionated,‚Äù as everyone says, meaning both acerbic and politically conservative, and she could be difficult, sometimes absurdly so. But she was also a good and loyal friend, a devoted mother to 17-year-old … Continue reading
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Fox News: ‘As Cathy Seipp Lay Dying, Her Nemesis Took His Parting Shot on the Web’
Michael Park writes on FoxNews.com: Just hours before her death, Cathy Seipp suddenly seemed to undo decades of hard work with an oddly written letter posted on the Web site, www.cathyseipp.com. In what came off as more bizarre rant than … Continue reading
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Giving Cathy’s Family Privacy
Debbie, Cathy’s cousin, posts to Cathy’s World March 25: I take real issue with certain comments that Luke Ford has recently put on his blog. Cathy and her sister had their conflicts but they should not be aired publicly. I … Continue reading
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Cathy Seipp’s Last Request
In January, Cathy asked me to do a proper Wikipedia entry on her. I never got around to it.
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Fox News Story On The Battle Over CathySeipp.com Is With Fox’s Lawyers
Michael Park’s story on FoxNews.com appeared March 28. Here’s some background on the fight.
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LAT: ‘The blogosphere rumor, coverage, malice and celebration around writer Cathy Seipp’s death last week’
Sandra Tsing Loh writes in The Los Angeles Times March 27: On the one hand, it would be hard to confuse cathyseipp.com with her actual site. On the other hand, when the cyber-squatter last week reverted to his earlier ways, … Continue reading
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I Disagree With All Of My Friends
Fox News report. About two years ago, Maia Lazar had a journalism advisor at Ribet Academy named Eliot Stein, a resident of the San Fernando Valley. Mr. Stein says that when his journalism class revolted against Maia their Editor, he … Continue reading
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Cathy Seipp’s Stalin Connection
Her daughter Maia IMs me: "So I found out my great great great uncle worked for Stalin in chemical engineering."
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Cathy Seipp’s New York Times Obit
From the March 26 paper: After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1977, Ms. Seipp worked for The Associated Press, The California Apparel News and The Daily News in Los Angeles. In the early 1990s, she began … Continue reading
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What Is Cathy Seipp’s Passing Doing To People?
There were all sorts of battles fought around Cathy in her final weeks and now that she has died, some of these old battles have relaunched with a new ferocity while new ones begin between old friends. What else can … Continue reading
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