{"id":186,"date":"2007-03-27T07:44:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2007-12-09T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T19:20:17","slug":"lat-the-blogosphere-rumor-coverage-malice-and-celebration-around-writer-cathy-seipps-death-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"LAT: ‘The blogosphere rumor, coverage, malice and celebration around writer Cathy Seipp’s death last week’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sandra Tsing Loh writes in The Los Angeles Times March 27<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On the one hand, it would be hard to confuse cathyseipp.com<\/em> with her actual site. On the other hand, when the cyber-squatter last week reverted to his earlier ways, posting a "last blog entry" signed "Cathy Seipp" in which Cathy supposedly begged final forgiveness for her politics, her friends and her parenting, this seemed to cross a new line. By week’s end, Cathy’s family and friends were debating whether to take legal action. Everyone was offended, exhausted and still staggered with grief. The public expression of which Cathy’s funeral was, of course, recorded without our knowledge and posted by another blogger. Yep, it’s all out there on the Web, just start Googling you’ll see snot pouring out of my nose as I wail helplessly through my eulogy, which, along with everything else involving the ceremony, has all already been critiqued online. "It’s like Cathy was the only thing that kept these people civilized!" was the horrified comment of friend Andrew Breitbart who, one should note, edits the Drudge Report. Even he!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News report.<\/a><\/p>\n

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