By: A local court official has found that a blog that mocks a Northern California newspaper reporter is "rude and boorish" but is allowed under the First Amendment.
Christy Lochrie, a reporter for The Record Searchlight in Redding, sought a restraining order against her former friend, Beth Doolittle-Norby.
Doolittle-Norby writes a blog called "No Phat Pink Chicks." It pokes fun at Lochrie's reporting, looks and personality.
On Feb. 20, Gary Gibson, a Shasta County Superior Court commissioner, rejected Lochrie's request to force Doolittle-Norby to take down her blog and stay away from her. He said the blog's commentary was written at roughly a sixth-grade level but was legal nevertheless.
Gibson also criticized the newspaper reporter, whose own blog, "Phat and Pink," appears on the Record Searchlight's Web site, Redding.com.
"I think we can't avoid that there's a big, fat First Amendment staring you in the face," he told her.
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