- Catherine Seipp
Catherine Seipp (
November 17 ,1957 –March 21 2007 ) was a Los Angeles freelance writer and media critic. She is best known for writing the weekly "From the Left Coast" column for "National Review Online" and a monthly column for the "Independent Women's Forum " and for her early recognition of the potential significance of theblogosphere . [http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/culture_clash_journalism_and_the_communal_ethos_of_the_blogosphere.html] [http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15456889ajc1302_2]Personal life
Cathy Seipp was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1957. Her family moved to
Los Alamitos, California when she was four years old. When she was 16, she enrolled atUCLA and earned a bachelor's degree in English.Seipp married Jerry Lazar in 1986; their daughter, Maia, was born in 1989. Seipp and Lazar divorced in 1990, and Seipp never remarried.
Seipp, a non-smoker, died of
lung cancer onMarch 21 2007 .Media
Writings
In addition to her regular columns, Seipp wrote for a variety of publications and websites, including "Buzz", "
Mediaweek ", "UPI", "New York Press ", "TV Guide ", "Reason", "Forbes ","Salon", "Penthouse", "Pages","Canada's National Post", and "The Wall Street Journal".TV appearances
She was also a regular guest on
CNBC 's "The Dennis Miller Show" until the show's cancellation in May 2005.Quotes
*"I just want to let everyone know having cancer hasn't made me a better person". [http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2007/03/cathy_seipp_1.html]
*"And to all those proper feminists asking how I could work for a mag [Penthouse] that exploits women like that, I would suggest: Go write for a woman's mag if you want to experience an institution that exploits women". [http://www.nationalreview.com/seipp/seipp200401130854.asp]External links
* [http://cathyseipp.net Cathy Seipp's weblog]
* [http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Zjg0ZjZlNDExODg4YzFhYTM5YTU4NjlkNTVjOGY1OWU= An NRO Symposium: Friends remember Cathy Seipp]
* [http://www.iwf.org Independent Women's Forum]
* [http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/catherine_seipp.htm Profile] byLuke Ford
* [http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-seipp22mar22,0,7170756.story? "Los Angeles Times" obituary]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/us/26seipp.html?_r=1&oref=slogin "New York Times" obituary]
* [http://ceciledubois89.journalspace.com Cecile Dubois's blog (Cathy Seipp's daughter)]
* [http://riprense.com/seipp.htm Miss Seipp: a tribute by Rip Rense]
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