ESPN banned staffers from the New York Post from appearing on any of its programming on Wednesday after the newspaper published photos this week taken from a video showing sideline reporter Erin Andrews nude in a hotel room.
The Post published three images from the blurry video Tuesday.
"While we understand the Post's decision to cover this as a news story, their running photos obtained in such a fashion went well beyond the boundaries of common decency in the interest of sensationalism," ESPN senior vice president of communications Chris LaPlaca said in a statement Wednesday night.
Newspaper reporters are regular guests on ESPN shows.
Post spokesman Howard Rubenstein did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
The Post was one of several TV networks and newspapers that aired or published images from the video, which Andrews' attorney says was shot without her knowledge. Andrews plans to seek criminal charges and file civil lawsuits against the person who shot the video and anyone who publishes the material, attorney Marshall Grossman said.
Kelly McBride, a journalism ethics expert with the Florida-based Poynter Institute, said it was unethical for news organizations to show images from the Andrews video.
http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=10774565The NY Post, the rag of choice of Freeptards in NY City. A disgusting Reich-wing rag.
Erin Andrews’ privacy-invading video stirs outrage, guilt, zillion page views
If nothing else, the Erin Andrews nude Web video flap has produced one moment of high comedy.
In its diligent reporting on the issue, the gossip site TMZ.com ended one dispatch with this: “We will not post this video because it is a clear invasion of privacy.”
Yes, that would be the same TMZ that has videographers scouring Hollywood trying to catch celebrities in the act of leaving a nightclub intoxicated, being with someone who is not their significant other or getting annoyed at the videographers trying to catch them getting annoyed.
Then there was the media Web site — we’re looking at you, New York Post — that railed against the “peephole pervert” exploiting the “sideline siren,” then posted that story alongside a slide show of images captured from the video, complete with black bars covering Andrews’ naughty bits.
“Peephole Outrage,” railed the Post’s front-page headline, referring, I think, to the other people showing Andrews naked.
Beyond the heaping tablespoons of hypocrisy, though — oh, and the fact that most sites still claiming to have the video will probably load malware onto your computer — there’s not much that’s funny here. Andrews, a 31-year-old ESPN sports reporter who also happens to be slender, busty and, by most estimates, beautiful, was apparently filmed illicitly in two hotel rooms naked.
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