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NY Post Tops Its Indecency with a Side of Stupidity in Erin Andrews Coverage

The New York Post posted screencaps from the Erin Andrews peephole video today. Don't be shocked, because you shouldn't be. They would also post pictures of me throwing a kitten into a wood chipper, and use the headline "GOODBYE, KITTY: INTERNET QUIPPER TURNS CAT RIPPER WITH CHIPPER." They're America's biggest bastion of unabashed yellow journalism, and have no shame whatsoever about anything. Trying to scold them for using actual screenshots -- illegally obtained screenshots, no less -- is like trying to explain the unsanitary aspects of eating cat feces from a litter box to a Labrador retriever: it neither understands what you are saying, nor does it intend to stop doing what it was designed to do.

So, yeah: bad, but not surprising or scoldworthy. (Again: they don't speak "shame.") One thing the Post usually gets right, though, is gossip, which is where the gray dung beetle of papers fails here. From their article on Andrews, which we're not going to link because they have illegally obtained (though censored) nude photos of one ESPN sportscaster whose rights have been violated in the extreme:

It's been speculated that the video was taken in Omaha, Neb., last month while Andrews was covering the College World Series. But the local police department and US Attorney's Office said no reports had been filed with them.

The video has been posted for at least four months, something the Post could have verified with careful internet research requiring full utility in the English language and the ability to read gray lettering. The Post didn't even bother to do the legwork that (following link is to a site considered slightly adult and probably NSFW) Don Chavez did, and when a one-man Boobs 'n Beer site is outdoing your crack team of Manhattanite gossipistas, it might be time to start wondering whether you're even doing the meager amount of salacious, occasionally unethical and altogether trashy amount of work you are undoubtedly overpaid to do.

Oh, and this whole thing is horrible, but you already knew that. If you didn't know that, then I have a proposal for you involving the aforementioned woodchipper, a diving board, some sparklers, and me filming the whole thing while blasting the 1812 Overture from speakers. The Post will love it, trust me.

UPDATE: Evidently the Post wasn't alone in its idiocy today. Both FOX News and CBS aired still shots from the illegal video during morning show segments today, according to MediaMatters.org.

This post originally appeared on the Sporting Blog. For more, see The Sporting Blog Archives.

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Classless Act by classless people.

by flushing41 on Jul 21, 2009 1:18 PM EDT reply actions  

I agree, good post.

by mojomike on Jul 21, 2009 1:31 PM EDT reply actions  

Totally agree. Erin Andrews only gets naked in hotel rooms for Tim Tebow. Seriously though, shame on the Post.

by ChiAdam on Jul 21, 2009 2:30 PM EDT reply actions  

All three should be sued.

by goldenchild on Jul 21, 2009 2:45 PM EDT reply actions  

That is classless all around with those pictures. I feel bad for Erin, I really enjoy her work. The way things are now with reality tv and TMZ this will probably triple he popularity.

TSN mentioning lazy journalism the is just sooo funny!!!!!!!!! LOL

by brooks36 on Jul 21, 2009 2:58 PM EDT reply actions  

Honestly I think the NYU Post, CBS and FOX News actions will actually work on taking some heat off the blogging community for whom this blame will fall upon.

Perhaps I’m late to the scene, but I didn’t see any of the bigger blogs out there like Deadspin or The Big Lead or Fanhouse or this blog here post still screen shots. 

So for once it’ll be nice to see more posts like this one here from the blogging world scolding the main stream media for being indecent instead of vice versa.

by SimonOnSports on Jul 21, 2009 2:59 PM EDT reply actions  

Eveybody in NY knows the Post sucks, but until someone runs nude photos of Rupert Murdoch, they’ll keep on doing the same old sh!t.

by rriis on Jul 21, 2009 3:20 PM EDT reply actions  

She’s both a beautiful and seemingly intellingent woman.  I enjoy watching her on the sideline reporting from football games.  This invasion of privacy will probably both get this joker arrested, but sued as well.  Hope that was worth the attempt at a quick buck. 

by drunknasasin on Jul 21, 2009 3:22 PM EDT reply actions  

For an encore, "The Post" is gonna run pictures of Kellen Winslow’s testicular staph infection.

by ferociousjane on Jul 21, 2009 4:10 PM EDT reply actions  

Not cool….But now im gonna go look at the pictures…..I dont understand it myself.

by Scott Covill on Jul 21, 2009 5:29 PM EDT reply actions  

Just more evidence to how brutal Fox "News" and CNN are

by Brownsound on Jul 21, 2009 6:02 PM EDT reply actions  

great post! this is embrassingly sad for american media.

by Danica Dude on Jul 21, 2009 6:48 PM EDT reply actions  

In this piece, the author is absolutely right to bash the New York Post, Fox, and CBS.  But I have to also completely agree with Brooks36 here.  However, disgraceful behavior has always been rewarded by the media, but whose fault is it really, the media or to the public who thrive off of being titillated by bottom feeding scum?

Brownsound made a comment about Fox and CNN, but don’t stop there, the American media is becoming a joke, and the internet is getting there.  Print media is at its worst place ever due to shoddy journalism, and CBS, ABC, NBC, and all their sub-networks suck, I can’t remember the last time I watched any news at the network level.  Sports journalism is just as bad – ESPN leads the world in buffoonery, and speculative as opposed to factual journalism is big here at TSN. 

by fan82 on Jul 21, 2009 7:06 PM EDT reply actions  

This just shows how classless, unethical, the media in this country has become.

by Hoosier Coach on Jul 21, 2009 7:37 PM EDT reply actions  

if you’re going to be classless, do it right and give us screencaps of those boobies.

by Bloated111 on Jul 21, 2009 7:52 PM EDT reply actions  

Glass Houses,TSN, Glass Houses.  I do agree, what Erin Andrews has been experiencing is awful and totally inappropriate, but is it really surprising? With the low standards that 99.5% of the media organizations in this country operate by, none of them has the right to point fingers, especially this one. 

by Hippi-Kat on Jul 21, 2009 8:20 PM EDT reply actions  

Totally agree. This is a sign of how the media is attempting to draw an audience. They feel that they need to go extreme to make a name for themselves. Someone needs to call out these journalistic methods and try to get the media back to honesty and integrity.

by SportsYoda on Jul 21, 2009 8:36 PM EDT reply actions  

I’ll need to look at the pics to made a good educated decision as to how classless the Post is.

by Go UK96 on Jul 21, 2009 9:10 PM EDT reply actions  

It’s good to see that ABC (1 of the channels that shows the college football games which Erin Andrews works on) and NBC (not a channel that Erin Andrews works on) took the high road in this situation and not showed the censored photos.  The sofcore porn photos were illegally taken without the woman’s consent.  Shame on CBS and FOX News for trying to spice up their news reports with these horrible photos.  By the way, if Erin Andrews did stage the video, why is the true video replaced by a fake video that is infected with a computer virus?

by asdfsdafsd on Jul 21, 2009 9:13 PM EDT reply actions  

FerociousJane that Winslow bit is one of the funniest things Ive ever read.

As bad as regular journalism is in the US it also affects sports journalism with companys such as the self proclaimed"Worldwide Leader in sports" and our very own TSN much of the time.  

by astrotown on Jul 21, 2009 9:19 PM EDT reply actions  

@Clop7: Play nice, kick the name-calling or don’t come around anymore.

@Hippi Kat: I’m not seeing how a re-write of an actual civil suit that was filed against Ben Roethlisberger has to do with some creep cutting a hole in a wall and taping an unsuspecting woman getting dressed. Care to explain?

by littmann.tsn on Jul 21, 2009 10:31 PM EDT reply actions  

This was bound to happen.  You listen to any sports radio station and they would always talk about how HOT Erin Andrews was and thats the only reason they watch games on ESPN.  But since this video came out they no longer talk about her the same way.  Now she isn’t the HOT girl at ESPN, she is a smart and intelligent woman who has been violated. 

What’s also weird is that all the sports guys that are talking about this and defending her WATCHED the video.  And even admitted they watched it multiple times.  Then telling people,  "hey ive seen the video and its discraseful but don’t any of you listening to the program go out and download it". 

Yes, the NY Post is pathetic but we are in a recession and newpapers around the country are folding like lawn chairs.  Business is business, and right now newspapers need money,  simple as that. 

by tclangham on Jul 21, 2009 11:07 PM EDT reply actions  

No excuse for this at all. She’s a pro that does a great job.

The smart remarks in posts aren’t funny or cool.  

We should all support her privacy and be outraged!

by grs17 on Jul 21, 2009 11:32 PM EDT reply actions  

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Sexy ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews was the target of a
peephole pervert who surreptitiously shot a video of her walking around her
hotel room naked — and posted it on the Internet. NY Post Erin Andrews photos
are creating controversy. The sideline siren wants the creepy cameraman brought
to justice, both for herself and to keep other victims from having to go through
the same nightmare.

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by ANONYMOUS_ORDER on Jul 27, 2009 2:01 AM EDT reply actions  

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