The backstory on this: apparently the video was in the wild for about four months. The site that hosted the video received a cease-and-desist letter from ESPN to pull the video, which they did. Deadspin.com linked to the video's former page and the C&D notice at 3:25 p.m. Friday, noting that the video didn't even mention the name of anyone (the quote was "Hot naked blonde who looks a lot like a sports blogger favorite in her hotel room."). People used Google cache to pull the video back from the digital abyss. When ESPN confirmed it was Andrews, Deadspin made another post at 10:45 p.m. with the confirmation. Deadspin pulled down all the comments on the original post, and started deliberately deleting any comment that linked to the page in question.
The entire episode brought a lot of things to a head at Deadspin (considered one of the founding fathers of sports blogging). Deadspin has had a long history of posting Andrews related things, including photos and commentary. The best way to describe Andrews is as someone similar to a "girl next door," thought of as gorgeous, smart, yet folksy. Two camps broke out: one feeling that Deadspin helped feed this monster and was ultimately liable for the environment that lead to someone doing this, the other playing the "it was all tounge-in-cheek," and someone took this way too far (though almost all completely agree it was completely inappropriate). A.J. Daulero, the editor of the site and poster of the original story, said he posted the link to the dead page unaware of the fact that someone could use just the link to pull the footage back (FWIW: I believe him). There was a question of how this story would play in the MSM, and I've been pleasantly surprised to find that it has not turned into the "let's blame the bloggers" themeline that I would've thought. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Bob in Jersey<bob.in.jer...@juno.com> wrote: > > First some nitwit secretly records sideline reporter Erin Andrews > changing in a hotel room, then others claiming to have the footage > infect unsuspecting fanboiz' machines... she'll sue, so help her, > she'll =sue=... > > http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/07/20/2009-07-20_hackers_create_links_to_naked_footage_of_espn_reporter_erin_andrews_results_in_d.html > > > -- > BOB > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
