To bring this back to EA: I mentioned earlier that this story hasn't turned into a "blame the blogosphere" slamfest. Instead, it's turned into "Look At The Naked (but tastefully blurred) Hot Chick." The New York Post ran a screen grab on the front page of the paper on Tuesday, five days after this thing broke. CBS used the video on an Early Show segment to scare people about the idea of people doing this to anyone, anywhere.
Incredibly, it's been the blogs who have done an excellent job of taking a higher-level look at this. I highly recommend Will Leitch's essay on it on Deadspin: http://deadspin.com/5319479 On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Wesley McGee<wesley.mc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > >> > > > > There appears to be a potentially bigger story here... that there is a guy > filming women in their hotel rooms and has been doing this for months. There > were supposedly 40 videos in all, of several different women. (Deadspin > didn't link to the original host, but to one of the nude video aggregator > sites -- of course such things exist). The original account has since been > closed (of course). > > -- > Wesley McGee > http://www.ambivi.com > http://sterlingnorth.vox.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
