ESPN Bans New York Post Over Erin Andrews Naked Peephole Hotel Pictures

...And you thought The New York Post was a reputable source for news. Well, they seem to have jumped on the Erin Andrews exploitation bandwagon, by printing three pictures from the now famous Erin Andrews Naked Peephole video that has been wildly circulating through the Internet. The New York Post is no-doubt aware that Google searches for "Erin Andrews Peephole" or "Erin Andrews Naked Video" have been the top slot of Google Trends for the last week. Well, now add "New York Post prints Erin Andrews pictures" to the search. More accurately, "New York Post loses credibility".

Now, The New York Post will claim that they needed to print the Andrews screen shots of her undressing in a hotel room and being taped against her knowledge to compliment the article they were running, but ESPN is calling foul. ESPN has already come out publicly about the Erin Andrews peephole insanity, rallying around their fellow reporter and condemning anyone who looks at the peephole video, circulates it, or who searches for pictures from the peephole video which invaded the privacy of Erin Andrews and has made women everywhere think twice before undressing in the privacy of their own homes or hotel rooms.

ESPN has now vowed to ban anyone from The New York Post from appearing on any of its programming. This will send a powerful message to those at The New York Post that printing pictures of a crime that is still under investigation, reducing themselves to not much more than a trashy grocery store gossip tabloid, is unacceptable.

Further supporting Erin Andrews and issuing strong words against The New York Post for printing pictures from the infamous naked peephole video is none other than ESPN senior vice president of communications Chris LaPlaca. He issued a statement Wednesday night saying;

"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."

This writer could not agree more. When does chasing a hot story cross the line into crossing these boundaries? When you print pictures of someone who's privacy was invaded under the guise that printing them was necessary to the telling of the story. In this writer's humble opinion, it doesn't make you an accurate source for current news, it just makes you another pervert searching for naked pictures of Erin Andrews on the Internet.

source:http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212246067.shtml