Friday, July 24, 2009

ESPN Peephole Scandal

ESPN reporter completely naked in different hotel rooms – the same hotel in four of the videos and different hotels in the other two videos -which led to the suspicion the person who taped it can be connected with the coverage of athletic events. Four of the clips were shot in the same hotel. The remaining two were shot in a different hotel. In the first hotel, the peephole is round. In the second hotel, the peephole is jagged. The furniture in the two hotel rooms is completely different.
In the first set of videos, Erin is naked, curling her hair while looking into a mirror. It appears all four clips are from the same video. In the second set of clips, Erin is also naked, ironing a pair of pants. The event has sparked conversation about double standards for female sports reporters, the effects of privacy invasion, and their impacts on the future of female sports reporting.Before the video gained prominence, Andrews was scheduled to return to reporting duties in September.
Over the years, the biggest criticism of ESPN, the self-proclaimed "Worldwide Leader in Sports," has been that it engages in shameless self-promotion that often makes it seem as if the network is bigger than the stories it covers. But in a strange twist, two stories have developed in recent days that have thrust ESPN into the national spotlight and made the network the story. Here's a look at those two stories one that made the network the focus through no fault of ESPN's and one that did through ESPN's doing and how they have been viewed.

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