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Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
Yeah I'm just not buying that theory. IF that was true, wouldn't she be taking advantage of the coverage right now? Posing for Playboy, doing countless interviews. I just don't see how this helps her career. Sure more people know about her now but if anything it's gonna be tougher for her to do her job than before. She'll be heckled, get cat calls, be the focus of paparazzi, be looked at even MORE as a sex symbol as opposed to a respected sports journalist. I have a hard time believing she wanted all this to happen. "Let's make my life a living hell." Good plan.
Unfortunately faldor, I think her 911 call pretty much clinched she's using this for fame.
She described herself to the cops as "the girl who was videotaped in the nude", rather than "i'm Erin Andrews, ESPN personality".
She intentionally is already comparing herself to Britney Spears.
In her 911 call, she comes across as an actress. When she's off the phone talking to her mother, she's perfectly composed, and even jokes about the situation with a light-hearted attitude, but when she's back on the phone with the cops, she's near tears.
Bottom line, imho...
She's using this for fame. She might not of even set it up. But she's certaintly using it, and loving the attention, good or bad. I read a blog which stated, "she wanted fame. But she wanted it on her terms. That's not how it works". And that's the best words I can describe it with.
She's trying to control this situation to her advantage, and the photogs and the media are NEVER going to allow that. Michael Jackson didn't have that kind of power. Erin fuckin Andrews certaintly doesn't.
Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
I know from experience, DO WHAT POLICE TELL YOU!
Why? Could the police arrest her for having paparazzi on her lawn? She couldn't just hang out in her parents house for a couple days and avoid the media?! Or heaven forbid, leave the house, get into her car & drive away?! Oh no, Access Hollywood would have footage4 of her walking across her parents driveway. OMG!! The travesty of it all!!
The police told her to call 911 cause they didn't feel like dealing with the pretentious bitch anymore, so they just wanted an easy way to get her off the phone. Too much yapping & complaining.
- monkeychow
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Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
Well I havn't heard these calls, but I'm just saying, most girls I know would flip out if someone recorded them wandering around full nude through a peephole in the door and then up'd it to the net. If it then turned into a tv news story they'd become worse, and if people started following them around to sneak pictures through the kitchen window of the girl who's recently been caught in the buff..WELL...let's just say I'd expect her to respond in an emotional way.
Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
Well I havn't heard these calls, but I'm just saying, most girls I know would flip out if someone recorded them wandering around full nude through a peephole in the door and then up'd it to the net. If it then turned into a tv news story they'd become worse, and if people started following them around to sneak pictures through the kitchen window of the girl who's recently been caught in the buff..WELL...let's just say I'd expect her to respond in an emotional way.
Exactly.
None of us have ever had to deal with paparazzi. I'm guessing it's not much fun though. We've seen plenty of stars get into fights with them. Should Erin have taken that route? Go outside, confront the 2 men who were stalking out her house and challenge them to a fight? Yeah I guess she could've gone that route. OR she could've called to have them removed. She mentioned she lived in a gated community, those people had no right to be there. It's not like they caught her at Starbucks. They were camped outside her house!
Maybe I'm blinded by her beauty, but I'm with Erin on all fronts. She was wronged, and is still being treated unfairly. I'd like to see how the average Joe would react if you found out you had been video taped in the buff without your knowledge and it was spread all over the net. THEN you had 2 guys staked outside your house all day. You'd just go on with your life like nothing happened right? Just brush it off, no big deal. Well I think you'd be in the minority.
Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
faldor you make ALL valid points.
But I think you severely misunderstand, and underestimate how "the business" works, and type of people that actually get in it.
You're trying to take a machine, and apply human logic to it. It's admirable, but all that exists in that world is the lesser of two evils and luck.
Virtually anyone that gets in front of a camera lens is an entertainer, and got INTO IT to be famous.
Erin also underestimates her position in the game. For every 2 paparazzi she pushes away with cops, 4 more will be there tomorrow. Then 8. Then 16. Then 32. Then suddenly she is Brit.
The more you fight it, the more it'll come back on you. You play the game, or the game plays you. Just ask Axl. He fought the law... and the law won, in a sense.
This isn't even counting the fact that THEY... HER PEOPLE... ESPN... DUG UP... a DEAD video that NO ONE was paying attention to, and never did, because no one gave a fuck who Erin Andrews was. SHE dug it up. She brought it back out of the cobbwebs and dusted it off.
She also was the same one not long ago who was PETITIONING to get on "Dancing With The Stars"... yet somehow now, she doesn't want fame, she just wants to be taken seriously as a broadcaster. Bullshit.
It's a nasty world bro, even more nasty that the machine known as entertainment, will play on your own sympathies for mankind, for a backdoor approach to achieve, fortune, fame and legendary status. It worked all along. They'll get you, and Erin Andrews will be right there in the middle as the Puppet Master making it happen.
Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
http://cbs2chicago.com/sports/Erin.Andr … 25279.html
Arrest Made In Case Of Nude Erin Andrews' Videos
A Chicago-area man arrested at O'Hare airport who is accused of taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was due to appear in federal court late Saturday morning, authorities said.
Michael David Barrett was arrested Friday night as he arrived on a flight from Buffalo, N.Y., the FBI said. He faces federal charges of interstate stalking for taking the videos, trying to sell them to celebrity Web site TMZ and posting the videos online, the FBI said in a statement.
Several TV networks and newspapers aired brief clips or printed screen grabs from the videos in July.
Andrews thanked FBI agents and federal prosecutors for their work on the arrest and said she hoped the case will eventually help others who have been similarly victimized.
"For my part, I will make every effort to strengthen the laws on a state and federal level to better protect victims of criminal stalking," she said in a statement early Saturday.
The charges against Barrett were filed in Los Angeles, where TMZ is based and where Andrews first became aware of the videos. She is identified in the federal complaint as E.A.
Andrews' attorney, Marshall Grossman, said he called her Friday night with news of the arrest. She was greatly relieved, he said.
"I think she's probably sleeping more soundly tonight than she has since these videos surfaced," Grossman said.
FBI agents said seven of the eight videos posted online were taken through a modified door peephole while the 31-year-old Andrews was alone and undressed in hotel rooms in Nashville, Tenn., in September 2008.
News of the video became public when it was discovered that malicious Web users were using fake links to the purported videos to trap click-happy people online. Hackers managed to get surfers to download dangerous malware to their computers, according to computer security website, sophos.com.
FBI agents said they believe Barrett called many hotels to find out where Andrews was staying and requested a hotel room next to hers. Investigators said the eighth video was likely taken at another hotel, which Andrews couldn't identify.
Agents said Barrett, 48, also made reservations at a Milwaukee hotel where she stayed in July 2008. They found her door's peephole similarly rigged, but he didn't check in at that hotel and the furniture in the room did not match furniture seen on the eighth video.
Barrett tried to sell the videos to TMZ, but an employee there informed Andrews' attorneys, according to the complaint.
FBI agents matched information in the e-mail to Barrett, and also examined telephone records and credit card charges from Barrett's Nashville hotel stay. Agents also concluded that the videos of Andrews were likely recorded from a cell phone camera.
Barrett sought to place Andrews under surveillance to harass and intimidate her, and to cause substantial emotional distress, the federal complaint said. He faces up to five years in federal prison if convicted.
A message left at a phone listing for a Michael D. Barrett in Westmont, Ill., wasn't immediately returned Friday night.
Andrews has covered hockey, college football, college basketball and Major League Baseball for the network since 2004, often as a sideline reporter during games.
A former dance team member at the University of Florida, Andrews was named "sexiest sportscaster" by Playboy magazine in both 2008 and 2009. She has been referred to as "Erin Pageviews" because of the traffic that video clips and photos of her generate.
"This is clearly welcome news," ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said of the arrest. "Our thoughts and support continue to be with Erin, who has demonstrated tremendous strength and determination."
The federal complaint said Andrews felt ashamed and embarrassed and has had trouble sleeping and breathing because of the videos. She has also been worried that more secretly taped footage will surface, the complaint said.
Grossman said by telephone Friday night that the videos appeared to have been taped by a serial stalker who followed Andrews from city to city.
"He wasn't an accidental tourist," he said. "He had her in his sights."
Grossman has said Andrews plans to file civil lawsuits against the person who shot the video footage and anyone who publishes the material. He said in a statement Saturday morning that Andrews has worked with law enforcement and a private investigative firm to reconstruct events.
"Erin deserves significant credit for the progress made in solving this case," Grossman said.
Andrews, in an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last month, said she thought her career was over once the nude footage of her began circulating on the Internet.
"I kept screaming: 'I'm done. My career is over. I'm done. Get it off. Get it off the Internet,'" she said as she remembered talking to her father. "They thought I was physically injured, (that's) how bad I was screaming."
Andrews returned to the air Sept. 3 as the sideline reporter for ESPN's broadcast of South Carolina at North Carolina State. She is scheduled to work the Auburn-Tennessee game Saturday night in Knoxville, Tenn.
- NY Giants82
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Re: Erin Andrews, invasion of privacy
I saw a segment of the video (why I don't know) and it was just creepy.
Personally I can "get off" on a lot of things when it's actual porn, but that completely changes when it's in real life.
This isn't a fantasy.
