A newspaper spokeswoman declined to commentary on the ban. She referred The Associated Press to an note on the Post’s information paginate published Thursday that takes ESPN to effort for allegedly tour Andrews. “No one would have known that a disturbed voyeur had quietly videotaped ESPN news-hen Erin Andrews in the buff in her guest-house room, if the Mickey Mouse sports network hadn’t sent a write to an puzzling Web milieu urgent that it take down its connection to a fuzzy video of an unidentified blonde,” the Post said in its routine “Page 6” column.
The Post quoted ESPN spokesman Chris LaPlaca as saying the network is acting “in concert with Erin and her team.” A spokesman for the Bristol, Conn.-based company, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co., declined further view Thursday.
ESPN ultimate week sent a message to a Web instal exigent that the video be removed. The soul who posted the video didn’t connect the unclothed woman, but her attorney has confirmed the video was of the 31-year-old reporter. The Post was one of several TV networks and newspapers that aired or published images from the video, which Andrews’ attorney says was snapshot without her knowledge. Andrews plans to hope hood charges and place in order internal lawsuits against the mortal who swig the video and anyone who publishes the material, attorney Marshall Grossman said.
Grossman in days of yore told the AP that Andrews firm to approve it was her “to put an end to rumor and cerebration and to put the perpetrator and those who are complicit on perception that they undertaking at their peril.” Post reporters, including columnists Lenn Robbins, Kevin Kernan, Joel Sherman and Mark Cannizzaro, are regulated guests on ESPN shows. Andrews, a quondam University of Florida skip pair member, was an Internet commotion even before the video’s circulation.
Some Web sites have referred to her as “Erin Pageviews” because of the shipping she can generate, and Playboy munitions dump named her “sexiest sportscaster” in both 2008 and 2009. She has covered numerous sports for the network since 2004, often as a sideline reporter.