The American media is shocked, shocked, that someone would violate the privacy of a gorgeous ESPN reporter, said Hamilton Nolan in Gawker, by secretly videotaping her naked in her hotel room. So shocked, in fact, that newspapers are begging readers not to watch Erin Andrews video peep clips on the Internet, and demanding jail for the perv responsible. What hypocrisy. Despite the clucking, the media has fed the frenzy with wall-to-wall coverage and countless slide shows of Andrews glamour shots.
It's always easy to blame the media, said The Virginian-Pilot. But newspapers didn't make "Erin Andrews video peep" the No. 1 search phrase on Google. And people kept trying to watch despite warnings that many of the Andrews peephole video links were infected with malware. "Eh-hem. Sounds like a horribly dysfunctional dance between the media and the audience."
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