Erin Andrews & The People Who Hate Her
It’s time for people in sports media to realize that professional sports ain’t that deep. I’m sorry to break the news. With basic knowledge and the ability to write well, anyone can be a sports reporter. Anyone. It’s not on the same level of general news. It never has and never will be.
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Rarely does a sports story lead the local news or headline a newspaper.
As you may or may not know, Erin Andrews (pictured to the right), reporter for ESPN, had her privacy violated when someone videotaped her, through a peephole, walking nude in some hotel room. The video has been circulating the Internet for days now and she had threatened to sue the bum who filmed her without permission. Allegedly, the bum trying to sell this video to the highest bidder.
This has given haters of Andrews an avenue to spout off yet again about how she is only popular because of her looks and not her talent. They talk about how she’s not a real sports journalist. They talk about how she has gotten ahead because of body.
Without doubt, many commenting on this saga will inevitably say that she brought this on herself for flaunting her sexulity. In fact, Christine Brennan, columnist for USA Today recently post on her Twitter account, “Women sports journalists need to be smart and not play to the frat house. There are tons of nuts out there. The Erin Andrews incident is bad, but to add perspective: there are 100s of women sports journalists who have never had this happen to them.
Yeah, Erin Andrews got some breaks because of her looks. Stop the presses! Mothers mind your skirts! ESPN is a television network that has a large male viewership and many of those men love to look at her. The way this peephole story has gained national attention proves how popular she is.
Of course she dresses to be seen and not heard, she’s on television! As hard as it is to believe, some people get paid six or seven figures a year for looking good on television while doing much less than Andrews. Ask Vanna White. She’ll tell you.
Do the haters of Andrews have the same type of scorn for someone like Jon Grunden, former NFL head coach of the Tampa Bay Bucs, who will get the Monday Night Football announcing gig without ANY type of broadcast experience?
What kind of questions can Andrews (or any sideline reporter) ask in a twenty second report that others haven’t asked? People act as if other ESPN reporters ask hard hitting relevant questions to athletes. For the most part, they don’t. Well, not to their faces because they don’t want to get shut out of interviews. So, here comes the softball questions. Andrews isn’t the only one guilty of pandering to athletes.
It’s obvious to me that some are jealous of Andrews when their arguements against her lack any substance.
This is a response to this blog post from Chicago Now:
Wherein I Defend A Naked Erin Andrews—Sigh— A League of Her Own
VIDEO: Erin Andrews (fully clothed) on The Big Idea (CNBC)
VlogHog
Oh that is nice, the voice of reason for once.
FYI, that picture is not Erin Andrews. Might want to do some more research before you just pull any random image from Google. That’s Shana Hiatt who used to host the World Poker Tour. Look it up.