Also, this "we refused to buy or air them because they were an obvious invasion of Erin's privacy" crap might come as a surprise to Rihanna, whose battered ...
From: deadspin.com
This is still bothering me, obviously, and in order to sate my tin-foil sleazeball conspiracies, I'm publishing an email sent to me in order to corroborate my post that TMZ's coverage of the Erin Andrews peepholery was a little sketch.
When you start bathing in the gossip hog shit kiddie pool, as this site has tended to do on occasion, stories like this usually come from anonymous sources because that's how hog shit is made into sausage.(Congratulate me for breaking the world record for pork metaphors in one sentence.)
For disclosure's sake, let's just say he's probably the closest thing you'd get to an "expert" on all things TMZ-related and a trusted confidant of this site. (Not Nick Denton. Don't trust that guy whatsoever.) And this email came unsolicited, late on Saturday night, which is usually the best time for such ranting.
You are so on target about TMZ's role in this Erin Andrews thing. Here's a few things to keep in mind:
They had these videos in their possession a full six months before the story broke (their item today notes, Someone tried to sell the clips to TMZ, but we refused to buy or air them because they were an obvious invasion of Erin's privacy).