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Actress Andrea Thompson - Is This Woman Qualified To Read Your News?

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4/29/01

I returned home from my Friday morning prayers and surfed over to MediaNews.com to get the latest. And the site referred me to this article on the humiliation of CNN reporter and actress Andrea Thompson:

After nude pictures emerge on the Net, the Cable News Network may be backpedaling on the controversial hire of Andrea Thompson.

CNN had every expectation that Andrea Thompson, the cable network's new national correspondent, would be hot ratings material. After all, Thompson was hot stuff in her four years on ABC's cop drama NYPD Blue as the tough-talking Detective Jill Kirkendall. But thanks to some revelatory images on the Internet, it now it appears that she might be too hot for CNN to handle.

The decision to hire Thompson, a high-school dropout with less than a year of experience in the news business, was already controversial and quickly drew fire from within CNN and the broader journalism community. Her appointment to a prized position – one that many CNN correspondents spend years and decades striving for – angered many of Thompson's soon-to-be colleagues. Media critics decried what they saw as a naked attempt to boost ratings at the expense of CNN's vaunted journalistic reputation.

Now, The Industry Standard has learned that CNN might be backing away from its controversial decision to hire Thompson. On Wednesday, CNN executives learned of topless pictures of Thompson circulating on the Internet, pictures culled from her 15-year Hollywood career as an actress and model, and a career dominated by bit roles in Baywatch, JAG, Silk Stalkings and Arli$$. Most damning to CNN, it seems, were her nude scenes in a 1986 Italian erotic film called Manhattan Gigolo.

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Andrea Thompson played the hooker in the movie Wall Street. She stops by the room of Charlie Sheen, takes him into a limousine and give him cocaine and a blowjob.

Thompson issued a statement saying she ''did pose for Black And White magazine, a prestigious artistic publication, several years ago. I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the decision I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.''

Chris Berg, who heads the news department at KOB-TV, suggested that Thompson, who has worked at rival KRQE since leaving Blue, posed no competition. "I think working in Albuquerque is out of her league, " he told the Albuquerque Journal. "Yes, I think she has improved as a news reporter, but she's still not good enough to work at our station."

Duckem writes about Andrea's performance in Manhattan Gigolo: "She has two scenes. The first is at the 18 minutes mark where she has a threesome with two other guys and this scenes lasts for at least five minutes and shows her from every angle including a glimpse of her vagina. The second is at the 40 minute mark when she is gang banged and again a glimpse of her vagina is shown."

Fred writes Luke: Sir: I sympathize with your standing up for journalistic integrity. If a bedrock, no a Rock of Gibralter of journalistic integrity like l-keford.com does not stand up for the integrity of journalism, who will? Surely, we cannot expect the weaker sisters of journalism, like the N.Y. Times, or the Times of London to carry the banner of integrity if l-keford.com fails in this important task.

Frankly, a great deal of "casting" for TV news is based on physical attractiveness, poise, and other things that in general have nothing to do with journalism. I have a vague recollection of seeing a documentary a few years back on a television journalism program at either Brigham Young or University of Utah, where they took time to teach students about how to look good on camera, i.e. issues regarding wardrobe, makeup, etc. I thought that was tacky as hell. But if you're going to go that far, why the hell not just hire actors as TV reporters. After all, an actor should know how to act authoritative, and exude that "I'm smart, serious and telling you the truth" attitude. What the hell difference does it make if the actor is just reading a script, and has no f---ing clue who the president is, where the Colombian drug lords are from (some college in N.Y., I think), or who's buried in Grant's tomb?

It's like division of labor. If you're going to make a movie, you have some guys who are really good at carpentry to build the sets, other guys who are really good writers to write the script, and other guys who look good and can remember their lines to act.

Look, do you think Tom Cruise could build a competent set, or write a competent screen play? Probably not, and it doesn't matter. That's not why he gets hired.

When you saw the movie Patton, did you really think that George C. Scott had the slightest clue as to how to command an army? Probably not.

So why should we demand that the guys who read our news be able to do anything else? Does it make the news any more believable or accurate? I don't think so.

WARREN BERGER writes Jim Romenesko at MediaNews.com: I'm a huge fan of your site and think you're doing a fantastic job. But I have to question why, on the story about Andrea Thompson, you had a link taking the reader to a topless picture of her. To run a story about the pictures is fine, because it is news. But should your site be, in effect, passing around dirty pics of a fellow journalist? Whatever people may think of Ms. Thompson's credentials, she is one of us now, and she deserves better than this.

From BRUCE BARTLETT, Syndicated columnnist, Creators Syndicate: I am very amused by all the criticism that former actress Andrea Thompson is getting for her foray into journalism. I think the reason why so many television news people are reacting so negatively to her is because the line between what they do and what she did on shows like NYPD Blue is so thin. Most television "journalists" in my opinion are nothing but actors to begin with. Both essentially do the same thing: read lines written for them by someone else and try to look good and appear believable while doing so. All the heavy lifting in television news is done by producers, whom one never sees on camera. They deserve to be called journalists. But most of the people we see on the screen are just pretty faces. That being the case, I for one would much rather see Andrea Thompson when I turn on CNN than any of the other news readers it employs.

Amber@EroticVideos.com phoned Luke Friday morning.

Amber: "I've never been so upset. You generally don't approve of women being reporters? Because we're supposed to be porn stars, strippers or mothers?"

Luke: "I'm writing out more of a primal feeling than something thought out. When women go into professions, those professions lose their glamor to men."

Amber: "Luke, I've always defended you when people talked s---. Because I have respect for you and what you're trying to do. You're trying to say that there's more to this industry than someone sucking someone's cock. And I've always stood by you even when I disagreed with you. Because I've always believed that you were trying to make a difference. I can not believe that you would say something like that. That hurts my feelings really bad. I take that personally.

"I struggle every day, as does every girl that works in this office, because we are some of the only genuine females in this business that don't get naked. And we have to put up with this s---. You can't imagine what we have to go through.

"I am in shock that you would put something like that on your site. That hurts my feelings so bad that you should say something like that. That means that all our conversations are just bulls--- and I am nothing more than a stupid woman to you. And that totally and completely breaks my heart."

Luke: "Don't you ever have feelings or thoughts that embarrass you because they go completely against your values or you find yourself looking down on people and things that you wished you didn't? But if you were honest, you'd have to admit that's what you're feeling?"

Amber: "I can't say that I'd recall one. Again, we're all from the South. I was raised that if you were honest about your feelings..."

Luke: "Let's say you're driving. And someone cuts you off. And you see that they are a minority. Don't you ever think, 'Oh, what a stupid Jew/black/latino/nun/old lady etc?"

Amber: "Honestly, I would say, 'f---ing dumbass.' I don't think that way. People are different but I would never give that as an excuse, to say that you're from California or New York, for saying that women aren't worthy of doing a f---ing job."

Luke: "You can't take my site at face value."

Amber: "Not your site, something you said..."

Luke: "You can't take everything I say at face value."

Amber: "But I do. I had a lot of respect for you. I really really valued what you did. I really go to bat for you. When your name comes up, I'm first one to speak up for you. I really believe that you can be a good force for our industry. But what you just did here, you could never go to bat genuinely for any of the girls. Because you would be such a hypocrite. You don't care about them. They're just f---ing whores to you. And that's what you said without saying it. That every woman has her place and that place is to be barefoot, pregnant and knocked up in the home.

"I worked my ass for this industry. When that stuff happened to Devon, we all went to bat for her. Not because we thought she was right or wrong but because she's a girl, maybe the guys at Vivid didn't understand her. That's what we do because we're girls. And that you would say that, and degrade us, and say that we're not worthy, shame on you. Shame on you. I thought you were so much better than every sleazeball in this business. But I stand corrected because you're not. You're just down there with them.

"The next time something bad happens, and I'd say, 'He's better than them,' well, I will never say that again. Because you are just like them. You are like Mr Marcus, you are like Marc Wallice, you are like Bobby [Vitale]. You are like every one of them. You are a man. And I will never think anything different about you unless you post a retraction. Because I genuinely believed you were different. I thought you were better. I thought you had a genuine insight into what the girls, every day in this business, have to struggle with."

Luke: "I'm sure if there was a mind reading device, and someone put that to your brain, they would find that you, like anyone else, have a lot of opinions and views and neuroses, which, if taken in isolation, would look very bad. My site is freeflowing. And I will sometimes post feelings of mine that are completely inappropriate."

Amber: "They are inappropriate. You can not degrade women in that manner. That's what you have done. So you're not going to post a retraction. You're going to stand by the fact that it is ok to be a male chauvinist pig."

Luke: "I am going to stand by the fact that it is ok to express on occassion male chauvinist comments."

Amber: "That's where you're wrong. And that's one of the things that I always liked about you. You always backed off from the racist comments. When that Mr Marcus thing hit, I was really impressed by how you handled that. I got carbon copies some of that stuff that psycho freak Bryan would send you, and you never posted those. If you're going to back off on racism, why did you post that comment? Why encourage degrading women?

"And I am not saying that some of these women don't degrade themselves. Yes they do. But why can you not be above the crowd. You've been above it most of the time, aside from the fact that you're still posting pictures of 17 year old girls."

Luke: "I will on occassion post thoughts and feelings of mine that are not good. I was embarrassed on that whole [Andrea Thompson] story..."

Amber: "You are forcing my whole hand. As a female in this industry, I can not back off. I have to take you on publicly on this issue. You know I have to. I'm serious. I am so mad. I'm writing it out. I'm giving you one chance. By the time I get back tonight, if it's not down, I'm taking you on on this. With the utmost respect but I can't sit there and let you do that."

Luke: "You should."

Amber: "So you're really not pulling it?"

Luke: "No, but I won't take any personal offence. I made a disgusting chauvinist comment."

Amber: "I just thought you were better than that."

Luke: "The way I conduct myself with women in general is on a high plane."

Amber: "As long as we know our place?"

Luke: "Look. I met this woman at synagogue two weeks ago. And we've exchanged email. And last night, I repeated to her a question that I got from Chaim Amalek. Why does the company web site not feature a photo of her so we can judge her fundamental worth as a woman?"

Amber: "Excuse me? Based on her looks?"

Luke: "It's sarcastic."

Amber: "That's completely inappropriate."

Luke: "Well, I wanted to see how she'd react. You could say that's sadistic."

Amber: "It's being a man.

"I'm having April pull out my rollerdex at this time and I'm calling every single girl I have in this rollerdex and I am pulling out Kelly's rollerdex and I am calling every single girl in that rollerdex unless you retract."

Luke: "I'm not going to retract a stray comment just because it is offensive."

Amber: "Ok, the war is on. Let's see who has the bigger balls by the end of the week. A week from today. I'm betting you that by Friday, May 4th, you're posting a retraction. Fair?"

PornPro writes Luke: "For you - a purported "journalist" who couldn't get the facts to a story straight if your life depended on it; who regularly deals in unsubstantiated gossip and innuendo - to criticize Andrea Thompson for lacking "journalistic integrity" is the funniest thing I've heard all morning. Or the most hypocritical. Better stick to those non-factual topics, Luke, like all your silly, superstitious religious beliefs."

Redneckguy writes: Mr. Ford: Don't do it! Don't you do it! It don't matter what all them whores think, you be a man and stick to your guns. I can't believe that Amber woman is a Southern bred female. Her Daddy oughta be shot for allowing her head to get filled with such nonsense. Mr. Ford, you called it the way you saw it. And I swear on my NRA membership, and everything else that's sacred to all good Christians, that you called it right. If that other woman wants to be a good honest reporter like yourself, Mr. Ford, she shoulda thought twice before she took off her clothes in front of that camera and let everyone see her for the whore she is. You make a living reporting on these whores, and good gentlemen like yourself, and that Mr. Sturnam, and Mr. Craven, oughta be worshipped by these whores cause of all the special attention you lavish on them. It makes me plain angry. Every woman on this planet has a one basic choice to make at some time in her life: to be a whore or not to be one. And if they choose whorishness, well then, by God, they oughta just be happy with it and quit their snivellin. And if these other women who maybe aren't exactly whores want to step up and defend them, well then, they might as well get rid of their duds, step up in front of Mr. Craven's camera, and be whores too. It'd make life more simpler for them, and they'd have more time to think about more important stuff, like pleasin their man.

Fred writes Luke: I assume (with only about 70% certainty) that this was the result you were hoping to achieve by posting this editorial. My guess is that your readership will now go up. Plus, you will probably get about 5 or 10 angry e-mails that you can post on your site as "content". This is brilliant.

I say the odds are 2/3 that you apologize, or give some mealy-mouth explanation like "I did this to get a rise out of people." The odds are 1/3 that you stick to your guns.

BTW, what do you know about "Amber"? Is she good looking? What kind of woman becomes a reporter at "Erotic Videos"? See what you can dig up about her?

Actually, you should offer to meet her, try to schtuppe her, and then post a story on l-keford.com about the experience.

Also, what do you know about Amber's journalism? Has she written any articles? See if you can get some (on the pretext of seeing if she has what it takes, journalistically). Then you can post them, and provide some kind of outrageously unfair critique.

But most of all, find out if Amber is hot looking, and whether there are any compromising pictures of her to be had. Inquiring minds want to know!

Luke says: I believe Amber used to work as a stripper. You can check out her fine work at EroticVideos.com. I believe the company has no male employees, or at least not as writers.

Rumdar writes Luke: Should it not go well for Andrea Thompson I believe there is an alternative gig waiting for her (tailor made as it were) at www.NakedNews.com

Lynne L-patin: Not having television, I've no idea who Andrea Thompson is. I love the naked pictures. In fact, all journalists, starting with yourself, should have a portfolio of nude pix. How do we know you're being honest about that infamous 5.5 endowment? Cause if you can't be honest about your dick size, how can we trust anything else you write?
Lynne L-patin: It is absolutely irrelevant that professions hold "glamor" to men. The problem is that when women enter a profession, the wages drop.

Max writes Luke: The thing for me that makes your site interesting is the fact that you inject some intelectual thoughts along with some good journalism into your site. I do however, have one question... Do you think that once you run a story such as the Andrea the CNN gal, and discuss the moral and ethical ramifications as it relates to journalism, that most of your readers are lost or shall I say, not smart enough to understand? I am by no means demeaning some of your readers, but it would appear that many would rather read how this actress had this for dinner etc.

Rob writes: This whole story kills me. All the pornlets dream of going mainstream after being analed by Mr. Marcus and this broad who did a few soft-core tit shots is being branded with the scarlet letter. Pornlets wake up!

Memo To All Female Journalists - Make Babies And Shut Up

Chaim Amalek writes Luke: NO FREAKING WAY SHOULD YOU RETRACT YOUR STATEMENT. The stone cold truth is that women do not have the genetic capital necessary to be objective reporters. For a woman of child bearing years to be working is itself a declaration of war on nature. Besides, such a "war" would be about the best thing to happen to you professionally since you first got into this business. All the men who run the porn biz (and they are the only ones who count, when you get right down to it) will get a chuckle out of it and think "That Luke F-rd - maybe he really DOES have some balls after all. I think I will give him a call." The women in the business who are not lesbians or feminists or Bush-hating, cat-owning, douche-defying liberals will begin to see you in a more manly light and want to f--- you, and this will rub off on all aspects of your personal life in no time. Even your CFS, BSE or whatever that is called will begin to subside.

Luke, you might even have the genesis of a new political movement here. I have the slogan you should use - Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join Luke F-rd's party.

PS On the other hand, I would retract my statement IF this Amber-person were very very hot looking and willing to give me lots of sex before and after retracting.

Curious writes: Curious writes: Luke, you hypocrite! You criticize CNN reporter, Andrea Thompson, for her soft-core porn past while you actively covet a mainstream reporting job when you have a HARD-CORE past. I can just see you as a corespondent for CNN now ...

Scott Lawrence writes: Luke, this broad can't work at CNN-she's not cross-eyed! Women should not be in the news biz. I mean, what with THE CURSE every month, it would severely limit their ability to handle breaking news (and other than Walter Cronkite nobody wants a bloated newscaster).

And stand your ground Luke! Don't retract. Like with Marc Wallice, you are right about this.

I find it amusing she defends that Black and White spread but declines to mention Midnight Gigolo. And for Amber(another angry stripper), don't worry about the high school dropout Andrea- I hear Robert Lombard needs a blond for the new Showtime series NUDES AT ELEVEN. Andrea will be pefect!

Damian writes: Why is there a question as to thether or not Andrea Thompson is qualified to read the news? Of course she is. She has no high school diploma and no journalism background (until her first job in TV news reporting recently), that's true. But what qualifications are needed? A pleasant appearance and the ability to read news off the teleprompter are about it. The other news readers have better qualifications? Really?

The real reason there is an uproar in the news industry over this is because it points out what little qualification one must have to do this job. Hell, it's not like they were doctors or something, they just read the news. Give me Andrea Thompson or Laurie Dhue any day of the week. Oh, and I hope Laurie doesn't have immense journalism credentials. It would ruin her image as my sex object.

Goddess writes: You can pick either a nude Dan Rather or a nude Andrea Thompson to read your news to you, Lukey baby. *NOW* which one would you rather have? A wrinkly old college diploma or hot ta-ta's...what's it gonna be?

Porn star Ruby writes: Luke, You absolutely have the right to make stupid, chauvinistic comments. I also have the right to say, women are more advanced than men in their thought patterns, men have more simplistic thought patterns, which makes them better at simple direct tasks. We could argue superiority all day but such arguments bore me. To really be honest, who wants to be a reporter, I'd rather own the whole friggin corporation!!! I could out intellectualize Chaim any day!!