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TMZ.com is a celebrity gossip and news website, the result of a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures Productions, a division of Warner Bros. Both AOL and Warner Bros. are units of Time Warner. TMZ's managing editor is Harvey Levin, and the site is powered by Blogsmith.
While positioning itself as an independent celebrity news site, the site is more widely regarded as a tabloid journal, though unique for its major corporate backing. The site doesn't pay for stories or interviews, but it does pay for video clips and photos. Levin states that "Everything is researched and vetted for accuracy."
TMZ garnered some notice for publishing a handwritten police report the night of Mel Gibson's DUI arrest in July 2006. It also garnered attention for posting a video of Brandon Davis insulting Lindsay Lohan for the amusement of Paris Hilton that was then picked up by major newspapers, and a copy of the alleged birth certificate of the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, which was also picked up by Associated Press and USA Today.

Jodie Sweetin's pregnancy (with sonogram)

The birth of Salma Hayek's and François-Henri Pinault's daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault

Jennifer Lopez's alleged pregnancy

Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade after a drunk driving incident

Exclusive video footage of Michael Richards' racist tirade at The Laugh Factory against a couple of African-American audience members who had heckled him

The divorce of Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon

The divorce of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline

The divorce of Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito

The divorce papers filed by Nancy Daus in 2003

The divorce of Jennifer Murphy and Bill Dorfman

The divorce of Johnny Knoxville and his wife

The DUI arrest of Ty Pennington

Paris Hilton speaking for the first time after being sentenced to jail and subsequently having sentence appealed

Michelle Rodriguez's sentencing to jail

Kiefer Sutherland's DUI arrest

Chris Benoit double murder-suicide.

The drowning death of Hunter Tylo's son

Anna Nicole Smith's sudden death and details of her will

Alec Baldwin's voicemail tirade against his daughter

Rosie O'Donnell leaving The View

Ellen DeGeneres injuring her back

Tony Hawk and wife Lhotse expecting their first child

The death of Heath Ledger

Britney Spears emergency 5150 psychiactric hold

Contempt of court motion

On June 20, 2007, a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee filed an emergency motion requesting that the web site be held in contempt for its publication of the entire manuscript of If I Did It, O.J. Simpson's purportedly fictionalized account of the murder of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. The filing claims that TMZ's posting of the PDF of the entire book has "diminished or destroyed" the value, which the Goldman family may eventually publish (and promote) as Simpson's confession to the murders.

Criticism

Some have criticized TMZ.com for its usage of photographs and videos from paparazzi media. With accidents such as that of Princess Diana, some have questioned the effect the paparazzi have on the stars they cover. Some videos on the site are simply videos of stars being chased by the paparazzi, causing some to argue that this practice is dangerous and "creepy". It is estimated that paparazzo who work for the site can make between $6,000 and $8,000 dollars per week. Some have also called for a boycott of the website and its accompanying show.
   According to Ken Sunshine, publicist for Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio, "I hate that they've anything to do with trying to put celebrities into the worst light possible and that they play the 'gotcha' game".
   Others have harshly criticized TMZ.com's glamorization of figures such as Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton: celebrities who are known more as targets for paparazzi than their actual work.
   After TMZ posted the audio of his voice mail message to his 11-year-old daughter, Alec Baldwin said, “You find out that everybody who works in tabloid media are people who are filled with self-hatred and shame, and the way they manage those feelings is they destroy the lives of other people.”
   The Time Warner-owned TMZ has been criticized for paying for information, and Harvey Levin has acknowledged “paying for tips” only when TMZ's reporters can “independently verify” the story.
   TMZ was criticized for using stolen items pertaining to the upcoming Indiana Jones 4. On October 2, 2007, IESB reported that a number of production photos and sensitive documents pertaining to the production budget were stolen from Steven Spielberg’s production office. According to IESB, TMZ obtained some of the stolen property and were on the verge of running the story on its TV division until Paramount lawyers stepped in. After IESB broke this story, TMZ TV did indeed broadcast details about the Indiana Jones production budget on the October 3, 2007 program.
   TMZ has constantly been criticized on their own website, via the comment system, for their constant bombardment of celebrities and making humor out of celebrities' difficulties in life. Most recently, widespread condemnation has been levied against TMZ for the posting of the name and picture of a celebrity's son, who at 14 is involved in a sex crime investigation, a violation of California law.

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