By Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA
Posted on July 1, 2009 at 2:35pm

How TMZ Succeeds in the Celebrity Death and Disaster Watch

-- Writing in the Washington Post on July 1, 2009, Paul Farhi applauds the success of TMZ in the celebrity death and disaster watch.

Farhi asked Harvey Levin, the founder of the site, if TMZ "just got lucky" in being first to report the death of Michael Jackson. Levin said:

"If you look at the site since we launched, you'll see thousands of stories we've broken," says Levin, rattling off scoops about Mel Gibson's drunken, anti-Semitic rant and Anna Nicole Smith's and Heath Ledger's overdose deaths. (TMZ was also the first to carry surreptitiously recorded tirades by actors Alec Baldwin and Christian Bale.) "This is a news operation. All we have done is applied the traditional skills of news reporting. Honest to god, it's that simple."

The full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063004200.html

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