Harvey Levin

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508 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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On with Kara Swisher · TMZ’s Harvey Levin Says Politics Is Pop Culture · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

And we have done that from day one.

And guess what?

So does everybody else.

And I kind of love the fact that there were a lot of news organizations that came out and said, oh, my God, TMZ is paying for videos.

And I love that because it was an advertisement to other people saying, hey, contact TMZ because they pay for it, too.

There are photo agencies that they license things with all the time.

And we had a guy here whose father-in-law sold a picture of a burning apartment building to the LA Times for $100 in an LA Times hat.

And that was 25 years ago.

So everybody pays for photos.

Everybody pays for video.

What you don't pay for are interviews because then you're incentivizing people to make things up to make it worthwhile.

And let me just say that we get tons of tips because, you know, I have reporters here and the idea is establish relationships, work with people.

When we get, you know, when we broke, oh, I don't know, Bobby Christina's death, Whitney Houston's daughter, you know.

It's like, what are we going to call people up randomly and say, hey, we're going to pay you.

Somebody's going to say, how dare you?

And it's going to come out that we offered it.

And you're not hearing it because it doesn't happen.

It's the same standard.

And look, we have researchers, we have producers, we have lawyers.

We vet things here.

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