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Have you guys noticed the relatively new website TMZ? We've linked to it a few times (notably, they had a lot of documents from the Paris Hilton lawsuit); it's a new entertainment news site that, so far as we can tell, features a lot of the typical wire stuff plus a decent handful of original reporting. It's not half bad, if you like watching celebrity lookalikes traipse around Fashion Week and learning that underage stars drink.

But here's the thing: every time TMZ has a new story of even the teeniest interest to maybe three people in all of the world, they send a mass email all over Mediaville, to editors ranging from the trivial (yours truly) to the serious (real newspaper folk). Some recent examples:

• TMZ: Stacy and Drew — No Shows For the Final Show?
• TMZ Exclusive: Holmes' Chutzpah
• TMZ Exclusive: Underage Stars Party Illegally at Clubs
• TMZ: K-Fed and Cheney—Armed and Dangerous!

We receive these emails between, oh, one and four times a day. Don't get us wrong, we live for our emailed tips, but we seriously don't need to hear Carrie Underwood speak out about her fingernails, we don't need to know that Britney's eating a candy, and we certainly don't care if Paris Hilton scratches her crotch.

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