New Yorker Piece Suggests TMZ Got Solange Knowles Video for a Song

A.k.a. a lot less than what Page Six reported.

When Harvey Levin spoke last spring to students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, his half-hour presentation was titled “The New Journalistic Environment.” This weekend, to frame Nicholas Schmidle’s long-awaited look at the inner workings of TMZ, the editors of The New Yorker preferred “The Digital Dirt.”

Schmidle was among those in attendance at UCSB on Saturday, April 25. Rather comically, when the reporter introduced himself to Levin, the TMZ head honcho expressed displeasure at Schmidle’s tactics for The New Yorker story, maneuvers which on a scale of one to TMZ rate about a “4.”

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