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harvey levin, the former local news legal analyst and street reporter turned flamboyant infotainment show reporter and legal analyst, has bitten the hand that feeds him in his new role running the “interactive” hollywood website tmz.com.

tmz sends kids with video cameras to stand outside hotpots to provoke celebrities to go wild. the site made a stir when billionaire scumheir brandon davis went off on a filthy obscene tirade against lindsay lohan, while his companion paris hilton giggled like a moron. now it’s seeking headlines, claiming the woody harrelson attacked one of its operatives.

but harvey might regret his latest stunt, trying to milk publicity out of a confrontation with a hollywood good guy— an adult who stumbled into the silliness. because tmz is no renegade Internet independent. it’s a cog in the corporate machine.

and it could be throwing a spanner into the works.

a few nights ago, one of tmz’s kids with a camera managed to bait harrelson as he stepped out of a hollywood nightspot. the actor asked the kid to get the camera out of his face. the kid mouthed off, and while a second tmz stalkerazzi recorded a wide shot of the scene, woody allegedly broke the kid’s camera. read more (read the comments too!)