TMZ and the Outlets That Feed From It.

TMZ is a cite devoted to celebrity gossip, and entertainment and celebrity "news."

The title comes from the "Thirty Mile Zone" - referring to the "studio zone" within a 30-mile (50 km) radius of the intersection of West Beverly Boulevard and North La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles.[5] Shooting within this zone is considered local. Locations outside this zone are subject to mileage and travel time charges by the talent and crew. It's an affiliate of Timee Warner, apparently.

Anyway, I went to CBSSports today to check baseball stats to choose my next player for the Beat the Streak game, and one of the headlines the chose to run with was: Police hold [Hines] Ward at gunpoint."

Well, it was on a news site, so, although I should have known better, for a second I actualy thought there was something in it. So I clicked on the headline to read the story - which is of course what headline writers want. Then you get to the story...and there is no story.

Ward was a passenger in a car that had been reported stolen. So he'd been handcuffed as a precaution - along presumably with everyone else in the car - until the police discovered that the car had been found and returned to its owner, who hadn't told the police of its recovery.

So Ward did nothing bad, yet he's got his name plastered over headlines in probably every sports "news" outlet, despite the fact that this isn't news.

Similiarly, yesterday, some CBSSportsline blogger shared the video of baseball player Shin-Shin Soo's arrest - how they made him walk a line, how he said if he had to return to Korea his life was over... stuff that was nobody's business but his, his lawyer, and the police. Arrest videos should not be public property.