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<i>By Aaron Williams</i>
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Alec Baldwin made headlines when he and a New York Daily News photographer <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-alec-baldwin-punches-photographer-accused,0,564675.story" target="_blank">got in a scuffle</a> while the actor and fiancee Hilaria Thomas were obtaining a marriage license in New York on Tuesday morning. The photographer said he was punched, but Baldwin's camp said no punches were thrown and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-alec-baldwin-photographers-attack,0,6270011.story" target="_blank"> any contact made was in self-defense.</a>
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Of course, this isn't the first dust-up involving a celebrity and the media. Click through for more.

Celebrity-media smackdowns

( Evan Agostini / Associated Press / June 19, 2012 )

By Aaron Williams

Alec Baldwin made headlines when he and a New York Daily News photographer got in a scuffle while the actor and fiancee Hilaria Thomas were obtaining a marriage license in New York on Tuesday morning. The photographer said he was punched, but Baldwin's camp said no punches were thrown and any contact made was in self-defense.

Of course, this isn't the first dust-up involving a celebrity and the media. Click through for more.

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