Us Weekly Calls Out the Competition's Blunders, Glosses Over Its Own

Don't get us wrong: We have exactly zero personal grudges with Janice Min (though it'd be nice if she started replying to our emails again), much as we don't have personal grudges with anyone, really. (Even Marty Singer is a Friend of Jossip, little does he know.) But when she puts herself out there, as she does in this week's Us Weekly on page 70, she must know by now that we're going to call her on it.

So here we have "All The News That's Fake: That's faux biz! A Look at 'stories' too shocking to be true." Mark Cina is signed up to look at the competition – Northern & Shell's OK!, Bauer's In Touch and Life & Style, and AMI's Star ("led" by Janice's former boss) – and find out where those other glossies took the story too far.

There's OK!'s J. Lo-Marc Anthony split, In Touch's boob jobs (debunker: celeb publicists deny their clients had work done!), Life & Style claiming Jennifer wants Brad back, and Star's claim that Katie was thinking about divorcing Tom.

But this is the tabloid biz. And try as she might, even Janice isn't immune to getting it wrong.

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To kick things off, let's start out with Us Weekly's doozies of inaccuracy: There's the cover where Vince Vaughn proposed to Jennifer Aniston (and she said yes!). That Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are having a boy. (They didn't.) And that Britney Spears' second child is a girl. (Again, it wasn't.)

Elsewhere, then there was the item about Tom and Katie's new house in the UK; turns out it was the house of someone who merely looked like Cruise. Also, that Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova secretly wed. And that George Clooney was dating one of the Deal or No Deal girls who, it turns out, he had never met.

And don't get us started on Us' involvement in setting up Teri Hatcher in a photographed smooch with Ryan Seacrest. Or when Us staffers snapped shots of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline on their honeymoon, promising the couple they were for personal use and not for publication. (They were published. On the cover.) If not actually getting the story wrong, at the very least they violated some barely-there ethical code the tabloids supposedly have.

Not that there was much to choose from or anything.

May 3, 2007 · posted by David Hauslaib, Jossip · Link · 4 Responses
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