6:30 am, December 23rd, 2009
(Us Weekly)
We couldn’t help but notice the new Us Weekly, which mocks “Fake News of the Year” in a two-page spread, highlighting the wrong rumors its tabloid competitors printed during 2009. Busting bad dish is, of course, a great idea… but Gossip Cop wondered whether the magazine knows that old expression about how people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Yes, the Us recap includes lots of covers ripe for ridicule – the Rihanna & Chris Brown’s “secret wedding“ in Star, the Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart roller coaster in OK!, etc. — but if the mag wants to talk about (ahem) “fake news,” let’s also be sure to remember that in the four months since Gossip Cop launched:
** Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel didn’t break up three months ago
** Michael Jackson’s children weren’t made a part of the Jackson family reality series
** Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer weren’t “secretly back on” because of their “private” homes
** Mickey Rourke is dating Ana Makarenko, not marrying Elena Kuletskaya
** Lindsay Lohan did not make out with Jessica Alba’s husband, Cash Warren
** Ashlee Simpson-Wentz did not imperil her marriage with wild spending
… we could go on.
The point is: Every weekly tabloid made a LOT of mistakes in 2009… and that includes Us Weekly.
Which brings us to another small point. Us Weekly may like to go after “fake news,” sometimes weeks, even months after it was reported, but Gossip Cop tackled many of those same cover stories right when they hit newsstands.
Seems to us the goal should be to nip wrong rumors in the bud, not to collect them long after they’ve blossomed.
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Mistakes? That’s being kind. Call it what it is, they LIE like rugs all the time. The more sensational headlines they think sell. USweekly is no different from any of the others. They just have more money behind them (i.e. Jann Wenner)
No offense, GossipCop, but you guys aren’t in any position to be throwing stones either. Your column is regularly featured in OK! magazine. OK! is ain’t exactly Time magazine, ya know. When are you going to tackle some of the inaccuracies in OK!? I spotted at least half a dozen last week and that was just in the photo section.
BTW, I’ll be interested to see if this comment gets posted or goes into the dreaded “moderation” or doesn’t pass the moderator’s muster. If you people want to be taken seriously for calling out the tabs, then you need to get your own house in order. Being featured in OK! is NOT cool. You know the old saying – you lie down with dogs you’ll wake up with fleas.
“Every tabloid made mistakes in 2009,” you wrote. Are you kidding me?! OMG, is that how you’re characterizing the tabloid media?? Almost portraying them as practicing the tenants of good journalism, and making “mistakes,” along the way – instead of calling them out as the slanderous lying culture-destroying slime they are. Afterall, I thought the latter was sole reason you even started this ‘watchdog,’ website, because of the absolute height of improbability of some of their stories, their blatant lies and almost (but not for a legal technicality) slander. I’m really close to telling all and sundry that this site has OFFICIALLY jumped the shark after reading that characterization, and that you are quite possibly in cahoots with the tabloid media – maybe one of the big leaguers like Bauer Publishing, afterall, why slam US Weekly, for ratting out the competition for it’s despicable lies in their own mainstream publication which whether you like it or not, has way more readership at this point than you do. No one else was doing what US Weekly is doing, converging all the lying contradictory covers in one collage and letting the people see for themselves what’s real and accurate. I am surprised that an entity such as yourself wouldn’t at least laud a fellow publication for TRYING to straighten up it’s act – and if they expose the truth, that’s the important thing. The fact that Gossipcop is discouraging US Magazine’s practice of exposing other tabloid weeklies (mostly the horrid Bauer Media and Bauer Publications) is baffling to me. This is a case at best, of tabloid cannabalism. Let them devour each other, if it means the public gets to live in peace, decency and with some semblance of accuracy in our media. I should have known Dan Abrams & Co. most likely wouldn’t have just gotten into this for his health – maybe after making a deal with OK Ragazine (so sickening), he’s also interested in partnering with Bauer — going easy on them. Letting some stories stand and others he’ll devote face time to ‘busting.’ (by the way, I’ve saved this web page) Being a member of JJB, and Just Jared, I know for a fact that a million Brangelina fans have written asking Gossipcop to ‘bust’ a story circulating right now throughout the web – they’re clamoring over there right now for some action. It’s easily debunkable – and yet NOTHING. Instead we get a story about a star trek actor maybe liking Natalie Portman, and a recycled Pattinson piece. Yet GC has time to sanction and discourage US Weekly from laying bare the lies of sleazeball outfits like the Bauer publications (Outta Touch, Outta Style, etc.)? Yeah – we’ve been taken for a ride. Maybe there will be a new watchdog site that can MAKE ITS NAME BUSTING GOSSIPCOP and it’s relationship to these big media groups (American Inc, Bauer Media, OK )…I should have known Dan and this site, weren’t just going to try and bring these culture-destroyers down. How naive I was. This is a partnership. OMG. I can’t believe I didn’t see it before. I’m literally, crushed.
Gossip Cop is right. It’s nice that Us Weekly calls out the fake news but they should also have added the stories they themselves printed that were false. I do agree if Gossip Cop is part of Ok Magazine they should be calling out OK since they are one of the worse for making up stories. Also along with bloggers like Perez ones like Lainey who just makes up a pile of crap about anyone she hates, and thats alot of celebs, should be gone after too.
Spinilli, gotta give GC credit. They called out OK! in this story,too, and I’ve noticed they’ve been doing it every week since they were first published in that rag. I guess they’re trying to prove their independent or something.
I agree with Cleo and ArcticFan47 about Gossip Cop throwing stones. Also what I find funny is Gossip Cop called out People for the Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal story about the break-up, but they were right about them not being together any more. Another thing I think is true is the stories about the relationship between Jessica and Justin,and I feel that People, US Weekly are telling the truth about their problems. Lainey doesn’t make up stuff about stars,she gets her info from people that work with them so it could be true or not.
Name one significant story GossipCop has called OK out for? My point from earlier today is really pretty simple – your credibility goes down the tubes when you begin accepting money from the people you’re supposedly “policing”. Knowing that Gossip Cop is featured in OK makes me question anything they have to say and that wasn’t necessarily the case before I saw their column in OK. I know a girl’s gotta eat and pay her bills, but…making some Faustian deal to jumpstart their business doesn’t exactly make me want to recommend this site to people – even when I know they’re right.
Justin and Jessica are still together and were just together again at a get together for the mountain climbing for clean water Jessica is doing. Lainey is so full of it and anyone that believes her are just hoping she’s right. She’s one of the worst liars on the internet. She dosen’t get shit from people who work from celebrities anymore then rags like In Touch or OK get correct information. Are people really as gullible as Sandra sounds.
^ Did I say they weren’t together I said that People and Us Weekly were right about them having problems. Yes I have read Lainey for many years and She had said many times that she get her stuff from people that work with celebrities so take it up with her. Also If you don’t like her then don’t read her stuff. I’m not gullible just because I don’t believe the shit that publicist put out there about their clients ,they are just like the rags they only put out stuff what they want you to know. I still think they’re on the verge of breaking up because there are to many rumors about them.