Gossip Cop’s Take on Us Weekly’s Fake News of the Year
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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