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The Year’s 10 Best Cover Lies

Maybe we should call this post the worst Cover Lies , as the most egregiously mendacious covers are often the most fun to mock. Regardless, here’s a little tour of what some of the glossies were really saying in 2009. Looking at a whole bunch of old Cover Lies is a great way to remind yourself that ladymags just recycle the same old weight-loss, man-snagging, and faux-self-improvement tropes again and again and again

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The Year’s 10 Best Cover Lies

The Michael Jackson FBI Files Reveal…

The files are a ” snooze ” according the the LA Times , ” explosive ” according to the New York Post (which puts the story on the front page) and reveal a terrorist plot , according to the AP . The files were released yesterday, and reporters have clearly been poring over them since

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The Media Holiday Party Circuit: Drunken Ragers, Fierce Danceoffs, and The Food at the ______ Party

Everyone got crunk at the IAC/ College Humor /Daily Beast X-Mas party. Did you? Did Julia Allison

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The Media Holiday Party Circuit: Drunken Ragers, Fierce Danceoffs, and The Food at the ______ Party

Spoiler Filled Stills From Iron Man 2: What’s Happening To Tony?

Last night the first ever trailer for Iron Man 2 was released, and it is jam-packed with spoilery goodies. Here’s a shot-by-shot break down of what we noticed. Uh oh, Pepper looks pissed.

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Fox to Beck: Maybe You Should Cut Back on the Gold a Little?

Something’s gone terribly wrong at Fox News —they keep responding to criticism as if it’s valid! Someone at the network sent a letter to Glenn Beck wondering why he’s always constantly shilling for gold. Recently, Fox has begun actually acknowledging mistakes , responding to satirical criticism , apologizing for errors, , and even promising to stop lying all the time.

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Fox to Beck: Maybe You Should Cut Back on the Gold a Little?

Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of ‘Inclement Weather’

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein , Citigroup chairman Dick Parsons , and Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack all skipped out on a scheduled dressing-down today from Barack Obama because “inclement weather” made it physically impossible for them to travel to Washington. Convenient! Obama met with 10 top banking executives, or “fat cats” as he’s taken to calling them these days , to yell at them for not lending enough money and generally being horrible people. But the worst of them, Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein, is among the three that are participating via conference call because fog made it impossible for them to deploy the billions of dollars under their control in service of transporting them bodily to Washington, D.C

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Wall St. Bankers Snub Obama, Duck D.C. Sit-Down Because of ‘Inclement Weather’

Sex and the Scientologist: From the Desk of L. Ron Hubbard

We have got hold of some of the original memos that L. Ron Hubbard passed down in the early days of Scientology — they are still revered today as a foundation for the cult.

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Sex and the Scientologist: From the Desk of L. Ron Hubbard

From the Desk of L. Ron Hubbard

We have got hold of some of the original memos that L. Ron Hubbard passed down in the early days of Scientology — they are still revered today as a foundation for the cult. Today: L

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The Intimate Facebook CEO Pics Exposed By Facebook’s Privacy Rollback

Facebook controversially forced profile pictures into public and pushed users to share candids with the whole world. So now we’re blessed with pics of the social network’s young CEO shirtless, romantic, clutching a teddy bear, and looking plastered

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The Intimate Facebook CEO Pics Exposed By Facebook’s Privacy Rollback

Facebook Begins ‘Privacy’ Con

It would seem our conspiracy theory is coming true: Facebook’s big push to give you “more control of your information” is actually an initiative to get you to give up control of your information. Step one: Frame greed as concern. Facebook’s 350 million+ users are being greeted by the dialog below, an “Important..

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Facebook Begins ‘Privacy’ Con