We were, quite honestly, willing to let Janice Min’s fourth straight week of fingering the competition’s errors get a pass this week.

After all, if the Us Weekly EIC (fueled by the rage of Jann Wenner) is intent on making the other tabs look bad while ignoring her own mistakes week after week, who are we to stop the self-humiliation?

It was all fun and games in the beginning. Nobody was getting hurt, except maybe the Bauer tabs.

But in the issue that’s been sitting on newsstands for the better part of a week, Janice insisted on not just slamming her rivals at In Touch and Life & Style (and obvious punching bag OK!), but Star as well. (It’s worth noting, however, that the Star cover she chose was last week’s — helmed by new EIC Candace Trunzo, and not her former mentor Bonnie Fuller.)

And still, we thought, “Just let the lady rage!” That was, until, we read Howie Kurtz’s piece this morning.

Relays Kurtz:

“When we put it all together and saw how many times they’ve played this game of trickery, it was pretty shocking,” says Us Weekly Editor Janice Min. “Would you continue to buy laundry detergent that didn’t work week after week?”

But wait! Janice does concede that her magazine has erred in the past, too.

“We have made reporting mistakes, like any news organization,” Min says. “We have corrected them in the magazine. When it does happen, we’re mortified.”

Us Weekly also reported that Cruise and Holmes had bought an estate near London. You needed a magnifying glass to read the correction.

Speaking of mistakes made on the cover?

Well, there’s the current issue’s big fat mistake, where Janet Jackson is allowed to claim she’s kept off those 60 pounds she lost, when, as TMZ pointed out, she hasn’t. And why wouldn’t Us let Janet fudge the truth, and liberally apply some Photoshop magic? Perhaps because the issue where she lost 60 pounds turned out to be the tabloid’s best selling. And when it comes to newsstand sales, who cares about the truth?

Oh, right, Us Weekly.

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