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Ever since The New York Times opened its archives to one and all, journalist Jeremy Olshan has jubilantly mined its riches "to prove that everything news is old." Derek Jeter strays into a tax mess? Big whoop! The ball players and umps from 1919 found themselves in a just such a brouhaha. Alarmed over reports of a tsunami smacking the East Coast? Readers were similarly rattled, back in 1878. School officials and teachers tussle over tenure? Yeah, we've heard it before—the year we entered World War I. And, just to prove the steadiness of the New York character, a recent post covering "umbrella umbrage" on Manhattan's sidewalks reminds us that "New Yorkers have been whining in the rain for more than 75 years." Thank heavens for a little consistency.

Shortly after Gawker Media—the rudest kids on the blogging block—launched a web site focused on women's media, we knew there was going to be some mudpack-slinging ahead in the world of women's magazines. And it wasn't long before Jezebel's editors announced they would pay handsomely for real evidence of the airbrushing chicanery that goes into the covers of magazines like Vogue, Elle, Glamour, and Redbook. That day has arrived, and one sneaky Jezebel reader grew $10,000 richer while the rest of us grew a bit wiser about Photoshop foolery in the media. Compare the original Redbook cover photo to its digitally-enhanced alter ego. Did beautiful, 39-year-old country singer Faith Hill really need to have a few lines erased, a hand transformed into an arm, another appendage digitally liposuctioned, and a myriad other mutations? The outcry about this muckraking has been loud, if not entirely clear. Could this be the end of the airbrush apparent? If Jezebel keeps it up, maybe someday you can start really judging a Redbook by its cover.