Look, we know that tabloid magazines lie. That’s a given. Even their most ardent fans don’t actually, deep down believe the stuff they’re reading. But there are some standards that should be kept. Standards like, I don’t know, the English language. That’s why this Gossip Cop story about OK! Magazine (they of the similarly ridiculous Jennifer Aniston pregnancy report) and their cover touting a “confirmed” pregnancy for Jessica Simpson is so insulting. The word “confirmed” kind of means something.

Yesterday, Mediaite celebrated its first anniversary with a lovely and congratulatory note from founder Dan Abrams. Recently, Abrams conducted an interview with Huffington Post Media, in which he explained the success of Mediaite and other sites he’s launched, as well as plans for future sites as well. A portion of the interview is excerpted below.

Big news! Actress Lindsay Lohan has just been sentenced to 90 days in jail– and no, not for Herbie: Fully Loaded. Lohan’s repeated infractions on her probation, including skipping her alcohol education classes, finally forced Judge Marsha Revel to sentence her with prison time, which is slated to begin on July 20.

Lindsay Lohan is in court today and may receive jail time for violating her probation which she was put on after a couple of DUI arrests. The judge has already ruled that she won’t go to jail for the instance last month when her alcohol-monitoring bracelet showed positive traces for alcohol. However, she may still end up behind bars for missing some court-ordered alcohol education sessions, something that CNN’s Tony Harris pointed out would be plenty cause for all of us non-Hollywood starlets.

It is hard to believe it’s been a full year since our newbie website with the awkward-sounding name was welcomed to the blogosphere with accolades such as “sounds…like something you’d give to a toddler suffering diarrhea,” or “no one really cares about the business and personalities behind the media,” or my personal favorite, “Mediaite feels a bit doomed.” Ah, yes — that honeymoon period was so sweet. We all love to curl up with the scrapbook and reminisce about the early days.

Gossip Cop is reporting that former View host Rosie O’Donnell is in negotiations with NBC regarding her new talk show, which is being aimed for the 2011 season.

Nobody would be that shocked to discover that celebrity gossip tabloids occasionally print false statements, but, earlier today, Gossip Cop caught OK! Magazine (a magazine whose title is either a shouted declaration or the name of a musical) printing a cover story that goes beyond the typical level of tabloid lies. The magazine cover proudly proclaims a story about Jennifer Aniston’s baby plans that Aniston’s reps told Gossip Cop is all sorts of untrue. Come on, OK! Magazine, we expect better from you. You’re supposed to be a celebrity gossip tabloid, not a British celebrity gossip tabloid.

When the National Enquirer started the rumor about Matt Lauer cheating on his wife, it was disputed by Lauer, the Today show and more – and when HollyScoop.com reported it was with Alexis Houston, Whitney Houston‘s step-sister, GossipCop was there to clean up the mess – not true, not related to Whitney.

How much more BS could there be in this story? Well now we find out that Alexis Houston isn’t even Alexis Houston.

Gossip Cop is reporting exclusively that Rosie O’Donnell has signed a deal to bring a new talk show to TV syndication for the 2011-2012 season, Gossip Cop has learned exclusively. Dick Robertson, former president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, is one of the driving forces behind the show.

With preliminary numbers in – and things will change a bit – it appears yesterday’s Oscars garnered about 14 percent more viewers than last year’s show. Read the full story at Gossip Cop.

HollywoodLife.com managed — shockingly — to sink to a new low today. This afternoon the site posted an “exclusive” claiming Tom Cruise had been hurt in a motorcycle accident at around 12:00 PM PT outside KOI Restaurant in Los Angeles. Read the rest at Gossip Cop.

Earlier today Britney Spears posted a list of the top 75 most inaccurate stories written about her in 2009. Reuters picked up the story and (we assume) inadvertently included with it a slide show of the other Brittany who has sadly been making the headlines this week: Brittany Murphy. Way to make Britney Spears’ inaccuracy point for her, folks!

Gossip Cop, the entertainment blog — and Mediaite cousin site — which polices the celebrity rumor mill, has joined forces with OK! Magazine, teaming up on a weekly full page print feature entitled “Real or Rumor.” The celeb weekly magazine will partner with the website to expose the untruths that run rampant in the gossip industry, beginning in the December 7th issue, available now. Read the whole press release inside!

RadarOnline reported exclusively today that Chris Cuomo had resigned as co-anchor of Good Morning America, and speculated that he might land as host of NBC’s Dateline. According to GossipCop it turns out that they got this entirely wrong. Cuomo has not resigned from ABC nor GMA. Update – ABC confirms that the rumor is completely untrue.

Star Magazine running a misleading cover? Say it ain’t so! The jury is out on whether Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie truly had “the fight to end all fights,” but Star definitely ran a misleading cover story on their fight or alleged fight. Gossip Cop has the deets:

No, Britney Spears is not giving herself to Satan — but you might get that impression if you were reading her Tweets this morning. Gossip Cop broke the news that Spears’s Twitter account has ‘announced’ that she gives herself to Lucifer every day and that she awaits the New World Order. We have screenshots:

It would have been easy to confuse the New York Times for a celebrity gossip rag last week when they lead a story about the actress Sienna Miller by recounting her sexual exploits and all but calling her floozy. As reported by Gossip Cop, the paper goes so far to develop Miller’s femme fatale image that they referred to her engagement to Jude Law as a “fling” and reported two false sexual relationships.

Reports surfaced today of a very strange lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against Dr. Phil McGraw, two producers and another doctor. The lawsuit includes many claims, but most notable are false imprisonment, practicing with out a license and indecent exposure.

In September 2005, Gossip Cop‘s Michael Lewittes had a random encounter with David Letterman and his assistant, Stephanie Birkitt. Four years later — in the midst of Letterman’s affair/extortion super story — the serendipitous encounter seems less like a charming coincidence and more like a priceless insider’s anecdote.

Over at Gossip Cop, a new video clip has surfaced of the First Lady of California, Maria Shriver, politely yet effectively dismissing a nagging paparazzo. The cameraman confronts Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife and son at the mall, calling himself a “big fan” before urging that Shriver “talk some sense into her husband.” In a terse response Shriver shoots back, “I think you can do better than this, okay?” and carries on with her day. Check out the clip inside.

I do not hate Perez Hilton. But I hate what Perez Hilton has done to journalism. He routinely reports rumors as if they are real stories without bothering to fact-check them. Consequently, because of his tremendous reach, inaccurate gossip becomes gospel.

This week reports surfaced that Bob Dylan was considering lending his voice to a GPS navigation system. Numerous mainstream media sources picked up the story and ran it as hard news — BBC, NY Times, and the Washington Post all published stories about the convergence of 60′s folk rock and the latest in automotive technology. But as Gossip Cop reported today, this story doesn’t exactly check out.

Gossip Cop is reporting that both the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles station KTLA are prominently featuring a bogus online video that stars an allegedly alive Michael Jackson walking out of an L.A. coroner’s van. The 30-second clip, courtesy of Live Leak, is impossibly shaky and features a literally three-second glimpse of a shadowy waif with dark hair exiting a van from the back.

British tabloids are notorious for playing fast and loose with their celebrity gossip, but rare is the occasion where they admit fault. Just last week we reported about the charmingly libelous British tabloid The Sun, and their baseless allegations that gypsies sabotaged police helicopters.

Well, now we can add another item to the list of British tabloid blunders, though this time it comes with an apology.