Amy Odell over at New York Magazine's fashion blog, The Cut, just called Newsweek out for saying Michelle Obama was going to be on Vogue's March cover. Turns out, that tidbit -- which was reported in last week's cover story -- isn't true:

Amy writes:

Our heart skipped a beat when we read the following in the Newsweek cover story from last week about Michelle Obama:

…Michelle looks nothing like the supermodels who rule the catwalks or the porcelain-faced actresses who hawk must-have cosmetics. Yet now she's going to grace the March cover of Vogue magazine — the ultimate affirmation of beauty.

Yes, those lines were buried in a giant feature story as if they were nothing, with no further details. Oh, Newsweek. But are they true? We asked Vogue about the slip and a spokesman told us, "That was incorrect. We're still very interested in working with her, but it still hasn't been specifically determined what we're going to do." Booooo. However, at least we know something involving both Vogue and Michelle is in the works. Who knew Newsweek was such a tease?

So where did that fact come from? I asked Allison Samuels, who wrote the story, to explain. She says that her information came from "someone inside Vogue" and that her source told her "they were working on the cover and Michelle's people acknowledge that but now they are saying it might not happen... it may be later in the year now...but their [original] plan was for March."

After the piece ran, Samuels told me that Michelle's people called her to say that the cover shoot wasn't a done deal. But, to me, it looks like Vogue -- or the Obama camp -- may have pulled the 'ol switcheroo.

That's the charge levied by the New York Post in this week's Media City column:

 "After innumerable guest appearances that have helped make Newsweek's pages seem uncomfortably out-sourced of late, Fareed Zakaria is on staff as a columnist and overseas editor. The time, the perennial gloom-and-doom-sayer of American power and prestige hits that mark with a well-timed essay on the Mumbai terrorist attacks..."

AdAge surveyed college students about their favorite brands, and found some fascinating (if not perplexing) results:

While in some cases the results were predictable, there were a few surprises. Time magazine, for instance, ranked as the No. 1 magazine, unseating perennial favorite Cosmo and jumping ahead of last year's No. 2, People. CNN.com made it into the top 10 websites for the first time, while sites such as Perez Hilton and CollegeHumor dropped off the list.