Earlier this week, online media outlets published excerpts from Harper's Bazaar's July cover story about Angelina Jolie. What they failed to acknowledge is how the legendary fashion bible pulled an image from a wire service for its cover, and never actually interviewed the star. Instead it featured a topical essay by Naomi Wolf on Angelina's mythical allure.

This is rather unheard of for a publication of Bazaar's stature and is definitely a sign of the struggling economy. (Voguers would probably sell off their first born before letting this happen.)

The typical process for fashion magazine cover stories involves an exclusive shoot and interview, but as first reported on New York Mag's site, this was not the case. The recycled image was pulled from last December's Los Angeles premiere of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." And Wolf's feature doesn't have a single quote from Jolie.