OK Mag vs. Jamie Spears - Did Budget Cuts Threaten Britney Stories?

We LOOVE this NY Post story about Jamie Spears' "tabloid gravy train" being "derailed" by budget cuts at OK Magazine ...

How would the economic pinch at OK affect Jamie, you ask? Well seeing as how he's sold pictures, interviews, and stories about his daughter to the mag for the past year or so, asking $1 million and more for some of his "package deals," now that the magazine is tightening their belt, they've had to turn down some of Jamie's more expensive offers.

Jamie Lynn's pregnancy and the first pix of Brit with the kids went to OK but now that Poppa Jamie has reportedly refused to work with the mag, the mag's banned their staff from any and all Spears events, according to the Post report.

Not true, says a rep for OK:

"We always follow the Spears - in fact, Britney is on our current cover, and we'll continue running stories about them. We need them, and they need us, and we both know it."

Yeah, a cover about how she dumped her kids to revive her career! Negative Britney covers sell just as well as positive ones, if not better, right?!