Sister, Do You Know What the Word Confirmation Means?

Let’s say you have a magazine called oh, I don’t know. Sister2Sister might be a good name, let’s call it that. And in your magazine you talk about black entertainment. Let’s say your magazine talks about reality TV a lot. Are you with me so far? Good. Now let’s say that on April 24, 2012 you find yourself invited to a fundraiser honoring Debra Lee the Chairman and CEO of BET. Would you post an article about the event afterward? Yes? I would too. I would get right on it if say, I ran into Kenya Moore and we just so happened to talk about reality TV and she let it drop that she was going to be on the Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Let’s say you, um forgot. That the story just slipped your mind because you were busy writing about something else. Then ELEVEN DAYS LATER on May 5th Straight From the A says that they believe that Kenya Moore is going to be an new housewife. It’s an exclusive report. Suddenly, you remember your big exclusive from ELEVEN DAYS AGO so naturally you wait FOUR MORE DAYS and then report your big exclusive FIFTEEN days after the BET fundraiser on May 9th. You title your story, EXCLUSIVE: KENYA MOORE CONFIRMS REAL HOUSEWIVES CASTING but in your story there was no confirmation at all.

Let’s just say, if you did that, I’d be laughing my ass off. But you wouldn’t do something so shady would you? Of course not. No one would do that.