Today's Fox 411 column from Roger Friedman included with it a little update about Jermaine Dupri's split from Virgin Records' Urban Division following the sales slump of girlfriend Janet Jackson. Also included? A reference to a previous column that, supposedly, broke the news "exclusively." And all it takes is one mention of "exclusive" to get our Scoop Wars synapse firing.

From today's Fox 411:

We told you exclusively on Saturday [Oct 21st], but it has since then been confirmed that producer Jermaine Dupri, boyfriend of Janet Jackson, has left Virgin Records, and the complete flop of Janet’s new album is the reason.

Oh, but wait, what's that? You say that even if Friedman has the story on Oct. 21, the tag team Rush & Molloy had that story .. the day before? From R&M on Friday, Oct. 20:

We told you on Monday that Jermaine Dupri had threatened to quit his job as president of Virgin Record's urban music division because he blamed his colleagues for badly marketing the CD of his girlfriend, Janet Jackson. Yesterday, sources said Dupri was in fact out of there. A rep for Virgin CEO Jason Flom had no comment by deadline.

And, to be sure, the Monday mentioned was Oct. 16, giving George and Joanna a full five-day lead on Friedman's column. And the obvious winner in this round of Scoop Wars is: Rush & Molloy.