Today's top stories...

We will be talking today about:

*  Tyler Clementi's death, with reference both to the Dan Savage site from last week's blog and the ethics of outing.

* We'll circle back to the Bill Ayers story.

*  The three versions of one story available at this one Fox News page.  Might have made a good example for last week's paper.

*  The Forbes stories about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.  Highlights:

• A poll conducted for FORBES by Zogby International finds 63% of Americans don't trust Facebook with their personal information. Yet more than 90% of those polled are Facebook members.
• Facebook is in direct competition with Google for advertising dollars-- the selling point being that "your friend likes this" is a stronger selling point than "here's what Google found":  "80 of the world's 100 largest advertisers are on Facebook, the company says. ... Tax prep company Intuit credits Facebook with a 15% increase in sales of its TurboTax, in a year when 2% fewer folks filed tax returns."

From your reading, the two key points, which we should talk about today, are the War of the Worlds broadcast and the debate in the Aughts about media ownership, especially in radio. 

If we do not talk about Net Neutrality today, we'll get to it next week.  Watch this space for some reading assignments.

When Justin gets here, we will hit him with some of your questions. 

* If we've got time, we'll listen to part of this story about the "War of the Worlds" event described in our textbook.



If there's more time, we may look at this video: