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"Four key U.S. Supreme Court decisions define student free expressions rights a school administrator should understand:"

"The product of high school media classes, in many cases a yearbook or newspaper, is no more the central purpose of a scholastic journalism program than winning a football game is to team sports. Instead, it's about the process, how students engage and work together, and the level of responsibility teachers encourage throughout."

"On Monday Fond du Lac High School Principal Jon Wiltzius told journalism classes new school guidelines require that all stories meet his approval before publication and are subject to rejection. "This is a reasonable expectation," Wiltzius said. "My job is to oversee the global impact of everything that occurs within our school and I have to ensure I am representing everyone and there was some questionable content." As of 6 p.m. Tuesday the students' anti-censorship petition posted at change.org had garnered 700 signatures. It specifically petitions Superintendent Dr. James Sebert and each signature is forwarded directly to the superintendent's email account."

Facebook has made big changes to users' pages, and people are responding in droves with their metaphorical "dislike" buttons.

According to the new Forbes magazine tally, the list of the highest-paid men in entertainment is led by actor/director/screenwriter/producer/author Tyler Perry, whose films have grossed more than $500 million worldwide.

Master Photographer Jim LaSala of Flemington and co-owner of ArtisticEfex in Hillsborough image was selected for the front cover of September 2011 Professional Photographer Magazine. LaSala captured "Hope and Despair," A PPA 2011 Loan Collection image, in Port Au Prince on a trip to Haiti with a non‐profit organization who's mission is to document people who are in such need for help.

Showing that modernity might, just might, find its place even in a world predisposed to the most traditional of customs, in walks FaceGlat: an ultra-Orthodox Jewish answer, at least for some, to Facebook.

Instead of going too edgy or staying a Disney princess, Demi Lovato's Unbroken, which drops Tuesday, is a perfectly mature album without scaring away the teens that grew up loving the "Camp Rock" star.

When the Fox News host Sean Hannity arrived at Centennial Olympic Park here on Thursday night, some of the hundreds of fans who had been waiting for him since sunset rushed to the rope line for handshakes and autographs. He obliged, then bounded onto a temporary stage two blocks from the CNN Center and asked them mischievously, "Do you think it's any coincidence that the CNN logo is in the background?"

Twitter users are able to share their ideas and beliefs on topics and provide followers with various insights. I would say there are upsides and downsides to using twitter as a news source.

These are among the findings of a new study appearing this week in First Monday, a peer-reviewed online journal. The four co-authors of the study argue that such age restrictions, inspired by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, are mostly ignored by kids and parents and only encourage dishonesty.