Our recent segment about the social games craze got one of our guests, Mia Consalvo, of MIT, thinking more about the concept of cheating in social games. She wrote a blog post for On Point. Have you “cheated” in social games?

After our show on the state of the news media, guest Charles Madigan had some more thoughts on the topic, which he sent to us. Here’s what he wrote.

The Shirley Sherrod story turns a spotlight on big problems in the quality of our national information flow. We ask what’s news, what’s propaganda?

We get inside Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” with high-humored “Daily Show” correspondent Samantha Bee.

Our show today explored the Obama administration’s tough stance on leaks to the press. Kim Zetter of “Wired” magazine talked about the role of the stateless whistleblower site Wikileaks.org.

President Obama is coming down hard on leaks to the press – prosecuting even more aggressively than predecessor George W. Bush. We look at the leaks and the crackdown.

Here are a few more pictures from our special event on Monday, when Tom interviewed Elizabeth Warren. Enjoy the short slideshow…

The New Yorker names its top fiction writers under 40. Three talk to us.

A critic says we live in a world of media myths, from “The War of the Worlds” to Watergate. We look at when the press gets it wrong.

Facebook faces up to outrage over its privacy policy. We look at the mea culpas and the new face of privacy online.

If you’re interested in our segment today on Facebook and privacy, here are a few more related items, including audio from CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement.

New York Times chief Bill Keller and Notre Dame professor Scott Appleby have engaged in a running online dialogue following a recent On Point show. The exchange began when Keller emailed host Tom Ashbrook to say that some of Appleby’s on-air remarks were a “slanderous bit of nonsense.”



Updates: Appleby responds to Keller, and Keller replies back. .

Before Jon Stewart there was The Onion. We’ll talk with writers for the satirical news site about their brand of fake-news humor.

ACORN under fire. Conservatives have attacked the liberal organizing group for years — now, ACORN’s in real trouble. We’ll take stock of the ACORN scandal.

Walter Cronkite defined the role of the TV news anchorman and won America’s trust. We look at Cronkite and television news, then and now.

The week-in-the-news roundtable always involves tough choices on sound clips – what to include, what to leave out. Amid all the pressing hard news, we often give a nod to a notable person who’s passed away. But this week brought, well, a ridiculous range of choices.

On Point and Planet Money, together at last! We talk with NPR’s Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum about what they’ve learned covering the economic crisis, and where it’s going.

In today’s first hour, James Fallows noted that the Chinese government is avoiding any mention of the 20th anniversary, on June 4, of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The event is effectively being erased from collective memory.

The Department of Homeland Security circulates a controversial report to law enforcement on the rise of extremist groups — and Secretary Napolitano apologizes.

More newspapers bite the dust. Will a million bloggers save, maybe even improve, the news? Or not?