Eleven SUNY Plattsburgh students have agreed to participate in a public TV program about hazing and alcohol abuse -- and help pay for it -- in a plea bargain after the fraternity pledging death of a freshman, The Saratogian reports. The media lab at Mountain Lake PBS is producing.

A journalist new to radio, John Solomon of WNYC's On the Media, exposes some of the artifice of radio postproduction, which makes pubradio people sound lots more articulate than they are. To make the point, co-host Bob Garfield is stripped bare and flogged. Solomon says the magic is better hidden in radio than in TV or print. [Audio file.]