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Sign of the Times, Part One:
No sooner did word leak out that Mark Zuckerberg will appear on Oprah today to announce a donation of $100 million to the Newark public school system than the media long knives were unsheathed.
According to the naysayers, the Facebook CEO was making the donation to counteract the negative depiction of him in The Social Network as, in the words of the New York Post, "a conniving backstabber who may have stolen the idea for his social networking site."
Or he was making it "as a way to ward off any negative stigma" arising from his new standing on the Forbes 400 as America's 35th wealthiest person. New York magazine called it "the PR move of the
