How to make the meta tag of the story page the story title

[oobie11]

Currently when Im on a story page the meta description is the story content. I want to make the meta description the story title.
I have tried entering this into the meta.tpl with no luck

{elseif $pagename eq 'story'}
<meta name="description" content="{$title_short}" />

What should I do?
Thanks.