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Views of the News: 9/11 Gaffes?; News is "Garbage"; Fact-Checkers' Opinons; AP Lewinsky's Clinton

9/11 Finger Pointing: Could It Have Been Stopped?

Kurt Eichenwald, The New York Times Opinion Page: "The Deafness Before the Storm"

Steve Inskeep, NPR: "The 'Deafness' Before the Sept. 11 Attacks"

Paul Campos, Salon: "9/11: What Bush knew"

Washington Examiner editorial: "Blame Bush: First the economy, now 9/11"

Margaret Sullivan, New York Times Public Editor: "9/11 Coverage, Part 2: With Little New to Say, Should Media Say It, Anyway?"

When Does 9/11 No Longer Lead the News?

Video from New York Magazine

Andrew Beaujon and Julie Moos, Poynter.org: "9/11 anniversary forgotten on the front page of today's New York Times"

Alex Weprin, TV Newser: "NBC's 'Today' Skips 9/11 Moment of Silence For Kardashian Interview"

Margaret Sullivan, New York Times Public Editor: "How to Cover the 11th Anniversary of 9/11?"

Jack Mirkinson, The Huffington Post: "September 11 Anniversary: Journalists Grapple With Covering Attacks As Years Go By"

Dominic Basulto, The Washington Post: "Remembering 9/11: Why the Web should help us remember better"

Millennials: News is Garbage, Lies and Boring

Jim Romenesko.com: "Study: Young People Consider News to be Garbage and Lies

Jim Romenesko Facebook Page: Comments on UT study

Newspaper Economics: $1 Gained, $25 Lost

Rick Edmonds, Poynter.org: "Newspapers get $1 in new digital ad revenue for every $25 in print ad revenue lost"

Kevin Anderson, Strange Attractor blog: "Digital advertising does pay, just not for newspapers, yet"

Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic: "Maybe This Is Why Newspapers Are Failing: Boring Headlines"

The Opinions of Fact-Checkers

L. Gordon Crovitz, The Wall Street Journal: "Double-Checking the Journalist 'Fact Checkers'"

Dan Conover, Xark blog: "Our fact-checking dilemma: What could journalists do right now?"

Michael Calderone, The Huffington Post: "AP Defends Decision To Fact-Check Bill Clinton Using Monica Lewinsky"

MIKE MCKEAN directs the Futures Lab, the experimental newsroom and technology testing center of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He founded the School's Convergence Journalism program and serves on the MU Information Technology Committee. McKean is a leader in the School's partnerships with Apple, Inc., and Adobe Systems to transform journalism education through pervasive computing. He is a frequent trainer and guest lecturer at top media companies and universities in China, has helped establish convergence journalism programs at Shantou University and Moscow State University, and has conducted Internet workshops in the United States, the Russian Federation and Albania. McKean has been honored with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and the MU Faculty-Alumni Award. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979 and a master of arts in political science from Rice University in 1985. McKean has served on the J-School faculty since 1986.