© 2024 University of Missouri - KBIA
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Views of the News: Rush, Maher, Money; Un-Friending Over Politics; KONY 2012, Olive Garden Columnist

KBIA | By Mike McKean
Published March 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM CDT

Rush, Maher, Moral Equivalence & Money

David Serchuk, Forbes: "Congratulations! You Just Made Rush Limbaugh Sympathetic!"

Melinda Henneberger, The Washington Post: "Whose war, and on which women?"

Keach Hagey, Politico: "David Axelrod bails on Bill Maher"

MJ Lee, Politico: "Rush Limbaugh: 'They thought I was finished'"

Brian Stelter, The New York Times: "After Apology, National Advertisers Are Still Shunning Limbaugh"

Facebook Friendships Don't Always Survive Political Differences

Pew Internet & American Life Project: "Social networking sites and politics"

Jeffrey Bloomer, Slate: "One in Five Drop Online Friends Over Political Posts"

Meenai Vamburkar, Mediaite: "Survey: Liberals More Likely To Block You Online For Posting Differing Opinions"

Trad Media Snipe at Most Viral Video

Noam Cohen, The New York Times: "A Video Campaign and the Power of Simplicity"

Todd Wasserman, Mashable: "'Kony 2012 Tops 100 Million Views, Becomes Most Viral Video in History"

Huffington Post: "Jon Stewart Mocks Media's Reaction to Kony 2012 Phenomenon"

Lessons From the 'Olive Garden' Columnist

videoplatformvideomanagementvideosolutionsvideoplayer

Marilyn Hagerty, Grand Forks Herald: "EATBEAT: Long-awaited Olive Garden receives warm welcome"

James R. Hagerty, The Wall Street Journal: "When Mom Goes Viral"

Thomas Rozwadowski, Green Bay Press-Gazette: "In defense of Marilyn Hagerty's small-town Olive Garden 'experience'"

SXSW Outrage -- Homeless Hotspots

Rob Waugh, London Daily Mail: "Homeless people turned into walking wi-fi hotspots at $2 per 15 minutes -- but it's causing an outcry on Twitter"
Politics
Mike McKean
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.
See stories by Mike McKean