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Views of the News: TV campaign ads; Papers burning; Obamacare messup; Cooper's Out - So What?

A License to Print Money

Brian Naylor, NPR: "Swing State TV Stations Spiking Ad Rates As Campaign Cash Pours In"

Suzanne Vranica, The Wall Street Journal: "ESPN Grabs Political Football"

Annenberg Public Policy Center's FlackCheck.org: "Urge TV stations to check third party ads before airing them"

Lyman Morales, Gallup: "America's Confidence in Television News Drops to New Low"

Papers Setting Selves on Fire

David Carr, The New York Times: "The Fissures are Growing for Papers"

Alan D. Mutter, Newsosaur blog: "What's Next for Newspapers?"

Anna Tarkov, Poynter: "Journatic worker takes 'This American Life' inside outsourced journalism"

Robert Andrews, Paid Content: "Young tablet owners more willing to pay for news"

Jumping the Gun and Getting It Wrong

Tom Goldstein, SCOTUSblog: "We're getting wildly differing assessments"

Amy Sullivan, The New Republic: "Who Reported It First? Who Cares?"

What We Still Don't Know About Obamacare

Walter Shapiro, Columbia Journalism Review: "Why is 'issue coverage' so boring -- and often wrong?"

Meg Handley, US News: "What the Obamacare Ruling Means for Consumers"

Kaiser Family Foundation: "Health Reform Quiz"

Christopher Weaver & Louise Radnofsky, The Wall Street Journal: "States Interpret Ruling to Cut Medicaid Now"

Emily Ramshaw, The Texas Tribune: "Perry: TX Won't Implement Key Elements of Health Reform"

The Worst Kept Secret

Ross Luippold, Huffington Post: "Anderson Cooper Comes Out: 14 Things That Shocked Us More"

Jennifer Vanasco, Huffingtn Post: "Why It Matters That Anderson Cooper Came Out as Gay"

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.