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Views of the News: The Dems' Turn; Pouting Journalists; Hot Mic, Lost Job; The NYT and the CIA

And Now The Dems' Turn

Beth Fouhy, AP: "For conventions, TV viewing down, social media up"

Lee Rainie and Aaron Smith, Pew Internet & American Life Project: "Politics on Social Networking Sites"

Jennifer Vanasco, Columbia Journalism Review: "Don't posit 'what women think' without quoting any"

Howard Kurz, The Daily Beast: "Democratic Convention Dilemma: Obama 2012 vs. Obama 2008"

Dylan Byers, Politico: "Media: Obama is egotistical, selfish, dull"

Pouting Political Journalists

Dylan Byers, Politico: "Reporters: We loath 2012 campaign"

Roger Simons, Politico: "Pity party: Suck it up, media"

Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic: "Why Do Americans Hate the Media? Just Watch the Conventions"

Joe Battenfeld and Hillary Chabot, The Boston Herald: "Media get VIP treatment in N.C."

Hot Mic, Lost Job

Jack Shafer, Reuters: "Why the Yahoos at Yahoo were wrong to fire David Chalian"

Erik Wemple, The Washington Post" "Yahoo's Chalian fired for inexcusable remark"

The NYT and the CIA

Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian: "Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA"

Jack Mirkinson, The Huffington Post: "Mark Mazzetti: 'I Made A Mistake' Passing Maureen Dowd Column To CIA"

Arthus Brisbane, The New York Times: "Pre-Publication Disclosure of Dowd Column A Breach of Two Boundaries"

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.