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Views of the News: Expectations, Cursing, Innovation & Bandwidth Hogs

KBIA | By Mike McKean
Published January 11, 2012 at 9:59 AM CST

The Expectations Game

Brian Stelter, The New York Times: "With a Fast and Anticipated Result, TV Analysts Shift Focus to South Carolina"

Neil King, Jr. and Gerald F. Seib, TheWall Street Journal: "Chances to Slow GOP Leader Dwindle"

Brian Darling, London Daily Mail: "It would be wrong to assume Romney's New Hampshire victory means the game is over"

David Folkenflik, NPR: "Don't Get Your Hopes Up Over This Political Coverage"

Dana Milbank, The Washington Post: "Journalists' campaign-trail secrets revealed"

Cursing, Nudity & the First Amendment

Adam Liptak, The New York Times: "TV Decency Is a Puzzler for Justices"

Al Tompkins, RTDNA: "FCC v Fox Profanity Case Will Be Crucial in Broadcast, Free Speech History"

PR Newswire: "Morality in Media Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Broadcast Indecency Standards"

National Freedom of Information Coalition: "Survey: People want more government transparency, traditional media less likely to sue to get it"

Too Much Innovation?

Patrick B. Pexton, Washington Post Ombudsman: "Is The Post innovating too fast?"

Craig Silverman, Poynter.org: "WaPost digital ME: 'I actually wish it were true that we have too much innovation'"

Melanie Sill's Editor's Notes blog: "Take it from former editors: Newspapers need bolder change"

Mathew Ingram, GigaOm: "Dear WaPo: Innovating too quickly is not the problem"

"Bandwidth Hogs"

Kevin J O'Brien, The New York Times: "Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World's Wireless Bandwidth"

Richard Adhikari, TechNewsWorld: "Wireless Data Hogs Only Getting Hungrier"

American Dialect Society: "'Occupy' is the 2011 Word of the Year"
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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.
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