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Views of the News: Horses, Bayonets; BBC Scandal; Paperless Newsweek; Dueling Tablets; Dinner Jokes

Horses, Bayonets and Other Debate Snark

Glenn Chapman, Agence France Press: "Obama's 'horses and bayonets' remark goes viral"

Brian Slattery, The Heritage Foundation: "'Horses and Bayonets' Remark is a Disrespectful Oversimplification"

Laura Vozzella, The Washington Post: "Obama's 'horses and bayonets' debate jab makes few ripples in Va.'s Navy country"

Margaret Sullivan, The New York Times: "Contradictions and Confusion on an Agreement With Iran"

Michael Gerson, The Washington Post: "Relentlessly reassuring Romney"

Harold Meyerson, The Washington Post: "What Romney's moderation conceals"

Rebecca Shapiro and Jack Mirkinson, Huffington Post: "Bob Schieffer Debate Moderating: CBS Anchor Stays Above the Fray, Criticized For Letting Debate Stray From Foreign Policy"

Dylan Byers, Politico: "No debate: Bob Schieffer got it just right"

Alexander C. Kaufman, The Wrap: "Bob Schieffer on Debate Criticism: 'This is Their Campaign'"

Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News: "'Obama bin Laden': Schieffer's debate gaffe unfortunate but not unusual"

BBC vs. BBC Over Coverup Allegations

Australian AP: "BBC in 'very grave' crisis after sex claims against more staff"

Peter Jukes, The Daily Beast: "BBC Director-General Faces Parliament in Jimmy Savile Affair. Can the BBC Restore Its Reputation?"

Can Post-Paper Newsweek Survive?

Keach Hagey, The Wall Street Journal: "Newsweek Quits Print"

Susan Currie Sivek, PBS Mediashift: "What Can Newsweek Learn from Gourmet's Move to Digital-Only?"

Alyssa Rosenberg, Think Progress: "How Newsweek Can Learn From the Atlantic As It Ends Its Print Edition"

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, New York Observer: "First They Came for Newsweek: Is a Second Media Winter On the Way?"

Dueling Tablets: iPad Mini vs. Microsoft Surface

Mark Prigg, The Daily Mail: "A good day to bury bad news? Critics slam 'disappointing' Microsoft Surface tablet as all eyes are on the iPad mini"

Brooke Crothers, CNet: "Is Apple trying to bury Microsoft under a product avalanche?"

Knowlton Thomas, TechVibes: "Tablet Journalism Has Failed"

Amy Schmitz Weiss, The Hub: "Tablet Design and Storytelling"

Jokes Over Dinner

Superman Prefers News Aggregators

Brian Truitt, USA Today: "Clark Kent makes a major life change in new 'Superman'"

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.