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Views of the News: Racial Slur or Honest Mistake?; Buchanan Fired, Heartland Leak, WikiLeaks Lessons

Racial Slur or Honest Mistake?

Greg McNeal, Forbes: "ESPN Uses "Chink in the Armor" Line Twice"

Irving DeJohn and Helen Kennedy, New York Daily News: "Jeremy Lin headline slur was 'honest mistake,' fired ESPN editor Anthony Federico claims"

Josh Flagner, Yahoo! Sports: "ESPN is (Not) Racist"

Jason Fry, Poynter.org: "How ESPN published 'Chink in the Armor"

Huan Hsu, Slate: "No More Chinks in the Armor: The Jeremy Lin controversy suggests it's time to retire the phrase for good"

Tim Kenneally, The Wrap TV: "Roland Martin's On-Air Apology Gets Blessing from GLAAD"

Buchanan Out at MSNBC; Says He Was Blacklisted

Pat Buchanan, Creators Syndicate: "The New Blacklist"

Stanley Fish, The New York Times: "Missing Pat Buchanan"

Timothy Stanley, The Washington Times: "MSNBC Blacklists Buchanan"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Buchanan: Too Radioactive for MSNBC"

Marc Lamont Hill, The Philadelphia Daily News: "For democracy's sake, suffer the knuckleheads"

Menachem Z. Rosensaft, The Jewish Week: "The Sins of Pat Buchanan"

What's Good for the Goose...

Neela Banerjee, The Los Angeles Times: "Climate change doubter Heartland Institute documents leaked

Darren Samuelsohn, Politico: "Climate researcher admits leaking Heartland Institute documents"

Anything to Learn from WikiLeaks?

Bill Keller, The New York Times: "WikiLeaks, a Postscript"

Federica Cherubini, World Editors Forum: "Journalistic standards and media regulation after WikiLeaks and the News of the World"

Ed Pilkington, The Guardian: "Bradley Manning to face formal trial on February 23"

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.