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Views of the News: Fact-Check Fracas; Convention Experiments; Public Editor's Shot; Armstrong Legacy

Just Whose Facts?

Josh Feldman, Mediaite: "Romney Pollster: We Won't 'Let Our Campaign Be Dictated By Fact-Checkers'"

Greg Sargent, The Washington Post: "Fact checking for thee, but not for me"

The editors, National Review Online: "PolitiFiction"

Robert Rector, The Heritage Foundation: "Ending Work for Welfare: Bogus Measures of Success"

David Zweig, The Atlantic: "Everyone's a Fact-Checker"

Women's Media Center, "Three-Quarters of Newspapers' Presidential Coverage Written by Men"

Convention Experiments: "Groping Cheerfully"

Bill Adair,  PolitiFact: "Our free new app: Settle It! PolitiFact;s Argument Ender"

Cory Bergman, LostRemote: "Second screen apps identify who paid for that political TV ad"

Janko Roettgers, GigaOm: "Boxfish's new TV guide iPad app is like crack for news junkies"

Jeremy Peters, The New York Times: "How the Media Adapt When News Is Scarce"

Alex Fitzpatrick, Mashable: "Obama, Comedians Top Tuesday's Republican Convention Tweets"

Public Editor's Parting Shot

Arthur S. Brisbane, The New York Times: "Success and Risk as The Times Transforms"

Dylan Byers, Politico: "NYT's Abramson rebuts Brisbane charge"

Greg Mitchell, The Nation: "Public Editor's Parting Shot at 'NYT': More Blather About 'Liberal Bias'"

Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary: "Stating the Obvious About NY Times Bias"

One Small Step for (a) Man...

Staff, Agence France Presse: "Neil Armstrong Was No Fan of Cost-Cutting NASA"

Traci Watson, USA Today: "Armstrong spent last years fighting for human spaceflight"

David Bauder, AP: "Neil Armstrong's Death Draws Limited Television Coverage"

Paul Harris, The Guardian: "Neil Armstrong's death prompts yearning for America's past glories"

Rainne Mendoza Celespara, Examiner.com: "Neil Armstrong: How the modern generation pays tribute to his legacy"

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.