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Views of the News: Inaugural Memes, Media Fumble Manti, Oprah/Lance Reac, Longform Meltdown

Inauguration Day: Winners, Losers & Dominant Memes

Bill Carter, The New York Times: "Cable News Networks See Big Falloff from 2009 in Inauguration Ratings"

Andrew Beaujon, Poynter.org: "How Washingtonian lost its Beyonce lip-sync scoop"

David Gergen, CNN: "Obama's historic speech deepens divisions"

Ron Fournier, National Journal: "Chastened by His Times, Obama Falls Short of History in Inaugural Address"

Jon Walker, Fire Dog Lake: "A Surprisingly Liberal Inaugural Address"

Media Fumble Girlfriend Hoax

David S. Klein, Ad Age: "Sports Journalists Must Take Rap For Te'o Tall Tale"

Richard Sandomir and James Andrew Miller, The New York Times: "As ESPN Debated, Manti Te'o Story Slipped Away"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "How the Media Missed the Hoax of Manti Te'o and His Fictional Girlfriend"

Allan Joseph, University of Notre Dame's The Observer: "Examining our own mistakes and what went wrong"

Mallary Jean Tenore, Poynter.org: "Deadspin's Burke: Te'o story shows 'diminished role' of investigative journalism"

Reacting to Oprah and Lance

Meg James, The Los Angeles Times: "Oprah's Lance Armstrong interview seen by 28 million worldwide"

Patrick Kevin Day, The Los Angeles Times: "Lance Armstrong interview with Oprah Winfrey gets negative reactions"

Neal Karlinsky, ABC News: "Lance Armstrong May Have Lied to Winfrey: investigators"

Associated Press: "Oprah: Lance Armstrong Can Be A 'Hero' Again"

Measuring a 'Meltdown'

Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review: "Major papers' longform meltdown"

Starkman, CJR: "Longform meltdown (cont.)"

TV News Hires: Interesting Bedfellows

The Huffington Post: "Jake Tapper Makes CNN Debut"

Associated Press: "Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joins CBS News as contributor"

Alex Weprin, TV Newser: "Fox News Signs Dennis Kucinich As Contributor"

CBS Shoots Self, Other Media Conglomerates In the Foot

Katy Bachman, Adweek: "CBS' Hopper Award Knock Could Set Back Media Ownership Rules"

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.