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Views of the News: Romney's "47 Percent"; "Innocence of Muslims"'; Pink Slime Suit; J-School Closing

Romney's "47 Percent" Video

Mother Jones: "WATCH: Full Secret Video of Private Romney Fundraiser"

Neil Cavuto, Fox News: "Romney: Redistribution does not get people back to work"

Dana Liebelson, Mother Jones: "How the Romney Video Went Viral"

Ben Smith, BuzzFeed: "The Long Strange Leak of Mitt Romney's 47% Video"

Dylan Byers, Politico: "The end of off-the-record, again"

David Brooks, The New York Times: "Thurston Howell Romney"

John Sides, The Monkey Cage blog: "Mitt Romney and that 47%"

Walter Hickey, Business Insider: "Romney's October Surprise is Going to be Legendary"

The "Innocence of Muslims" Video

NBC News: "Egypt issues arrest warrants for Terry Jones, Coptic Christians over anti-Islam video"

Bradley Hope, The National (Abu Dhabi): "TV in the dock over anti-Islam film"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Anti-Muslim Film's Bogus Jewish Roots"

Max Fisher, The Atlantic: "The History of Muslim Anti-Western Protests is Older Than Obama or Bush, Drones or Israel"

Somini Sengupta, The New York Times: "On Web, a Fine Line on Free Speech Across the Globe"

Tiffany Hsu, The Los Angeles Times: "Newsweek 'Muslim Rage' cover sets off social media. How about sales?"

Max Reed, Gawker.com: "13 Powerful Images of Muslim Rage"

The Onion: "No One Murdered Because of This Image" (includes sexually explicit cartoon)

The Huffington Post: "Top 10 South Park Episodes About Religion"

Meat Company Says It Was Slimed

Chet Brokaw and Grant Schulte, AP: "Lawyers: 'Pink slime' lawsuit an uphill climb"

Another J-School Bites the Dust

Jim Romenesko.com: "Closing Emory's Journalism Program 'Is An Unwise Decision'"

Meredith Artley, NiemanLab: "Here's what we look for when we hire young journalists, j-school grads or not"

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.