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var _NTW_stories = [{"rating":"4.5","num_reviews":"4","title":"One Town's War on Gay Teens","url":"http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/9792-one-towns-war-on-gay-teens","date":"2012/02/04","id":8549113,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Sam's death lit the fuse of a suicide epidemic that would take the lives of nine local students in under two years, a rate so high that child psychologist Dan Reidenberg, executive director of the Minnesota-based Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, declared the Anoka-Hennepin school district the site of a \"suicide cluster,\" adding that the crisis might hold an element of contagion; suicidal thoughts had become catchy, like a lethal virus.","authors":"Sabrina Rubin Erdely","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"readersupportednews.org","framebuster":false,"id":"readersupportednews_org","ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"3.8","num_reviews":"7","title":"How will technology influence the news in 2012?","url":"http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/29/technology-media-trends-2012","date":"2011/12/29","id":8488537,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"Predicting the next year's news is a fool's errand, but looking at technological trends could give us a hint At the beginning of 2011, aging dictators ruled Egypt and Libya, and despotism was the nearly unquestioned reality in most of the Middle East. The eurozone was seeing trouble at its edges, but wasn't heading toward collapse. News International had successfully covered up most of its rampant bad acts, and Rupert Murdoch was on the verge of even greater control over British media and politics. Anyone who might have predicted how utterly and rapidly those realities would change might have been branded a lunatic. Which is one reason why the annual journalistic ritual of making predictions about the year ahead is a fool's errand. With that in mind, let me offer instead some observations about the technology and media trends we've seen in past months, and how they might play out in 2012. In many cases, the trajectory is deeply worrisome. But I remain an eternal optimist in the face of ...","authors":"Dan Gillmor","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"The Guardian","framebuster":false,"id":"the_guardian","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.7","num_reviews":"1","title":"Here comes everybuddy","url":"http://harpers.org/archive/2012/01/0083740","date":"2011/12/15","id":8467305,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"The crucial factor is not working in a factory, or with your hands; not is it necessarily anything to do with being poor.  Rather, as Berman writes, it is the need \"to sell your labor in order to live\" -- \"to look at yourself in the mirror and think, 'Now what have I got that I can sell?' \"    One virtue of this definition of the working class is its inclusiveness, its flexibility.  By this reckoning, the working class is practically \"here comes everybody.\"","authors":"Andy Merrifield","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Harper's","framebuster":false,"id":"harpers_magazine","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"1.2","num_reviews":"0","title":"\"Hancock 38\" Defendants Found Guilty for Bold Army Base Protest Against U.S. Drone Attacks Abroad","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/2/hancock_38_defendants_found_guilty_for","date":"2011/12/02","id":8447780,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Thirty-one of 38 accused activists were found guilty on Thursday for their role in a protest against U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The activists were arrested on April 22 at the New York Air National Guard base at Hancock Field near Syracuse, New York, after trespassing to protest the MQ-9 Reaper drones, which the 174th Fighter Wing of the Guard has remotely flown over Afghanistan since late 2009","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"1","title":"Democracy Now! Correspondent Anjali Kamat on Reporting the Revolutions in Egypt and Libya","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/1/democracy_now_correspondent_anjali_kamat_on","date":"2011/12/01","id":8444718,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"Democracy Now! special correspondent Anjali Kamat has just returned from Cairo after nearly a year reporting on the revolutions in Egypt and Libya. Anjali was on the ground in Cairo covering the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak and the ensuing crackdowns on protesters opposed to military rule. Kamat also made two trips to Libya to cover the uprising and ultimate overthrow, with the aid of NATO forces, of the Gaddafi regime. \"One of the things that was really remarkable over the past year that I saw in both Egypt and Libya is the fearlessness of people,\" Kamat says. \"I was really taken aback by\u2014you know, we\u2019ve seen visually the scenes of crowds of people running into armed tanks, running into vehicles towards them that are opening fire, people just without any fear.\"","authors":"Anjali Kamat","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"1.6","num_reviews":"0","title":"Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/25/occupy_everywhere_michael_moore_naomi_klein","date":"2011/11/25","id":8435987,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"How does the Occupy Wall Street movement move from \"the outrage phase\" to the \"hope phase,\" and imagine a new economic model? In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we bring you excerpts from a recent event that examined this question and much more. \"Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power,\" a panel discussion hosted by The Nation magazine and The New School in New York City, features Oscar-winning filmmaker and author Michael Moore; Naomi Klein, best-selling author of the \"Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism\"; Rinku Sen of the Applied Research Center and publisher of ColorLines; Occupy Wall Street organizer Patrick Bruner; and veteran journalist William Greider, author of \"Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country.\" [includes rush transcript]","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.2","num_reviews":"1","title":"Egyptian Revolution Enters New Phase As Thousands Brave Violence to Protest Military Rule","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/22/egyptian_revolution_enters_new_phase_as","date":"2011/11/22","id":8431658,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"Activists in Egypt are holding their fourth day of massive demonstrations to demand an end to military rule and a transition to a civilian government. The protests continue amidst a massive crackdown and an offer to resign from Egypt\u2019s interim cabinet. Reports from Cairo\u2019s main morgue said at least 33 people have been killed and more than 1,500 wounded in the military government\u2019s crackdown. The turmoil comes as Egypt is scheduled to begin holding parliamentary elections on Monday. \"I can\u2019t see how a legitimate election can take place when you have such state-sponsored brutality happening in the heart of the capital city of the country,\u201d says Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who joins us for an update from Cairo. \"What many Egyptians have been seeing over these past 10 months has been that the revolution has been abused and stolen and deformed, and that the military council in Egypt has really not lived up to any of its promises in this transitional period, from human rights abuses to just their complete grip on power.\"","authors":"Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"2","title":"Occupy PressThink: Tim Pool","url":"http://pressthink.org/2011/11/occupy-pressthink-tim-pool/","date":"2011/11/21","id":8422899,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"\u201cBeing a livestream he acts as \u2018eyes and ears\u2019 for the viewers. Literally. People will tell him to move the camera somewhere and he\u2019ll do it. They\u2019ll ask for interviews with someone, and Tim will go over and do so\u2026 The viewers will ask him questions and he won\u2019t rest until he gets them their answers.\u201d\n\nRecently, Alexis Madrigal, the technology editor of The Atlantic and pretty much the smartest young journalist \u2019round these parts, re-described occupy Wall Street as an API, or Application Programming Interface.","authors":"Jay Rosen, Alexis Madrigal","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Press Think","framebuster":false,"id":"press_think","ownership":"ind","type":"blog","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.4","num_reviews":"2","title":"More on Police Departments' Collusion in Defense of 1%: Who's the Organization Coordinating Those Crackdown Calls?","url":"http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/736778/more_on_police_departments'_collusion_in_defense_of_1:_who's_the_organization_coordinating_those_crackdown_calls/","date":"2011/11/19","id":8421951,"story_type":"Investigative Report","quote":"a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs to advise them on policing matters and discuss response to the Occupy movement. The group has distributed a recently published guide on policing political events....","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"AlterNet","framebuster":false,"id":"alternet","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.2","num_reviews":"4","title":"What to Make of New Polling on Support for the Occupy Movement?","url":"http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/153116/what_to_make_of_new_polling_on_support_for_the_occupy_movement/","date":"2011/11/18","id":8418827,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"All over the country people are hearing that the Occupiers are animals who are masturbating in public and shitting in the streets. The local news is luridly portraying the protests as hotbeds of crime infested with lunatics and drug addicts.\n\n    That stuff isn't disseminated just for kicks. It's done to poison the minds of the public before they have a chance to identify with the protesters. \n\nThis is an important point.","authors":"Joshua Holland","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"AlterNet","framebuster":false,"id":"alternet","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}}]