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News report from 1981 about the Internet

'Bigger than Watergate': US 'regular' meetings with Al-Qaeda's leader; documented White House 'false flag terrorism' moving people 'like sheep'; the father of Twin Towers victim tell us why he backs this month's 9/11 campaign on Times Square and around the world; & the protests calendar for September.

Good conspiracy news story Matty. Might be interesting to look at the article alongside others that put it into its wider media context, like: This BBC article about the coverage of 9/11 in different countries. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19562414

page about why people join gangs.

Great list of stereotypes - can you think of media texts to link to them all?

The finding comes ahead of the latest Government employment figures, which will be published this morning and are expected to show that youth unemployment is still at around one million. Four-fifths of 14- to 17-year-olds feel their age group is unfairly represented in the media, according to polling of more than 1,000 young people by the think tank Demos.

Great statistics.

Good news, for those of you who had lost hope in modern society. According to a report by the thinktank Demos today's teenagers - or youth, as certain newspapers prefer to dub them - far from being antisocial hoody-clad riot-mongers, are actually highly concerned with social issues, keen to volunteer, and take fewer drugs and drink less alcohol than previous generations.

Brilliant alternative to the stereotype.

Covering major issues in adolescent sexuality in the United States from colonial times to the present, this work provides an account of how adults, from policymakers to police and parents, have attempted to intervene in the sexual lives of adolescents, and how adolescent sexuality has been and continues to be a subject of social concern and control.This balanced, nuanced, and data-grounded view of the past and present of adolescent sexuality provides readers with a store of valuable and reliable information.

Brilliant resource!

A plan by the New York Police Department to use Twitter to boost its image seems to have backfired. Users were asked to tweet a photo of themselves with officers and add the hashtag #myNYPD as part of a social media campaign.

Scores of celebrities from Justin Bieber to Tom Cruise have taken part the Ice Bucket Challenge, but when John Humphrys was nominated by his daughter, he gave it the cold-shoulder. The BBC Radio 4 Today presenter has said he'll happily give money to charity, but is wary of fads.