SINGAPORE (IDN) - As we reached the end of 2011, the western global news media were praising the young people who mounted the so-called Arab Spring for putting all dictators around the world on notice. But looking back on the year and seeing how these same news organizations manipulated news feeds to cheerlead some youth uprisings such as in Libya and Syria, while quickly forgetting others such as in Bahrain and ramblings in Saudi Arabia, one wonders whether 2011 had been the year of manipulated revolutions.