"Top Ten Ways Bradley Manning Changed the World" Reaction

Right away in the leading paragraph of the story done on Bradley Manning, the author makes it clear that the American government has a form of corruption that is not helping out the work of Manning. Being "found guilty of 20 counts, including espionage (despite the lack of evidence for intent to spy and the lack of evidence that his leaking ever did any real harm,)" is a clear violation of the court system, which makes the government seem corrupt against those that are trying to bring the truth to society.

There is something that I questioned myself while reading this article: "Why have I never heard of this man or any of the work he has done?" That is when I realized how important media framing is and the audience that is receiving this information. A lot of the stories that Manning posted from the article would not be considered appropriate to run with on any traditional news networks because of the fear of the government.

If fear can be eliminated from holding mainstream media networks from running with certain stories, that would better serve the public, because everyone deserves to know the entire truth. Unfortunately, independent media sources do not always bring in large audiences, so the message is not usually spread out very far, but change is always a possibility.