The dominant attitude of the mainstream media seems to be that this response is irrational.
Though there are historic parallels between the actions of Manning today and those of Ellsberg in 1971, a major difference is the attitude of the mainstream U.S. news media, which then fought to publish Ellsberg's secret history but now is behaving more like what former CIA analyst Ray McGovern calls the "fawning corporate media" or FCM.
After looking at the existing laws and policies, the level of support from the executives and the resources appropriated for these policies, and the institutional capacity of implementing agencies, the framework looks at the attitudes of the mainstream society towards voters with disabilities.
What changed the attitude of The Times and other mainstream publications was the experience of the Vietnam War.
It's about having a job, a strong family, a decent education and beneath it all, an attitude that shares in the values of mainstream society.
Homophobia has long been a part of mainstream comedy, but attitudes have changed radically since 1983, when Eddie Murphy opened the concert film "Delirious" with a long gay-panic riff that included a joke about worrying about getting AIDS from a woman who kissed a gay man.
"When the 'rise' of a large dictatorial state that commands rapidly increasing economic strength meets with no effective deterrence from outside, but only an attitude of appeasement from the international mainstream, the results will not only be another catastrophe for the Chinese people, but likely also a disaster for the spread of liberal democracy in the world".
At the same time, contrary to the mainstream positive attitude of firms towards immigration, local residents in some municipalities have been protesting actively against the uninterrupted arrivals of immigrants.
Comment columns of mainstream news sites reveal prevailing attitudes that such language is just part of the game.
"But over the past four or five years we've seen loads of mainstream brands running the same ads in Attitude as they run in hetero mags.
