George,

The fact that Palestinian women had to give a speech at UVA in order to better inform Americans of the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just another reminder of how unreliable the American news media has become.

Reliability and fairness seems to be a chronic problem in American news media services. Reporting of the Israeli-Pelestinian conflict is much more balanced and fair at European news agencies, such as France 2 or the BBC. While no news agency is 100% sans bias, most American news agencies (except National Public Radio, which, in my opinion, is one of the few quality national broadcast news sources in the States) are ridiculously biased. I remember watching CNN with some of my British friends at the start of the Iraq War. They called CNN's style of reporting on the war "a stinking load of jingoistic rubbish".

I'd like to see a bit more professionalism and a bit less personal opinion and bias in American broadcast news reporting.

- Joey Cheek (electronic mail, March 25, 2004)