As a result of my reading up on radical islam, ive also [as a brit] become interested in the U.S media. can...?

USA also has CBS and ABC these news stations like to form an opinion after they take a poll. Not everybody agrees with the poll so we never get a correct opinion by the news only their perspective. We are left to sum the reports up based on personal feeling for the topic. Most news is full of crime and politics the stations like to put in a good sumaritin story at the close