Some interesting points. Still, I think the America-bashers wouldn't cast accusations of a CNN anti-American bias as accusations of a CNN pro-American bias. On the other hand, I'm in Queens, New York, so maybe I overestimate the intellectual honesty of America-bashers in Europe. Still, I think they'd instead express astonishment that CNN gets accused of being insufficiently pro-American, they'd take it as a sign of the "extremism" of the Americans who make those accusations. (How excessively relative these things seem, until one considers "centers of gravity" like freedom &ecurity.) It's also true that CNN's behavior, as you point out, has not been without merit, though the merit came late.
Though I use high-speed cable access to the 'Net, I don't bother getting cable TV. So I watched the broadcast channels, which often (though certainly not 24/7) broadcast the Fox, CBS, NBC, &BC feed. The famous day (late at night here in NYC) of Andrew Gilligan's mistaken denial that there was any evidence that the Americans had reached Baghdad's center or even entered the city, I was watching BBC &kyNews over the Internet. I ended up watching SkyNews for its periodic feeds from FoxNews, as I noticed that the BBC seemed unable to find the Americans whom I saw on Fox via SkyNews. (An account of BBC's reporting is in "Bizarro Broadcasting Company" by Denis Boyles, Duck Season, April 7, 2003 &ow at http://www.NationalReview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment072903.asp.