Also, Western media today tends to be very heavily slanted towards certain ideological perspectives. Now, there's no such thing as truly objective; everyone has a point of view, and in the case of journalists it influences both what stories they search out and how they tell them. Certainly, there are many journalists whose perspectives don't fit the normal politics/ideology for the media, but overall there's a definite slant. (It's why it's so important to get multiple points of view--no matter how fair and balanced and objective you try to be, no one can truly be objective.) Someone with a different perspective who tried to go against the grain (as JMS probably found himself) might not have had a very good experience, depending on where and when he was working in the field.