The most fascinating part of the survey-poll was the section of the polls where commentaries and remarks were provided by the surveyors about their favorite American media personalities. We shall include in our article some of those remarks and commentaries, for they shed a new light on how foreigners from around the globe view, understand and assess American broadcasting and journalism. Equally important and fascinating are their very personal opinions about the personality, the character and even the looks (physical appearances) of those  media reporters, anchors, correspondents and show hosts they saw on the American tube or heard on the  radio.

Here are (in no particular order) the names of the most respected, trusted and admired American Media, Journalism and Broadcasting personalities as selected by 456,500 persons in 65 countries.

America's 50 Very Best: 1-Pat Buchanan, 2- Bill Press, 3-Alan Colmes, 4-Sean Hannity, 5-Bill O’Reilly, 6-Greta van Susteren, 7-Larry King, 8-Neil Cavuto, 9-Monica Crowley, 10-Nancy Grace, 11-Catherine Crier, 12-Charlie Rose, 13-Peter Jennings, 14-Helen Thomas, 15-Barbara Walters, 16-Jay Leno, 17-David Letterman, 18-Bill Mahr, 19-Diane Sawyer, 20-Paula Zhan, 21-Tom Brokaw, 22-Judge Andrew Napolitano, 23-Geraldo Rivera, 24- Christiane Ananpour, 25-Eve Ziebart, 26-Bill Kurtis, 27-Arthur Kent, 28-Judy Woodruff, 29-Walter Cronkite,  30-Dan Rather, 31-John King. 32-Jim Pinkerton, 33-Neal Gabler, 34-Cal Thomas, 35-Wolf Blitzer, 35A-Chris Matthews,  36-Carl Cameron, 37-Mort Kondrache, 38- Marianne Partland, 39-Aaron Brown, 40-Chris Wallace, 41-Shepard Smith, 42-Oprah Wimfrey, 43-Ted Koppel, 44-Brit Hume, 45-Shepard Smith, 46-Bill Schneider, 47-Lou Dobbs 48-Jeff Greenfield, 49-Dick Clark, 50-Ryan Seacrest

How the world community and our international readers describe the personality, talent and qualities of the selected media personalities. For reason of space, we are unable to print all commentaries in their entirety. We have selected the most a propos and entertaining/revealing ones. Unfortunately, a great number of correspondence and emails were written in languages we totally ignore, such as Chinese and Urdu. Thus, we will not able to print them in our magazine. We beg our readers who wrote these letters to understand the linguistic inconvenience and the reasons for not including their emails in this article.

PLAGIARISM IN AMERICAN MEDIA

Overwhelmingly, the responses of our readers and international responders were favorable and positive. Except 450 letters contained very derogative statements against women in the American media. Statements such as :” …American news women are arrogant and silly. They love to be seen on television and be listened to as if they were the center of the news…”, “…we do not trust American media women because they are easy pick-up…” or statements like these: “…funny and ridiculous to see dumb blond women on American television reporting on Palestinians and their struggles when they have never been to Palestine or struggled themselves…” and “…what they like most is sex and money then, money and sex and finally everything about themselves…”. It is ironic and “tragically coincidental”, those negative statements were received at the very time the nude photos (see below) of once upon a time a respected anchor woman in the United States appeared all over the country.  However,  glowing statements and reviews were sent to us testifying to the integrity and excellence of outstanding media/news ladies like Helen Thomas, Dr. Monica Crowley, Barbara Walters, Greta van Susteren and Diane Sawyer. Approximately 3,500 persons in responding to our survey/poll took the liberty and seize the opportunity to hammer on members of the American media/press corp. who have been accused of plagiarism. Some of our readers went even further and emailed us press clippings (about reporters who fabricated stories and committed plagiarism) from the Los Angeles Time, National Enquirer, The Washington Post, USA Today and the New York Times. One of the clippings (assumingly from The Washington Post) included this:“The New York Times, in an extraordinary admission of journalistic fraud in at least 36 articles, called the repeated deceptions of reporter Jayson Blair "a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper." Describing Blair as "a troubled young man veering toward professional self-destruction," the paper today recounted how the reporter faked stories from Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio and Texas without ever leaving New York, using a cell phone and laptop computer to disguise his whereabouts and deceive his bosses. Many news organizations have suffered major embarrassments over the last two decades. The Post returned a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 over reporter Janet Cooke's invention of an 8-year-old heroin addict. The Wall Street Journal's R. Foster Winans was convicted of selling advance information from his column. NBC staged a fiery truck crash on "Dateline." The New Republic published 27 fabricated articles by Stephen Glass, and the Boston Globe several bogus columns by Patricia Smith.”

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