I'm not sure it would pass the FCC to print some of the things I have seen printed overseas about Obama. Some in the Black Continents think he is an apostate Muslim and may be a homosexual. Some in the Northern Continents and Asia routinely compare Obama to a chimpanzee. And Kerry has been portrayed in the M.E. as a painted clown with a big red nose.
But Americans will never hear of or see any of this without the alternative media. Because the "official" American press outlets simply will not print things that conflict with their very narrow agenda, even if it is plastered all over the rest of the world. And people wonder why Americans are known as being extremely naive. It is because they are not told the truth by people who represent themselves as the truth.
American media only prints the truth as they see it, or as they wish it to be, not as it really is. Americans in general have no idea what is really happening in the rest of the world because of this institutionalized filtering process.