Before the terrorist attacks on September 11th, the Al-Jazeera station was almost unheard of in the United States, but now the station's name is recognized. When their name became popular in America and knew that more and more of us were watching, they started filming dead and captured American soldiers, again stirring up controversy. Generally in America it takes a tragedy for us to know a name or pay attention to a media story. Take the incident in Waco back in the early '90s; hardly anyone, outside of Texas, knew where it was located or who David Koresh was. I think as Americans, we are just programmed that way; to recognize the bad and overlook the good. Media coverage has a lot to do with that. How many "good", other than sports and features, related stories, are repotred on the news or in the paper...not many. We tune into the "bad" and remember it. For example give me a name of a firefighter that died in the September 11th attack trying to save the survivors...cant think of one can you, neither can I. Name the group, religion and nationality of terrorist. I can recite those by heart.