And normal folks both in Europe, America and elsewhere are absolutely unhappy with the stupid generalisations so usual for press.
Let's analyse just the above mentioned sentence in italics.
It presumes that Europe and America are some sort of homogeneous chunks, and that split between them is a generaly recognised fact. In this way emphasis fells on the White House unhappiness with the coverage of an undeniable fact.
All three premises are false.
First of all, there are big groups of people both in America and in Europe who, in president'a words, have a heck of a lot more that unites them than divides them. So neither splits are fact, nor the two continents are homogeneous.
And the White House is unhappy - not with the alleged splits, but with the press's bias.
As to the "marginal" character of the protests (Chirac's words), he is too polite a Frenchie. Those 24,800 demonstrators out of 350 million Europeans - what a representative figure! - are just outsiders.
Oops, now I am too polite... they're bums, fuggy reds, loony radical campus lowlife.