Yes, the US media has a very bad biased and non-consistent track record (same goes for many other types of news coverages, political, economic, etc - sometimes they seem to aim for self-fullfilling prohecies regarding stock trends and such). IMO other media are in general more balanced and objective. IGN is IMO overall pretty reliable though, relatively speaking.
If you're a FPS fan, check out Killzone 2, it may result into more balanced views for PS3/Sony/whatever haters as well.