Staff writer

KOBE -- The media is out of control and it's time for ordinary citizens in both America and Japan to do what they can to stop biased, unethical and outright false reporting.

That is the opinion of Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused by police and the international press of setting off a bomb in Atlanta's Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Games. Jewell made the statement at a symposium on the media and news reporting last Saturday that drew nearly 150 people.