Overall we think the visit of President Obama has been a success. He did not come like Rambo to China but managed to achieve the major goals: set a long-term agenda for improved relations between the USA and China. True, no major agreements were signed, he did not lambast China for all its perceived ills. Obviously many of the media in the USA did not see it that way but that is not a surprise. They have mostly no credibility anyway except if one bothers to read papers like the IHT (or the SCMP in Hong Kong).
The U.S. ambassador in Beijing, Jon Huntsman, was highly critical of the media in his country.

Not that the Chinese media come out clean either.
Censorship was at its best and most Chinese were served spoon wise by the propaganda machine allowed – leaving out important issues.
The only diplomatic hiccup by president Obama was his bowing to the Japanese emperor. Who the hell briefed him? Even newcomers know the angle of bowing has to be “the right one” (according to the difference in position/level) and either one bows or shakes hand. Not both. The angle was way over the top. Seems the president was better briefed about China than about Japan.