Both Russian and Chinese media are scooping them big time; if you're multilingual, you can get a very different picture of the war than if you are only watching CNN. EG- scooped on the POW story by almost 24 hours, scooped on the Naphet battle by almost 24 hours (hey, the Globe and Mail scooped them on that one even), scooped on the supply line problems by almost 24 hours, scooped the Apache helicopter crash by about twelve hours... you'd think that NA media was being carefully controlled to present a positive image of the war.
I think they're concerned that al-Jazeera english language website would force CNN to start trying to get news instead of relaying press releases.