And today, Voila... nangyari na nga, although yung mga Arabic media channels ang pinaginitan nila instead of the leftwing Mainstream Media (hindi kaya nagbabasa ang mga taga CENTCOM sa blog ko? :p)
The US-led coalition and its Iraqi allies accused the Arab world's two biggest television news stations of fanning anti-US sentiment and sectarian violence in Iraq (news - web sites) with their reporting.
"Anti-US sentiment has been heightened by Al-Jazeera and other anti-coalition media reporting" on the closure of a Shiite radical newspaper and the siege of the insurgent bastion of Fallujah, the coalition's deputy director of operations, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, told a news conference.
"We have reason to believe that several news organizations do not engage in truthful reporting," coalition civilian spokesman Dan Senor said.
"In fact it is no reporting."
Qatar-based Al-Jazeera and its Dubai-based rival Al-Arabiya, have been providing graphic images of the devastation and casualties in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah during fierce fighting between US forces and insurgents last week.
Al-Jazeera has also been giving significant prominence and airtime to supporters of Shiite radical leader Moqtada Sadr, who is wanted in connection with the murder of a rival cleric last year.
Even Iraq's National Security Advisor, Muaffaq al-Rubaie, seconded what Kimmitt and Senor said:
Iraq's National Security Advisor Muaffaq al-Rubaie, a Shiite, lashed out at what he called "false reports" by both channels Sunday that he resigned from the council in protest against fighting between US troops and Sadr's supporters that has left many civilians dead in Baghdad and the south.
"I am so upset and so angry about what has been reported on Arab media and television about my resignation," Rubaie told a press conference in Baghdad.
He said he left his position in the council which is legislative in nature to take an executive post as national security advisor as part of the transfer of power by the US-led coalition to a caretaker government on June 30.
"I warn the Arabic media: Iraq's patience has reached its limit and they will regret what they are doing," said a visibly angry Rubaie.
He accused both channels of inciting violence between the country's ethnic groups with their reporting.
"This media is not happy with the end of the sectarianism in Iraq with the fall of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), so they lie, lie and lie," said Rubaie.
Medyo disappointed lang ako sa mga iilang Japanese reporters, ang bobo naman nila.
But in a sign of Al-Jazeera's popularity, Japanese reporters slammed their diplomats in Jordan Monday, saying that they were left with reports by Al-Jazeera and other Arab media as the sole source of news about three Japanese hostages held by insurgents in Iraq.
"We end up getting our only news from Al-Jazeera," said Yoichi Koizumi, a reporter with Fuji Television News Network.
Hindi nyo ba naisip kung bakit puro sa Al Jazeera lang napupunta ang mga "exclusive" footage ng mga Japanese hostages?
Hindi nyo ba napapansin yung close collaboration between Al-Jazeera and the jihadist/terrorists?
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