Journalist Who Accused MSNBC Of Pro-Israel Bias: I've Been Canceled!

[Ichingcarpenter]

After expressing some candid on-air criticism of MSNBC, network contributor and Rula Jebreal is wondering if she's in the cable news channel's dog house.

Jebreal said in a tweet Monday evening that her "forthcoming TV appearances" had been canceled, and that there might be a "link" between that and her comments earlier in the day in which she said MSNBC's coverage had been biased toward Israel amid the nation's ongoing conflict with Hamas.



Jebreal also used the appearance to address the ordeal of Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who was mysteriously pulled off the network's coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict last week. Many journalists, including Jebreal, believed the decision was politically motivated.

"Listen, the Ayman Mohyeldin story, let's talk about this. We are home and we can discuss this. Ayman Mohyeldin is covering the Palestinian side and we get upset," Jebreal said. "It's too pro-Palestinian. We don't like it. We push him back and thanks for social media that brought him in."

After a considerable backlash, NBC returned Mohyeldin to Gaza this weekend to cover the story.

In her tweet, Jebreal asked if the Daily Beast's Eli Lake had the same experience. During their appearance earlier on Farrow's program, Lake said he was "baffled" by Jebreal's contention that Israel received disproportionately positive press.


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[Larkspur]

1. She spoke Truth to Power

but when it comes to Israel, that is not allowed.

I like Rula. I hope she returns to TV soon.

[Sognefjord]

2. That is unfortunately true.

I wish her a speedy return also.

[KittyWampus]

38. That is an overused phrase (truth to power) but in this case it's spot on.

[Cha]

3. Kind of predictble(shades of Phil Donahue).. but, we're always hoping US corporatemedia wouldn't

be so damn Predictable! thanks Iching

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[billhicks76]

4. MSNBC No Longer Liberal Ally

There are a corporate puppet. I'm boycotting and sticking to Al Jazeera America and the Internet. She was a good source of opinion.

[Uncle Joe]

7. They're still a "relative" liberal ally but they're first and foremost the corporate media.

They can't help it, this is the nature of the beast.

[billhicks76]

9. Not Good Enough

They have crossed the line here.

[Uncle Joe]

12. I never said it was good enough by any measure. The corporate media is the corporate media and

they don't represent the best interests of the American People, only their corporate masters.

It's the beast.

[Dustlawyer]

54. If we can achieve Publicly Funded Federal, State, and Local Elections, we can have our newly

returned Representatives bust up the Wall Street Banks and the BIG MEDIA CONGLOMERATES!!! The media have been complicit in the shift to the Right, in fact, the corptacracy could not have been accomplished without their lying propaganda!

A Florida Court of Appeals a few years ago overturned a $425,000 judgement against Fox, saying it ok for them to lie because it is no longer news, but "Entertainment!" WTF!

[Uncle Joe]

55. I imagine Goebbels was entertaining to the Germans.

So much for entertainment.

[AngryOldDem]

22. They crossed the line a long, long time ago...

...when corporate, for-profit interests began scarfing up media outlets as a way to control the message that gets out here. Media in this country are not independent anymore, and if we think they are, we're not being honest. They are owned, much like every other societal institution, by something or somebody, and they are no longer truly working for the common good.

You have to serve first and foremost whoever signs your checks and pays your light bills. And unfortunately that ain't us.

[Sherman A1]

16. I do not believe they ever were

a liberal ally. Fox had the other market share conned, CNN was supposedly in the middle and MSNBC was simply looking for an available niche. It's about money, not ideology.

[RKP5637]

37. To me, it's an indication of the Comcast infiltration of MSNBC bending it to be a close corporate

puppet. The freedom for descent from the Comcast party line will be squashed.

[billhicks76]

57. List Of DUers

Even here there is a list of DUers who always appear to try to convince us everything is fine from NSA to new war provocations. They go extreme and post pics of aliens anytime you suggest things aren't as the status quo seems. I like all your comments but soooooo sick of these puppeted parrots on other threads. Keep up the good fight. We don't get paid for this like some disrupters do.

[RobertEarl]

6. Ummm, yeah.

Making Israel look bad is out of bounds for m$m employees. You'll learn, everyone in the new room has. Or they wouldn't be there!

[sabrina 1]

10. Israel, Netanyahu and members of their Parliament that refer to Palestinian

children as 'little snakes' calling for their deaths along with their mothers so they 'cannot bear any more little snakes' make Israel look bad.

What our Corporate Media does is to try to cover for Israel. But the internet has made that job far more difficult than it used to be. So they are under fire, all over the internet they are being trashed for their bias.

Imagine if we didn't have the Internet, they would have total control of the 'message'. Back in the good old days, they didn't have to hear from the people, they were essentially talking to no one. But now, people can go to their twitter accounts and tell them what they think.

Can't stand Farrow btw, if this supposed to be a Liberal show, we are in trouble.

[RobertEarl]

14. The internet is a problem for bibi

I am quite impressed how properly educated most people are about Israel these days. Must be the internet?

Internet is out of control. Most of the old timers in the newsroom are not even close to knowing as much as some dU peeps, and we sure are bringing up the young ones the right way. I think.

I don't watch the tv, but used to, and known a few in the bizz. Its future is in trouble, especially if they don't get out from under the thumb of corp and foreign powers.

And hey, if not for the internet i'd never the pleasure of hearing from sabrina 1, so cheers!

[sabrina 1]

18. True, I'm sure he wishes he could shut it down right now. It's true that people are

far more educated now about this situation and Israel is losing the information war. They are not making sense to rational people. All their previous talking points are being rejected. They keep repeating them, 'human shields' eg, but it isn't working. I saw one of their military commanders I think it was on RT yesterday. She insisted that they were being very careful not to kill children. She repeated the 'human shield' talking point, and she looked like she actually believed it.

As Jon Stewart said, 'wtf are they supposed to go'? When people were dependent on TV, they didn't know the geography there so they got away with it for a while. NOW, no one believes them. People are seeing those tragic images of, now I believe nearly 100 dead children and it is heart breaking.

I do think it is the internet.

Lol, what a nice thing to say, and I would not have the pleasure of speaking to RobertEarl either, I wouldn't even know he existed!

[kelliekat44]

26. ++1,000 nt

[RKP5637]

39. Why there is, of course, this ongoing effort to pull back and control the internet so people

do not have the freedom to freely talk on the Internet without controls. None like it when propaganda messages, whatever that message might be, is questioned by masses of people, especially internationally.

[Jackpine Radical]

51. Custer put it somewhat differently when defending

the massacre of Native American children:

"Nits make lice."

[lovemydog]

8. They should give her a show.

I bet it would be successful. She's knowledgeable and provides good detail. I thought that Farrow guy was horrendous - repeatedly interrupting her and denying the obvious. They usually give articulate Palestinian voices 15 seconds and talk over them. Then they give articulate Israeli voices a lot longer to expound their views. It's time for positive change. It's 2014. Peace is in everyone's interest. Or, it should be.

[sabrina 1]

11. He is awful, isn't he? I watched it once and wondered if he got that job because of his

mother.

[lovemydog]

13. I hate to say it, because I like Mia Farrow,

but he seems like an obnoxious preppy twit. Oh, I guess I didn't hate saying it. Actually I kind of enjoyed it. We need more people of color, more women, more people from different countries, on television. I prefer watching stuff online, like BBC News. It's less inflammatory, and they let the guests talk without constantly interrupting. I noticed a similar thing watching the World Cup. The British announcers were witty and didn't babble incessantly like most of the American announcers.

[sabrina 1]

15. You said what I wanted to say about how he struck me, and it's okay imo, to

say what you think. I agree regarding needing more diversity on TV. Many of them seem to be related to one powerful and/or rich family or another. There are so many great young journalists but they can't get jobs on the MSM, too truthful.

I hate the interrupting, and agree, that doesn't happen so much in other countries. I just turn it off when they start talking over people.

[kelliekat44]

28. May time to send young son a few e-mails. I am sure no one has attacked him like we can. nt

[RKP5637]

40. Agree, there is such a stark difference between traditional American TV and the internet, and other

sources, such as BBC news. So often American TV is predictable propagandistic canned chatter. True of other sources too, sometimes, but often the former comes to mind when watching, for example, American TV news. It all tends to follow the same script, just the content changes.

[Chathamization]

45. And more diversity of personality

Even the people on MSNBC seem like they’d all have fun and get along at the same political horse-racing convention. I’d like to see more people that don’t care about the politico cocktail crowd.

[AngryOldDem]

23. He is just freaking unwatchable.

He reminds me of some kid who's just gone down to his local cable access station and is doing his own show. Tell me again his credentials (other than the obvious connections) to host a program such as this? And why did MSNBC give him this gig?

MSNBC is really puzzling at times.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

35. same MO as

Luke Russert, famous parent or parents, without the gravitas or charisma

[Bluenorthwest]

44. Luke's Mom is Ronan's Godmother.

nt

[RKP5637]

42. To me, MSBNC wears multiple disguises. From a profit angle, they try to promote themselves

as a somewhat moderate/lefty source, but underneath all of that is $$$$$. MSNBC is only interested in $$$$$, so, they work a niche market of sorts, but the underlying current is Comcast.

[AngryOldDem]

52. Yep -- money drives everything.

And that's why true freedom of the press is dead in this country. Like everything else, it's been bought and sold, and damn if they don't have to toe that old company line.

[NealK]

17. K&R

[Skidmore]

19. I'm so sorry to hear that.

She is a bright young woman who was expressing an opnion on a program set up to discuss opinions.

[DeSwiss]

20. Back of the brick wall time.....

[center][/center]

- K&R



[center]''Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.'' ~A. J. Liebling[/center]

[woo me with science]

41. +1000000

That's exactly what's happening.

You can't get away from the propaganda...even on DU.

[RKP5637]

43. Exactly!!! An illusion to drive the money machine. People are so propagandized many/most

don't have a clue what is going on. Most function as robots in a robotized society feeding on an illusion of a democracy and freedom, but the bottom line is $$$$$.

[questionseverything]

49. probably closer than many think

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014852205

sound cannons being used on peaceful protesters

[Aerows]

21. Better to go down in flames

for telling the truth than for telling a lie, and she was telling the truth.

[jakeXT]

24. We're insiders. We're the establishment.

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[KoKo]

46. That's an excellent interview..

might be time to repost it in V&MM here on DU since censorship by media is coming up again given the situations in Gaza and Ukraine...

Things move so fast these days people forget the good work that's been done exposing our corporate media.

Thanks for the refresh...posting it in this thread.

[kelliekat44]

25. Point made!! nt

[WinkyDink]

27. Wouldn't openly accusing ANY network of ANY bias tend to jeopardize one's further appearances?

[kelliekat44]

29. Only if the accusation were true. nt

[WinkyDink]

32. I don't think so. You criticize the boss-- the boss doesn't say, "Ok, ya got me. You're safe."

[La Lioness Priyanka]

48. if the boss's work is in media and news dissemination

they serve a duty to the public as well.

its not like she was dissenting with her boss who makes guitars. when the media is biased it betrays us all and she, as a journalist, has a duty to call out that bias.

[stillwaiting]

30. If the network did not tolerate dissenting opinions and viewpoints, then yes. nt

[WinkyDink]

31. Might depend on her hired role.

[wheniwasincongress]

33. Ugh

Hoped she will be booked on Bill Maher. I think they keep a slot or two empty

[mylye2222]

34. Nothing to be astonished to it.

AIPAC owns US "freedom of speech" on anything Israel.

[Jenoch]

36. I do not wish for pro-Hamas or Pro-Israel comments

of an kind in the newscasts that I watch.

[cascadiance]

47. So much for the "liberal media" myth! Wingnut lurkers? Do you STILL believe that CRAP!?1

Do you really think that liberals love Netanyahu and hate Palestinians? That's the only way that the facts fit within your propagandized world if indeed it has any truth!

[progressoid]

50. he was "baffled" by Jebreal's contention that Israel received disproportionately positive press.

OFFS.

[d_b]

53. How has Rachel's coverage been on this?

[nolabear]

56. She was on Chris Hayes show today.

They had an all too brief, "spirited" discussion, and she held her ground beautifully. I hope they give her more time.