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So in other words, she lied.

Wow I guess you’d only see that if you don’t have a hundred tabs open at all times.

Now that I see that TPM has an interest in Apple, iCloud, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yahoo (and a general interest in News and Popular), let the blackmailing commence!

Huh? What am I missing. Is it magic?

It’s just a stupid joke about being able to judge and/or blackmail someone based on seeing the kinds of pages they bookmark, but that TPM only has standard issue things bookmarked, but I don’t think it worked.

Makes her the archetypical Hamas (or RNC— take your pick) spokesperson.

I wouldn’t go that far not by a long shot.

This is why we need to see an MSNBC contract to learn how they affect a contributor’s ability to speak freely. For example, confidentiality for all future considerations, no-badmouthing stipulations, no behind the scenes intrigue, etc.

We are at a point in US media consolidation where it’s important to know how corporate bosses interfere with news gathering and balance. But we can’t, because “journalists” who sign with big TV networks have to agree to curtail their right to free speech.

You might say it was their choice, because they are paid, but often it’s necessary just to get access to a mass audience. And that goes against the public interest.

Well under the circumstances because she is Palestinian and has some real and understandable feelings about the media and how it is reporting this issue and as she said on the Chris Hayes show yesterday, she has been concerned about the way media is covering issues in general. So I cut her some slack for having to report as a journalist on an issue that must affect her greatly on a personal level.

Those tabs comments are usually put in by website designers for search engines and it’s not something everyone notices. So I can see why she doesn’t realize that her website is being identified that way. Still I agree with her that it is not the way she should be identified as a journalist. She is a foreign policy journalist and she deserves to referred to as such.

I just hope that once she is able to step back and reflect she will keep reporting despite what she dislikes in the coverage in order to be an example of how she feels the media should be engaging on issues.

Rula:

in other words she’s a liar and anything coming out of her mouth can rightfully be assumed to be a lie

as soon as Fox releases theirs! Oh wow - we know that will never happen!

Well, it couldn’t be as simple as if Hamas stops lobbing rockets they wouldn’t get there ass kicked for doing so in the first place. Check back in 20 years. Different generation, same war with neat new military toys to play with along with new names for those willing to sacrifice the innocent for little gain over and over again.

Even leaving her website aside, she is a journalist who was born in Haifa and grew up in East Jerusalem, so it would seem perfectly fine to call her a Palestinian journalist, especially in the context of that discussion. If they had someone from Haaretz, I’m pretty sure they would identify them as “Israeli journalist” rather than “foreign policy analyst”.

The issue is that she was a house reporter for MSNBC, while identifying her as “Palestinian Journalist” makes it sound like she was a local freelancer. As MSNBC admitted, it was a bit of a screw-up.

First off, this lady needs a publicist or PR help of some kind. She is digging a hole.

Second, she makes decent points but she is missing the issue at hand. Here’s just a few of the blunders that I see. She didn’t just report, she opinionated and made accusations against her employer and also singled out a very popular reporter that was(?) her work associate. What does an objective reporter call that? Career threatening, dumb, loss of perspective, loss of temper, her own bias?

And last, she changed her story so her credibility is shot. And she is doing all of this on live TV.

She has muddled her message.

Exactly. But she is always so overwrought it’s hard to tell what she’s saying. I don’t know why msnbc hired her in the first place.

Being exposed as a manipulator doesn’t help your cause, Ms. Jebreal.

I think you owe us an explanation as to what your implication of bias was all about when it turns out it was your own decision. What you’ve accomplished is that you’ve taken all potentially legitimate questions of bias and relegated them to the status of bullshit tsunami.

In the statement, MSNBC said that her pre-scheduled daytime appearances for Tuesday were bumped “to accommodate the re-airing of Chris Hayes’ exclusive interview with Tariq Abu Khdeir, a 15 year old Palestinian American beaten by Israeli forces.”

Based on a review of MSNBC’s daytime programming for Tuesday, it appears that Hayes’ interview with the 15-year-old was re-shown only once during a 37-second segment on the show hosted by Jose Diaz-Balart.

Sounds like it’s MSNBC who’s lying.