--- title: Jordan Journalists Fight on Live TV description: Jordan journalists fight on live TV canonical: https://time.com/92344/watch-jordan-journalists-get-into-a-huge-brawl-and-flip-tables-on-live-tv/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-08T15:02:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:40.870Z og:title: Watch Jordan Journalists Get into a Huge Brawl and Flip a Table on Live TV og:description: Jordan journalists fight on live TV og:url: https://time.com/92344/watch-jordan-journalists-get-into-a-huge-brawl-and-flip-tables-on-live-tv/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jordan Journalists Get into a Huge Brawl and Flip a Table on Live TV twitter:description: Jordan journalists fight on live TV twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Jordan Journalists Get into a Huge Brawl and Flip a Table on Live TV  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 8, 2014 3:02 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 8, 2014 3:02 PM UTC  AP Photo/Seven Stars Television via AP video Two journalists in Jordan got into a heated discussion of the ongoing civil war in Syria Tuesday, flipping over and tearing apart the table in the studio. The [Associated Press reports](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/journalists-jordan-fight-live-tv-talk-show) that it all started when Mohammad al-Jayousi “accused” Shaker al-Johari “of supporting the Syrian rebels” and al-Johari “accused” al-Jayousi “of taking money for supporting Assad.” Here is how the brawl played out on the satellite TV talk show _Seven Stars_, per video uploaded to YouTube by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI): (video h/t [JPost.com](http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/WATCH-Jordanian-commentators-destroy-studio-during-argument-on-Syrian-civil-war-351651)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/92344/watch-jordan-journalists-get-into-a-huge-brawl-and-flip-tables-on-live-tv/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/92344/watch-jordan-journalists-get-into-a-huge-brawl-and-flip-tables-on-live-tv/"},"headline":"Watch Jordan Journalists Get into a Huge Brawl and Flip a Table on Live TV","datePublished":"2014-05-08T15:02:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:40.870Z","description":"They had a disagreement about the civil war in Syria.","url":"https://time.com/92344/watch-jordan-journalists-get-into-a-huge-brawl-and-flip-tables-on-live-tv/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/92344/watch-jordan-journalists-get-into-a-huge-brawl-and-flip-tables-on-live-tv/","name":"Watch Jordan Journalists Get into a Huge Brawl and Flip a Table on Live TV"}}]}] ```