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Title: ‘I Need Some Muscle’: Missouri Activists Block Journalists (Concerned Student 1950)
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The New York Times
URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/u ... ists-press-freedom.html?ref=us
Published: Nov 10, 2015
Author: AUSTIN HUGUELET and DANIEL VICTOR
Post Date: 2015-11-10 10:35:15 by Hondo68
Keywords: None
Views: 9678
Comments: 36
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A video that showed University of Missouri protesters restricting a student photographer’s access to a public area of campus on Monday ignited discussions about press freedom. Tim Tai, a student photographer on freelance assignment for ESPN, was trying to take photos of a small tent city that protesters had created on a campus quad. Concerned Student 1950, an activist group that formed to push for increased awareness and action around racial issues on campus, did not want reporters near the encampment. Protesters blocked Mr. Tai’s view and argued with him, eventually pushing him away. At one point, they chanted, “Hey hey, ho ho, reporters have got to go.” “I am documenting this for a national news organization,” Mr. Tai told the protesters, adding that “the First Amendment protects your right to be here and mine.” The protesters accused him of acting unethically and disregarding their requests for privacy. “What is so hard about respecting our wishes?” one protester asked. “Because I have a job to do,” Mr. Tai answered. That elicited a retort: “We don’t care about your job.” Video by Mark Schierbecker As the video nears its end, the person taking the video, Mark Schierbecker, emerged from the scrum and approached a woman, later identified as an assistant professor of mass media, Melissa Click, close to the tents. When he revealed that he was a journalist, Ms. Click appeared to grab at his camera. She then yelled, “Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here.” At another point in the video, Mr. Tai was also challenged by a university employee. Janna Basler, the director of Greek life and leadership on campus, approached Mr. Tai and, spreading her arms out, demanded that he “back off.” As he tried to defend his right to be there, Ms. Basler explained, “You are infringing on what they need right now, which is to be alone.” Ms. Basler and Ms. Click could not be reached for comment. Months of protests over the University of Missouri administration’s response to racial tensions and other issues led the president of the university system, Timothy M. Wolfe, and the chancellor of the flagship campus in Columbia, R. Bowen Loftin, to step down on Monday. Demonstrators gathered at the heart of the campus broke into cheers with the news. Mr. Tai said in an interview on Monday that he tried to explain that he had a right to be there. “We’re documenting historic events with our photographs, and when people are crying and hugging when Wolfe resigns, it becomes a personal issue that people all over the country can connect with,” he said. “It’s my job to help connect those people to what’s going on.” On Twitter, students who participated in the protest defended their decision to create a “safe space” without journalists. There were media personnel who were very hostile toward us when we asked to have certain spaces respected. — ConcernedStudent1950 (@CS_1950) Nov. 9, 2015 It's typically white media who don't understand the importance of respecting black spaces. — ConcernedStudent1950 (@CS_1950) Nov. 9, 2015 If you have a problem with us wanting to have our spaces that we create respected, leave! — ConcernedStudent1950 (@CS_1950) Nov. 9, 2015 Black people and our true allies, we love you and will continue to fight. — ConcernedStudent1950 (@CS_1950) Nov. 9, 2015 We truly appreciate having our story told, but this movement isn't for you. — ConcernedStudent1950 (@CS_1950) Nov. 9, 2015 The campsite is inclusive of all identities has it's always been, but it was created by black students! — ConcernedStudent1950 (@CS_1950) Nov. 10, 2015 We ask for no media in the parameters so the place where people live, fellowship, & sleep can be protected from twisted insincere narratives — ConcernedStudent1950 (@CS_1950) Nov. 10, 2015 White, black, and all other ethnicities have been able to converse and build from fellowshipping at the camp site. That isn't for your story — ConcernedStudent1950 (@CS_1950) Nov. 10, 2015 As the video circulated online, Mr. Tai, who won an award in June for Best Single Photograph in a college journalism awards program, received widespread support, much of it from members of the news media. Very impressed with how @nonorganical handled himself while being intimidated. In hostile times like this it'd be hard not to give in & walk — Ron Davis (@bigRONDO74) Nov. 10, 2015 Thank you for both standing your ground and doing it in a respectful way today @nonorganical — Christine Jackson (@Cjax1694) Nov. 9, 2015 Wow. Didn't mean to become part of the story. Just trying to do my job. Thanks everyone for the support. — Tim Tai (@nonorganical) Nov. 10, 2015 Poster Comment: She should wear a burka to avoid being photographed. 
Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri, ordered a journalist to leave an area where demonstrators had gathered on campus.
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#26. To: hondo68 (#0)
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This totalitarian leftist balloonhead Melissa Click has resigned her 'courtesy appointment'.
According to her online bio, her “current research projects involve 50 Shades of Grey readers, the impact of social media in fans’ relationship with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality television programming, and messages about work in children’s television programs.” She earned her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a dissertation titled “It’s ‘a Good Thing’: The Commodification of Femininity, Affluence, and Whiteness in the Martha Stewart Phenomenon.” https://communication.missouri.edu/faculty/click http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi? article=1007&context=open_access_dissertations
Oh well. Thanks for that. I think I just flushed better paper down the toilet today than the paper used to print out Click's doctorate. I will save 10s of thousands of dollars now. I'm not sending my sons to these little Marxist camps called universities. Can you homeschool college:)?
#35. To: redleghunter (#33)
Mrs Der takes gradute courses on line . She takes college credit courses every year on line to maintain her certification . I think at this pointon line degrees are becoming more legit and accepted . Beats paying all that extra $$$$ so the students can extend their childhood in fancy student union centers and gymnasiums that have climbing walls . I just wish we had the internet when I was going to school. I spent hours going to libraries and writing notes on index cards . Just think of all those all nighters I could've avoided .
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What the hell is a 'courtesy appointment' - a new way for The Idiot Left to steal taxpayer dollars?
#28. To: Hank Rearden (#26)
#33. To: tomder55 (#28)
According to her online bio, her “current research projects involve 50 Shades of Grey readers, the impact of social media in fans’ relationship with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality television programming, and messages about work in children’s television programs.” She earned her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a dissertation titled “It’s ‘a Good Thing’: The Commodification of Femininity, Affluence, and Whiteness in the Martha Stewart Phenomenon.”
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