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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: 7976
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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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Agree ! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” - George S. Patton
A university campus is probably the least "free" place in the U.S. Forget about your first amendment freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly. 2nd amendment? You gotta be kidding me. Innocent until proven guilty? Due process? Not if you're a lacrosse player or a member of a fraternity or a college president. Freedom of association? Sure. If you're a minority.
It has been that way my whole life. I was kicked out of college and lost my GI bill because I stood up to a history professor in class and told he was wrong and teaching lies. Yes,I DID threaten to beat the shit out of him,but only because he started running his standard "I am a professor and a superior intellect,and you are just a dumb ass VN vet" attitude at me and refusing to discuss the differences. Yeah,he ended up losing his job over it,but that didn't keep him from writing a formal letter to the VA to complain about me "ripping off the VA for GI Bill money because I wasn't attending classes every day like everyone else." I was going to the VA hospital every Wed afternoon at 2 PM for physical therapy,and this SOB changed his test day from Friday afternoons to Wednesday afternoons so he could give me a zero and flunk me out. No,he wouldn't allow any make up tests. He claimed "It wouldn't be fair to the other students." Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I had a asshole prof like that.
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” - George S. Patton
You got what you deserved for threatening violence on him. We had many Vietnam war protestors on my campus in the mid-60s and no-one tried to muzzle them, much less threaten violence on them. It depends on the college. But in general, I agree with you that these there are a precious few colleges/unversities that will defend or even promote a dissenting word from the right of center crowd, and most of those are private institutions. However, in the classroom there comes a point when both sides of the argument need to shut up and get go with the course material. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Damn, a face like hers would make a freight train take a dirt road. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” - George S. Patton
Fuck you and fuck him,too. The SOB,who just happened to have served all of WW-2 stationed in Portsmouth,Va in the USCG, starting ranting and raving about how VN vets were punks and cowards who couldn't even defeat a part-time enemy,unlike the WW-2 vets that "fought a real war against a real enemy." I had too many good friends killed in action or crippled for life fighting against the North Vietnamese Army,who were far from a "part-time enemy" this asshole history teacher<(?) claimed we were fighting. The SOB was so ignorant of actual history he still thought we were fighting the VC in 1971,when the HISTORICAL FACTS are they were destroyed by Tet of 68. No way in hell was I about to let that slide.I not only stood up in class and corrected him on the VC and the NVA,but I also called him out on being a phoney WW-2 veteran by asking him how many Nazi bullets and bombs HE dodged in Portsmouth,Va. When he started to get mouthy with me,I told him to STFU or I would beat the shit out of him right there in the classroom. I made no apologies then,and I make no apologies now. And make no mistake about it,if he had continued to run his mouth about how VN vets were cowards and punks,his ass would have been leaving in a gurney. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
You got what you deserved for threatening violence on him. Fuck you and fuck him,too. Thank you for making my point, asshole. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Threatening violence on someon is a total punk move. A rtional person under control of his anger would just have told him to fuck off, called him an asshole, a liar, a shT head, etc. all in appropriate language for the setting. "I made no apologies then,and I make no apologies now." Then stop whinning about the legitimate consequences of your actions. That's another punk move. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Hollow words uttered by a ball-less punk. A rtional person under control of his anger would just have told him to fuck off, called him an asshole, a liar, a shT head, etc. all in appropriate language for the setting. Un,huh. And when that failed with a man that had already called you and your dead and crippled friends cowards,I imagine you would stick your tongue out at him and hold your breath until you turned blue? Or maybe started shrieking and had a slap-fight? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
If the president got fired(resign or else) for nothing then she should be fired out right for threats and living up to free speech.
Actually there were 2 dumbasses involved in that this is the other one... Meet Elisa Glick... Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
Meet Elisa Glick... Melissa Click, and Elisa Glick? Strange similarity in the names. Strange similarity in the names. Yea that's what I thought, maybe they're lezzies?? At least they don't share the same Halloween mask... Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
I watched part of the video. I am superior the those in the video. They shouldn't get any say in our government. They are to stupid.
Threatening violence on someon is a total punk move. Hollow words uttered by a ball-less punk. A rtional person under control of his anger would just have told him to fuck off, called him an asshole, a liar, a shT head, etc. all in appropriate language for the setting. Un,huh. And when that failed with a man that had already called you and your dead and crippled friends cowards,I imagine you would stick your tongue out at him and hold your breath until you turned blue? Or maybe started shrieking and had a slap-fight? Stupid words from a dumb, inatriculate asshole with an inferiority complex. I learned better after I decked an older kid in high school for calling me sh*t. Unlike you I learned that my brain and self-confidence are much, much stronger weapons than my fists. There is a time when physical violence is justified but other than in self-defense very few such times. It must suck to be you when sticks and stones break your bones. Do you miss your wittle wuniform? потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Okay then.
LOL! I have been accused of a lot of things by people that know me,but that ain't one of them. I learned better after I decked an older kid in high school for calling me sh*t. Sounds like he beat the hell out of you. Unlike you I learned that my brain and self-confidence are much, much stronger weapons than my fists. Uh,huh. Why not go to a real biker bar and put that theory into practice by kicking over a few Harley's in the parking lot and see how that works for you? There is a time when physical violence is justified but other than in self-defense very few such times. Calling my dead and crippled friends cowardly punks that couldn't fight in a "real war" is all the justification I needed then or need now to satisfy me,and I flat don't give a damn what you or anyone else thinks about it. Especially a punk like you that justifies his cowardice by spouting the BS you spout. It must suck to be you when sticks and stones break your bones. Are you REALLY that stupid? I'm betting I would have no trouble at all breaking your bones with sticks and stones. Or do you plan on donning your Metrosexual Man Super Hero Costume to protect yourself from sticks and stones,like Superman did with bullets? Do you miss your wittle wuniform? Another dumbass question. You don't know squat about anything,do you? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I had about ten of them like that.
Then it's nice to know that I'm not theonly one that calls other people ridulclously unsupportable names. "It must suck to be you when sticks and stones break your bones. Are you REALLY that stupid? I'm betting I would have no trouble at all breaking your bones with sticks and stones" Damn, Rambo, I am shaking in my boots. I guarantee you one thing, one or both of us would be dead. "Do you miss your wittle wuniform? Another dumbass question. You don't know squat about anything,do you? I know that I have you pessged on this. I'm beting that you also have a small dick. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Heh good one. What nice little Marxists. Don't know. Maybe they didn't want the press there at that moment because they just fired up a doobie after a long tiring day of bearing false witness. "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
You are a walking and talking idiot "touchy-feely" stereotype that doesn't know anything about anything. All you can do is regurgitate the nonsense you were taught by the left. Now you are even showing an interest in the size of my dick. Yeah,you are a tough guy,alright. I bet you have won two out of three slap fights,and one argument with someone homeless. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
You are right . The NVA was a tough opponent. They took a beating and kept on coming . Hard to know exact numbers ,but their losses were in the half million range throughout the war. My uncle was at Da Nang during Tet . The Viet Cong suffered devastating losses, and never regained their former strength. The NVA did the fighting after that . Their only victory was getting pukes like Walter Cronkite to declare the war a defeat . Happy Veterans Day ! Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Libs sure have a strange view about what the 1st amendment means. I'm guessing there are a lot of parents who are rethinking sending their kids to UM . Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
This totalitarian leftist balloonhead Melissa Click has resigned her 'courtesy appointment'.
This is nuts : To continue to ensure that the University of Missouri campus remains safe, the MU Police Department (MUPD) is asking individuals who witness incidents of hateful and/or hurtful speech or actions to: • Call the police immediately at [phone number redacted]. (If you are in an emergency situation, dial 911.) • Give the communications operator a summary of the incident, including location. • Provide a detailed description of the individual(s) involved. • Provide a license plate and vehicle descriptions (if appropriate). • If possible and if it can be done safely, take a photo of the individual(s) with your cell phone. Delays, including posting information to social media, can often reduce the chances of identifying the responsible parties. While cases of hateful and hurtful speech are not crimes, if the individual(s) identified are students, MU’s Office of Student Conduct can take disciplinary action. Maj. Brian Weimer, the campus police’s public information officer confirmed this email was sent out by MUPD . Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
She can't be fired. She is tentured. She still has her University job.
Psalm 37
She has a degree in communications. traditionally, she has a courtesy appointment to the school that she resigned from. She can't be fired from the University.
Psalm 37
Good question. I have never heard of such a thing. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
The little spoiled Marxists are getting their way. I heard Carson respond to the Yale protests, I mean riots. He said if university leaders don't start leading their will be riots and anarchy which will make the 60s look calm.
"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
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:)? "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
As I understand the situation, a professor with a Communication Degree has a "courtesy" appointment to the Journalism School which is a part of the University.
Psalm 37
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 . Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Heh yeah. And typewriters:) Spending days sorting out my short hand to type up papers. Not to mention spell and grammar checks. Wow the kids have it easy today. "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
" She should wear a burka to avoid being photographed. "
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
#3. To: misterwhite, Stoner (#2)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: misterwhite (#2)
A university campus is probably the least "free" place in the U.S.
#5. To: sneakypete (#4)
#6. To: sneakypete (#4)
Yes,I DID threaten to beat the shit out of him,but only because he started running his standard "I am a professor and a superior intellect,and you are just a dumb ass VN vet" attitude at me and refusing to discuss the differences.
#7. To: hondo68 (#0)
" She should wear a burka to avoid being photographed. "
#8. To: SOSO (#6)
(Edited)
You got what you deserved for threatening violence on him.
#9. To: sneakypete (#8)
#10. To: sneakypete (#8)
The SOB,who just happened to have served all of WW-2 stationed in Portsmouth,Va in the USCG, starting ranting and raving about how VN vets were punks and cowards who couldn't even defeat a part-time enemy,unlike the WW-2 vets that "fought a real war against a real enemy."
#11. To: SOSO (#10)
Threatening violence on someon is a total punk move.
#12. To: hondo68 (#0)
#13. To: hondo68 (#3)
#14. To: CZ82, Click and Glick (#13)
Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#15. To: hondo68 (#14)
Melissa Click, and Elisa Glick?
#16. To: hondo68 (#0)
#17. To: sneakypete (#11)
#18. To: A K A Stone (#16)
I am superior the those in the video. They shouldn't get any say in our government. They are to [sic] stupid.
#19. To: SOSO (#17)
Stupid words from a dumb, inatriculate asshole with an inferiority complex.
#20. To: Stoner (#5)
I had a asshole prof like that.
#21. To: sneakypete (#19)
LOL! I have been accused of a lot of things by people that know me,but that ain't one of them.
#22. To: hondo68, tomder55, A K A Stone, BobCeleste, Don, liberator, CZ82 (#0)
She should wear a burka to avoid being photographed.
#23. To: SOSO (#21)
I know that I have you pessged on this. I'm beting that you also have a small dick.
#24. To: sneakypete (#8)
The SOB was so ignorant of actual history he still thought we were fighting the VC in 1971,when the HISTORICAL FACTS are they were destroyed by Tet of 68.
#25. To: redleghunter (#22)
Don't know. Maybe they didn't want the press there at that moment because they just fired up a doobie after a long tiring day of bearing false witness.
#26. To: hondo68 (#0)
(Edited)
What the hell is a 'courtesy appointment' - a new way for The Idiot Left to steal taxpayer dollars?
#27. To: redleghunter (#22)
#28. To: Hank Rearden (#26)
#29. To: Justified (#12)
#30. To: Hank Rearden (#26)
#31. To: Hank Rearden (#26)
This totalitarian leftist balloonhead Melissa Click has resigned her 'courtesy appointment'. What the hell is a 'courtesy appointment' -
#32. To: tomder55 (#27)
#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.”
#34. To: sneakypete (#31)
#35. To: redleghunter (#33)
Can you homeschool college:)?
#36. To: tomder55 (#35)
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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