“The protesters don’t have to like it, politicians don’t have to like it, the news audience doesn’t have to like it, heck, even reporters themselves don’t have to enjoy it, but journalists have absolute rights to cover public events that they deem to be newsworthy”, he said. Tai handled himself professionally and with poise.
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“I felt this was just mistreating a journalist who was doing his job”.
Near the end of the video, another adult, identified as Click, tells another reporter, “You need to get out”, before asking other protesters for help. When Click called for “some muscle” to settle the boundary issue, it guaranteed that Tai and Schierbecker’s little story would, indeed, reach hundreds of thousands of viewers, as the cable news networks exploded in indignation.
What I saw in the video that came out of Monday’s events did not appear to me to cross the line of a professional storyteller going after a story.
“Ironic that particularly faculty members would result to those kinds of things for no good reason.”
Dr. Click and her accomplice may also be guilty of battery as our student on one or two occasions protested being pushed by the two women. “He apologized and I accepted”, wrote Tai in an e-mail to the Erik Wemple Blog. I’m still having trouble with it. Most of the journalism tribe around the country is angry, too. “Much more needs to be done before we can move forward”. “I’m documenting this for a national news organization”. Janna Basler, Missouri’s Director of Greek Life, can be seen early in the video getting in Tai’s face. The incident with Tai was caught on camera by another photographer.
Tim Tai, a photojournalist, and members of Concerned Student 1950 in a confrontation about where photographs can be taken on the quad of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., November 9, 2015. “It will also help to soften the hard feelings of journalists who no longer respect this school”. The protesters gained the support of the Mizzou football team over the weekend and the actions eventually led to the resignations of Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin and President Tim Wolfe on Monday.
Click wasn’t the only Missouri staffer in the video. Her appointment on the student-faculty board, which is charged with making recommendations on the operations of the student-run newspaper The Maneater, is set to expire in August 2016.
The professor did hold a “courtesy appointment” at the journalism school, which she resigned from this week at the same time journalism faculty were meeting to discuss the appointment. He said Click’s courtesy cross appointment in the journalism school was being reviewed. Her home, the Communications Department in the School of Arts and Sciences, wasn’t real happy, either. And while I understand this was not a journalism professor, the problem exists that on that campus there are students and teachers who have no idea what the First Amendment is about, or what constitutes free speech. We reiterate our commitment as communication scholars to the transformative power of dialogue; we believe words shape our realities and that engaging multiple perspectives is vital. “I can’t remove myself from being part of the story”.
The best example of this was Terrell J. Starr, who said he’s working on a column for the Washington Post today and brought up the very justified argument that the media is dominated by people who look, think and act like me, as a white man, and that media has left a legacy that engenders mistrust.
“Delays, including posting information to social media, can often reduce the chances of identifying the responsible parties”, the e-mail said.
“The story involves the failure of administrators, a student on day 6 of a hunger strike, and creative, fearless students”, she continued.
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“Yesterday was an historic day at MU – full of emotion and confusion”, Click said in a statement released Tuesday by the university’s Department of Communication.
