i m being pushed! you re not doing our job. it s our right to walk forward. martha: i don t know if we have it, but you can also see the professor in this, her name is melissa click, and at one point she s trying to push this camera guy off campus who, by the way, covered free speech issues starting in ferguson and has gotten a lot of coverage. she says you have to get out of here, and she calls for muscle to get this cameraman off our campus? leslie, really? absolutely terrible, disgusting. i mean, one of the things that i think everybody has seen at the university of missouri is that they did not need to resort to violence to get their point. they went with the power of the purse and economics as the cost of that football game not being played, i think, really led to the resignations of these two men. with this, the first amendment enables all press whether they re a part of the university or not to cover a story. now, you do have the right to put your hand up or to walk away
can i talk to you? you need to get out. you need to get out. no, i don t. you need to get out. i actually don t. who wants to help me get this reporter out of here. i need muscle over here. the new york times and others have now identified the woman you saw at the end asking for some muscle out here as melissa click, assistant professor, believe it or not, of mass media at the university. she did not respond for request for comment last night. the student photographer won a national award for his coverage of ferguson, missouri. a lot to get through there, joe. i ve got to say i m stunned by so many things that have happened here. i ve been asking, first of all, for the past couple days i will say, i ve been ignorant of what s been happening at the university of missouri but i asked specifically when the football team made national news what incidents of systemic racism was there? what has this president done
here in the quad reminding everybody that they have to respect the first amendment. as far as the teacher, that teacher, who you are seeing there, shes assistant professor melissa click, she teaches mass media and she s clearly trying to restrict first amendment rights of a journalist in a public space. the university of missouri is considered one of the best, if not the best journalism school in the united states. so we went to her office to see if we could find professor click, to if see might be able to ask us what was behind the behavior. she wasn t there she did not return phone calls or repeated e-mails. we are starting to hear from her employers. we did talk to the dean. he did release a statement saying that she has a courtesy appointment at the journalism school and that courtesy appointment is being reviewed bit faculty as far as her full-time employer, the
then you have the license to malign someone, to attack them, to get them expelled or here to use muscle on them. this is exactly what it s deserved. the administrators who tolerated all this are now the ones who are are getting kicked out and have to resign in the most cowardly way. it was swift. just one point, the journalism school wants you to know that assistant professor melissa click is missouri school of journalism. she is a member of the mu department of communication in the college of arts and sciences. so there you have it. this is p.c. culture incapsulated, is itluñ÷ not? it is really interesting. i wanted to make that clarification on behalf of the university of missouri journalism school, which the student who is being pushed around on the video is actually a student. i regret using the wrong strategy. but she still works for the communications school and great advocate of the power of social media.
disregard for student journalists. what was your personal reaction, if you don t mind my asking? i was pretty mad about it. yeah, i would think some as we mentioned dean of the journalism school says faculty members are reviewig this professor, who called for the muscle, melissa click, and her courtesy appointment. do you think she should be stripped of her courtesy opportunities? i think that s probably reasonable response. keep in mine that doesn t do anything in terms she s still a faculty member, and in communications department. we have a mass communications department, a school of journalism. some schools it s combined. but here, they re totally separate. and i can t speak to what that department may or may not be saying or doing about her. let s turn to the broader issue, because obviously the students that were seen in the video is a small percentage of the students protesting for