{"id":1580,"date":"2015-11-15T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T04:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2015-11-15T21:34:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T04:34:47","slug":"i-need-some-muscle-over-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/i-need-some-muscle-over-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I Need Some Muscle Over Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely is\u00a0the 1st Amendment on such public display\u00a0as it has been in recent days at the University of Missouri. On the bright side, the right to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition Congress for a redress of grievances has been front and center. But so too has been some pretty ugly behavior that makes one wonder if people really understand why\u00a0press freedom is such an important part of the 1st Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xRlRAyulN4o\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> of the demonstration contains a\u00a0startling statement (at 6:30)&#8230;and even more so when you realize\u00a0who said it!<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York Times,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">She then yelled, \u201cWho wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In what may provide\u00a0some consolation to journalists and 1st Amendment supporters, Ms. Click resigned her position with the School of Journalism\u00a0the following\u00a0day.<\/p>\n<p>Again, according to the <em>NYT<\/em>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mitchell S. McKinney, the chairman of the department of communication, released his own statement, saying: \u201cWe applaud student journalists who were working in a very trying atmosphere to report a significant story. Intimidation is never an acceptable form of communication.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can watch the full video here<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clash between media and ConcernedStudent1950 (full)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1S3yMzEee18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this version of the video the confrontation is @\u00a0the 7:15 mark<\/p>\n<p>Jan 27, 2016 update: The <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Melissa-Click-s-Inbox\/234891\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle of Higher Education published an article<\/a> that explores the content of Melissa Click&#8217;s email inbox in the days after the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely is\u00a0the 1st Amendment on such public display\u00a0as it has been in recent days at the University of Missouri. On the bright side, the right to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition Congress for a redress of grievances has been front and center. But so too has been some pretty ugly behavior that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/i-need-some-muscle-over-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Need Some Muscle Over Here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1st-amendment","category-ethics","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}