The University of Missouri at Columbia (Mizzou), the state’s flagship public university, has a problem on its hands: some students and professors are seeking to shut down reporting at the campus, in the wake of unrest that has been growing for weeks, and which led to yesterday’s resignation of university President Tim Wolfe.
As the New York Times and others are reporting, a video shows students physically pushing away reporters, and shows them being egged on by journalism assistant professor Melissa Click. The video shows Click targeting a journalist who is recording the tent city set up on the Mizzou campus.
The Beginning of a Mobocracy
“Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here,” Click is recorded saying, before the video cuts off. In context, it appears that Click is encouraging the unruly students to physically remove the videographer.
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