A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us None via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/11/a-young-journalist-setting-an-example-for-the-rest-of-us/625865/ The point the photographer (Tim Tai) makes is that they’re all standing on public property, and just as they have a First Amendment right to protest, he has a First Amendment right to record what is going on. And,…
Melissa Click: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Melissa Click, a communications professor at the University of Missouri, is facing criticism after confronting a student journalist covering protests there. via Heavy.com: https://heavy.com/news/2015/11/melissa-click-janna-basler-missouri-communications-professor-video-block-student-journalists-facebook-salary-photos-tim-tai-mark-schierbecker/ The professor, Melissa Click, is seen in the video telling a student photographer, Mark Schierbecker, he “needs to get out” of the…
Protester vs Photographer Rights: On That U. of Missouri Video I offer these screen shots for the way they speak to the complicated mess surrounding visual access and photo coverage of news events today. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/11/protester-vs-photographer/ Knowing they, as well as the lay citizen, can do their own documentation and distribution, states, extra-state actors as…
Link: Professor Melissa Click says she can’t recall pushing University of Missouri student Mark Schierbecker, who recorded her calling for “muscle” to remove him from a campus protest. But Schierbecker says she did push him and he has filed a complaint with the with campus police