Ex Mizzou Comm Professor: Didn’t know how public protests work.

Remember Melissa Click? She’s the former University of Missouri communications professor who was fired for calling for “muscle” to remove a student journalist from a campus protest. She claims she should not have been fired because she was inexperienced “with how public protests work.”

To be fair, Melissa Click  was origonally and incorrectly identified as a journalism professor. In fact, she is a communications professor who had a courtesy appointment to the University of Missouri’s journalism department, which was revoked after video of her threatening a student journalist was made public.

Still, many are having a hard time understanding how a communications professor wouldl not know how journalism at “public protests work.”  The video is from her appearance on 60 Minutes.

Read more in The National Review here

Read her self-penned explanation in The Washington Post here

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