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I’m going to take a break from my regular “handwritten” format to focus on something really important to me: the very freedom that allows me to write my thoughts in this blog. I’m sure most of you reading this are aware of the recent events at Mizzou. If not, this Before I write more, I want to make an important distinction: what I’m about to say has nothing to do with my opinions about #ConcernedStudent1950, the hunger strike or the resignations of Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin. This is purely about one Yesterday, as the protestors on Carnahan Quad found out about the resignation of Tim Wolfe, the media–CNN, NBC, The New York Times and ESPN, just to name a few–descended on the campsite to get footage, interviews and photos for their stories. In other words, the journalists were doing their jobs. It was an important story, one that the country should know, and they were there to exercise their first In the midst of the chaos, MU Communications Professor Melissa Click aided students to injury, she was directly blocking out a student journalist. The activist students involved argued that “this movement isn’t for “You are infringing on what they need right now, which is to be alone.” Protestors even shouted at reporters, saying, “Hey ho, hey Many of my fellow journalism major friends who wanted to docu*ent the event, some of whom were doing projects as clas* as*ignments, told me Their pas*ion doesn’t upset me. Their adamance doesn’t upset me. But the blatant hypocrisy does. And despite the fact that I’m not normally a politically-charged person, I hope it upsets you, too. “rights, viewpoints and freedoms” that students respect? If activists were so eager to make the country aware of their struggle, why were they hostile towards the people whose job it is to All of these attitudes were from people here at Mizzou, home to the first and finest journalism school in the country. The school that I’ve been dreaming about coming to since I wrote my first news article when I was 13. The school who wrote the Journalists Creed and