From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

At the University of Missouri on Monday, a skirmish over media access in a much larger battle over racial discrimination.

Just a hundred miles from Ferguson, student protests led university president

Tim Wolfe to resign. Wolf was under fire for not addressing racially charged

incidents on campus. Black students complained of repeated racial slurs. A swastika was found in a dorm.

Some say there's been racial tension on the predominantly white campus for years.

For a week, an African-American graduate student named Jonathan Butler staged a hunger strike

that he said would only end with Wolf's resignation.

Also Monday, an altercation.

You need to go.

Students, can you tell him?

You don't have a right to take our photo.

A student photographer, Tim Tai, on assignment for ESPN, explained his rights as the protesters

refereed access to the university quad, calling it a media-free safe space and linking

arms to keep reporters out.

This is the first amendment that protects your right to stand here. The same video showed a

communications professor calling for muscle to keep reporters out. She's since apologized, but

too late, condemnation of the assault on press freedom was swift and fierce.

Stephen Thrasher, a writer at large for the Guardian U.S., reported from the campus,

as a journalist and an African American, first he was stunned, and then he got it.

The thing that was really shocking for me that I started hearing were these chants that I've heard,

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