Isn’t the point of campus protests to generate as much press attention as possible?

That’s why it’s hard to understand why University of Missouri demonstrators were demanding news media exit the campus. Using a variation of an infamously overused chant, they shouted “hey hey, ho ho, reporters have got to go!”

An escalating series of protests over race relations at the system’s Columbia campus culminated in the resignation of its president, Tim Wolfe, earlier today.

*** Update: The Daily Caller has more about the effort to intimidate the media into leaving campus, including the professor behind this disturbing development. See it here. ***

Below, the clip, followed by AP coverage of Wolfe’s exit and the front page of today’s Missourian newspaper:

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