How did she figure it out?

Via Campus Reform:

A former co-worker of Melissa Click stepped up to defend his friend in an op-ed that calls the video journalism that sent Click packing the product of a “proto-totalitarian” state.

“A world in which people’s main activity, vastly enhanced by the technologies of video recording and social media, is to discipline each other for infractions of civility, is hardly a model of universal freedom. It is, in fact, proto-totalitarian, in the old-school, Arendt and Orwell sense,” University of Missouri (Mizzou) professor Andrew Hoberek writes.

Hoberek then describes Donald Trump as the candidate most likely to encourage poor journalistic ethics, even though Trump himself routinely criticizes the media and even vowed to “open up” libel laws so he can sue reporters for defamation.

“All that is needed to flip it over into fascism is a strong leader who can symbolically embody all the freedom that ordinary people are denied, and spend their time denying others. A leader, perhaps, whose most admired quality among his followers is that he’s not afraid to say whatever he wants,” he continues.

Although Hoberek does concede that the video of Click assaulting a student journalist was “painful to watch,” he concludes that last fall’s protests were “completely nonviolent” and Click’s termination was the result of anger “of men at women who speak up.”