NYT exec editor takes criticism 'like a 13 year old,' calls professor an 'a**hole'

Sarah D. | 4:57 PM on January 09, 2015

Yeah, we did. But it never hurts to be reminded, right?

USC j-school associate professor Marc Cooper recently posed a question to Dean Baquet, executive editor for The New York Times:

But Baquet didn’t care much for the question.

NYT managing ed Dean Baquet getting into it w/journalist and USC prof Marc Cooper on Facebook re: Hebdo cartoons. https://t.co/Bmd6LV2OtW

— Alex Parker (@AlexParkerDC) January 9, 2015

This apparently qualifies as “vigorous debate”:

NYT editor clearly gets social media at its fundamental essence. http://t.co/b7zxM8TmU6

— Brian Morrissey (@bmorrissey) January 9, 2015

Oh yeah. He gets it, all right. Heh.

This thing with Dean Baquet on Marc Cooper's Facebook page is quite literally dumbfounding.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) January 9, 2015

For what it’s worth, Baquet stands by what he said:

Why Dean Baquet called guy an “asshole” on Facebook: "Comment was nasty and arrogant. So I told him what I thought." http://t.co/RGdEo4RSfg

— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) January 9, 2015

Here’s what some other people thought:

So @deanbaquet went to Marc Cooper's Facebook page to act like a 13-year-old in defense of his publishing decisions: https://t.co/1XCCxQXm4w

— Matt Welch (@MattWelch) January 9, 2015