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
"Hope your students are more open minded. Asshole." — @DeanBaquet, reacting professionally to criticism. https://t.co/1XCCxQXm4w
— Matt Welch (@MattWelch) January 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/DBreckheimer/status/553662133679173632
I hope your students are more open-minded, and to demonstrate my open-mindedness let me call you "ASSHOLE".
— subtextny (@subtextny) January 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/553662740825251841
Aaron Shmulewitz 1, Dean Baquet 0. http://t.co/n4esuBagw4 pic.twitter.com/aFOmyDoyRa
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 9, 2015
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