Dean Baquet Stirs the Facebook Pot

Outrageous? Or just a simple case of channeling Ben Bradlee?

dean baquetDoes it really matter what someone says on a first post-holiday-week Friday in the Facebook comments? If the accuser is a USC journalism professor and the angry respondent, ending the comment with “Asshole,” executive editor of the New York Times, apparently – yes.

Marc Cooper doesn’t like the stance Dean Baquet has taken with regards to publishing or not publishing contentious Charlie Hebdo cartoons. Baquet, in turn, does not appreciate the tone used by Cooper on Facebook to call him out.

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