"Hope your students are more open minded. A**hole."

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet called an associate professor at the USC Annenberg School an “asshole” on Facebook today after the professor took a shot at Baquet for not running Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammed cartoons.

“Dear Marc,” Baquet wrote to USC’s Marc Cooper, “appreciate the self righteous second guessing without even considering there might be another point of view. Hope your students are more open minded. Asshole.”

Reached via email, Baquet told POLITICO: “Lots of people have disagreed with my decision. Some of them are in The Times. I get that. Mr Cooper’s comment was nasty and arrogant. So I told him what I thought.”