OK, who's the wise guy who tried to friend John Carroll on Facebook?
The Globe today has a business-section story about some panel discussion on how Masters of the Universe should respond when bloggers catch them in a lie or point out major failings in their products - which the Globe seems to think is a new phenomenon in this Age of Recession, as opposed to something that's been going on for awhile now. In any case, one of the people on the panel was John Carroll, a BU media professor who, you may recall, got beat up by bloggers for mistaking a satirical post as fact, and who is still touchy about the subject:
... "One of the people who was sandblasting me for an entire week on his local political blog actually eight months later tried to friend me on Facebook."
More at Blue Mass. Group, or, as Carroll refers to them, "these people."
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John Carroll is a blowhard
John Carroll is a blowhard of the highest order. I notice "Professor" Carroll has a bachelor's degree - with honors! Journalism must be one of those trade school fields, where anyone who has held a job for five years can teach the subject. In the sciences, they're called "instructors," so as to note their lack of education.
Uh-oh
He's never going to be your friend now.
I have to agree.
I majored in film and even there, everyone had at least a masters with the exception of one professor who spent 20+ years in the field, so it was substituted for a master's since he knew more about the market than anyone else.