Chris Bray wrote to Boston College PR man Jack Dunn, cc'ing the college's administration and faculty, on 1 February 2014 in amazement after listening to Dunn lower the share value of Boston College's reputation.

From: Chris Bray

Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 4:50 PM

To: jack.dunn@bc.edu ; thomas.hachey@bc.edu ; robert.oneill.1@bc.edu ; william.leahy@bc.edu ; kevin.oneill@bc.edu ; delaneyp@bc.edu ; ed.hayward@bc.edu ; sean.hennessey@bc.edu ; bridget.burke.2@bc.edu ; amy.braitsch@bc.edu ; david.horn.3@bc.edu ; adrienne.pruitt@bc.edu ; joseph.quinn@bc.edu ; thomas.chiles@bc.edu
Cc: Ed Moloney ; Anthony McIntyre

Subject: fascinating

Jack,

I've just had the extraordinary experience of listening to your interview on NPR's "On the Media," and I'm amazed again at your shamelessness. You've discovered that Anthony McIntyre is "an individual from Northern Ireland with a long criminal record" and that "his work was very weak." Did you or any of your colleagues notice any of that during the period of years that Boston College contracted with him, paid him, and took his work into your archive? Did you notice any of that during the years that you boasted about the project to faculty and staff in the BC Chronicle, and during the years when Thomas Hachey and Robert O'Neill wrote the introduction to Ed Moloney's book and took a share of the royalties? The project began in 2001; in 2014, a university suddenly discovers that, my goodness, one of the researchers we hired had a criminal record? Poor dear, did you clutch your pearls?

If NPR had interviewers who were sentient -- I'm not holding my breath -- the follow-up question would have been, "If all of that is true, why did you hire him and continue to work with him?" Lucky for you to have an exchange with a mediocre interviewer, the only kind who would ever believe anything you say.

I invite you, or anyone at BC, to answer this question: If you regard Anthony McIntyre as "an individual...with a long criminal record" whose work "was very weak," why did Boston College hire him, pay him, and archive his work? Do you not notice that if your claim is true, you've damned the organization and oversight of a project that your university sponsored? Why, gasp, this person is a convicted criminal who does shoddy work, says...the university that hired him.

Yet again, I'm embarrassed for you.

Chris Bray



Embarrassed for Jack Dunn ... Yet Again

Chris Bray wrote to Boston College PR man Jack Dunn, cc'ing the college's administration and faculty, on 1 February 2014 in amazement after listening to Dunn lower the share value of Boston College's reputation.

From: Chris Bray

Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 4:50 PM

To: jack.dunn@bc.edu ; thomas.hachey@bc.edu ; robert.oneill.1@bc.edu ; william.leahy@bc.edu ; kevin.oneill@bc.edu ; delaneyp@bc.edu ; ed.hayward@bc.edu ; sean.hennessey@bc.edu ; bridget.burke.2@bc.edu ; amy.braitsch@bc.edu ; david.horn.3@bc.edu ; adrienne.pruitt@bc.edu ; joseph.quinn@bc.edu ; thomas.chiles@bc.edu
Cc: Ed Moloney ; Anthony McIntyre

Subject: fascinating

Jack,

I've just had the extraordinary experience of listening to your interview on NPR's "On the Media," and I'm amazed again at your shamelessness. You've discovered that Anthony McIntyre is "an individual from Northern Ireland with a long criminal record" and that "his work was very weak." Did you or any of your colleagues notice any of that during the period of years that Boston College contracted with him, paid him, and took his work into your archive? Did you notice any of that during the years that you boasted about the project to faculty and staff in the BC Chronicle, and during the years when Thomas Hachey and Robert O'Neill wrote the introduction to Ed Moloney's book and took a share of the royalties? The project began in 2001; in 2014, a university suddenly discovers that, my goodness, one of the researchers we hired had a criminal record? Poor dear, did you clutch your pearls?

If NPR had interviewers who were sentient -- I'm not holding my breath -- the follow-up question would have been, "If all of that is true, why did you hire him and continue to work with him?" Lucky for you to have an exchange with a mediocre interviewer, the only kind who would ever believe anything you say.

I invite you, or anyone at BC, to answer this question: If you regard Anthony McIntyre as "an individual...with a long criminal record" whose work "was very weak," why did Boston College hire him, pay him, and archive his work? Do you not notice that if your claim is true, you've damned the organization and oversight of a project that your university sponsored? Why, gasp, this person is a convicted criminal who does shoddy work, says...the university that hired him.

Yet again, I'm embarrassed for you.

Chris Bray



6 comments:

  1. Chris,

    I doubt Jack is embarrassed as he is a tad on the side of ostentatious and with that trait we can rule out most normal human emotion or reaction.
    I think you were perhaps overly fair in your description of a “mediocre interviewer” which still sounded like a PR disaster a staged interview where he with great success displayed how far removed he is on the subject.

    Using Danny Morrison as a character reference has to be one of the dumbest statements in the whole fiasco.
    The other point that rattled me is his gratuitous use of the Jean McConville case.
    Jack Dunn, Danny Morrison, nor the RUC could care less for the unfortunate woman I don’t recall Danny Morrison demanding justice for the family and perhaps his article on “touts” would suggest the poor woman got what she deserved.
    I could be wrong on Morrison but Dunn was not asked by the interviewer to explain who Morrison is so for the uninformed American audience he comes off as honest.

    I feel sorry for the McConville family being used in his weak defense all I can say is shame on Dunn.

    I doubt there is any chance of a decent interview ever taking place with Dunn it would be good to see you interviewing him.

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  2. I've tried to interview him -- he just ends up ranting and threatening. My last email from Jack said, in a totally unhinged fashion, that he thought I needed to seek psychiatric care. The psychological term for this is "projection." He's a sick puppy.

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  3. Chris,

    I am unsure if that is a compliment or an insult my first impression of Jack was his aloofness.
    I do think the interview was scripted he definitely sounded ridiculous but I think his smugness overrides any chance of him presenting any fair assessment on the failure of BC.
    You may be right and by chance he might be doing some self-projection obviously he has issues with truth and lies and became very inventive in deflecting any responsibility away from him or BC.

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  4. Chris,

    Jack the Jesuit (as Robert wittingly tagged him in an earlier piece) seems a bit of a bully. I recall him implying he would attack you if he ever met you on his own. It was in response to one of those times when you destroyed his credibility. But as there have been so many of those I no longer remember which one!

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  5. He did imply that he would attack me if he ever met me in person -- it was one of those "you'd better pray we're never in the same room together" messages. I replied to point out that I'd just stood next to him in the hallway at BC after Judge Young's on-campus hearing. Response? Silence.

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