The Bedbug Bunk: How The New York Times Used Fear And Misinformation To Spread Public Library Hysteria

www.edrants.com:

On Wednesday afternoon, the New York Times published a story written by Catherine Saint Louis claiming that public libraries were now devoting precious resources to a new threat: bedbugs nesting inside the spines of hardcover books and making their way into public libraries like Norway rats stowing away on dusty ships.

The piece, which drew understandable horror on Twitter on Thursday morning, was the seventh most emailed New York Times story by Thursday afternoon.

But Reluctant Habits has talked with many of Saint Louis?s sources and has learned that the Times article is misleading.

Read the whole story at www.edrants.com

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/the-bedbug-bunk-how-the-n_n_2253547.html

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