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https://nypost.com/2019/08/26/new-york-times-sparks-social-media-jokes-over-bedbugs-memo/
New York Times sparks social media jokes over bedbugs memo
By Keith J. Kelly
August 26, 2019 | 10:14pm | Updated
The New York Times sent out an alert Monday warning that bedbugs were spotted in its newsroom — triggering hilarity on social media.
According to an internal memo obtained by The Post, the NY Times said it “discovered evidence of bedbugs in a wellness room on the second floor, a couch on the third floor and a booth on the fourth floor.”
“In an abundance of caution, the second floor room has been temporarily closed, the booth has been blocked off and the couch has been removed to be treated and professionally cleaned,” the memo said. Exterminators also swept the area, according to the memo.
The wellness room, couch and booth “were all added to make the place feel more, oh, startupy and digital and youthful back in 2017,” one source sarcastically noted. “You wouldn’t have had any of this stuff in the old newsroom of chairs and desks.”
Social media had a field day spoofing the Gray Lady’s bedbug woes.
“Bed Bugs Urge Unity Vs Parasitic Relationships,” read a tweet spoofing the uproar over the NYT’s Aug. 6 headline, “Trump urges unity vs. racism.” The headline, written in response to Trump’s national address over the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, triggered a backlash by NYT staffers and was subsequently changed — which prompted another round of backlash to the update.
“Gotta NYT this headline up: ‘In a newsroom under siege, bedbugs are the latest predator,’ ” joked Stephen Stirling, a New Jersey writer, in an apparent jab at the ongoing headline controversy.
Others used the infestation to poke fun at the NYT’s reputation for catering to elites.
“i want to hear what joe six pack in real america thinks of the bed bugs before i form any opinions,” tweeted @GC_Esau.
The Post also reached out to C. Claiborne Ray, who had warned in a July 1 column that bedbugs were becoming resistant to insecticides. But Ray said she had been writing from home and had no insights into the bedbug attack. Besides, she said, the paper killed her science column a week ago.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/26/new-york-times-sparks-social-media-jokes-over-bedbugs-memo/
New York Times sparks social media jokes over bedbugs memo
By Keith J. Kelly
August 26, 2019 | 10:14pm | Updated
The New York Times sent out an alert Monday warning that bedbugs were spotted in its newsroom — triggering hilarity on social media.
According to an internal memo obtained by The Post, the NY Times said it “discovered evidence of bedbugs in a wellness room on the second floor, a couch on the third floor and a booth on the fourth floor.”
“In an abundance of caution, the second floor room has been temporarily closed, the booth has been blocked off and the couch has been removed to be treated and professionally cleaned,” the memo said. Exterminators also swept the area, according to the memo.
The wellness room, couch and booth “were all added to make the place feel more, oh, startupy and digital and youthful back in 2017,” one source sarcastically noted. “You wouldn’t have had any of this stuff in the old newsroom of chairs and desks.”
Social media had a field day spoofing the Gray Lady’s bedbug woes.
“Bed Bugs Urge Unity Vs Parasitic Relationships,” read a tweet spoofing the uproar over the NYT’s Aug. 6 headline, “Trump urges unity vs. racism.” The headline, written in response to Trump’s national address over the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, triggered a backlash by NYT staffers and was subsequently changed — which prompted another round of backlash to the update.
“Gotta NYT this headline up: ‘In a newsroom under siege, bedbugs are the latest predator,’ ” joked Stephen Stirling, a New Jersey writer, in an apparent jab at the ongoing headline controversy.
Others used the infestation to poke fun at the NYT’s reputation for catering to elites.
“i want to hear what joe six pack in real america thinks of the bed bugs before i form any opinions,” tweeted @GC_Esau.
The Post also reached out to C. Claiborne Ray, who had warned in a July 1 column that bedbugs were becoming resistant to insecticides. But Ray said she had been writing from home and had no insights into the bedbug attack. Besides, she said, the paper killed her science column a week ago.