By nobugsonme on Apr 7, 2008 in NYCHPD, bed bug data, bed bugs, david segal, new york, new york vs. bed bugs, newyorkvsbedbugs.org, nyc, nyc data, nycha, washington post | 3 Comments
David Segal’s article in the Washington Post was frustrating on many levels, but most of all because the actual data presented was erroneous and misleading.
Kudos are now due to Renee of NewYorkvsBedbugs.org, who was surely the party responsible for convincing the Washington Post via this campaign to correct the erroneous information used by David Segal […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 11, 2008 in bed bug backlash, bed bugs, bed bugs and the media, bedbugs, bob garfield, david segal, dr. michael potter, hyperbolic coverage, new york, nyc, on the media, the spread of bed bugs, washington post, wnyc | 8 Comments
This time Segal speaks with Bob Garfield on WNYC.com’s “On the Media.” You can listen to it, or read a translated-by-a-machine transcript with lots of goofy typos by clicking here. I made my own corrections to the faulty transcript in the excerpts quoted below.
In this discussion, David Segal continues the argument he made […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 26, 2008 in NYCHPD, Richard Cooper, bed bug stories, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, david segal, delusional parasitosis, epidemic, hotel, journalists with bed bugs, panic, pillow, plague, stress, the matchbox sign | 22 Comments
Three articles on bed bugs appeared today in the Washington Post. One gives a first-person account of what was apparently a not-so-serious bed bug case, and the second shrugs away the problem as a bunch of media hype.
“Yes, Tiny, Evil–and in My Bed” is the first, and provides yet another first-person account from […]
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