Posted on 08/27/2019 9:12:49 AM PDT by george76
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.
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Others used the infestation to poke fun at the NYT’s reputation for catering to elites.
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Well, with just 11.34 years left.....
Paging Roscoe!
Wonder how they ever got out of the boardroom?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of jerks.
Bedbugs were practically eradicated in the USA for nearly 60 years...............
You can actually purchase bedbugs on the internet.
Hopefully some smart cookie purchased a whole passel of them who has access to the Times building and set them loose everywhere.
I’d laugh my can off if this were the case.
“Bedbugs were practically eradicated in the USA for nearly 60 years...............”
Until Mexico brought us new and improved ones.
Those weren’t bedbugs. They were agents of the (NYTimes-designated) “loose network of conservatives” aiming to discredit the Times. Recon operation, probably.
A.G. Sulzberger will be issuing a statement shortly.
Wonder how they ever got out of the boardroom?
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LOL!
And are the true owners going to demand their return?
Oh no! There are parasites in the New York Times building! (Wait... this is news?)
The grey lady has cooties.
Sounds more like the hanky panky room.
Burn that couch. It’s likely infected with more than bedbugs.
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