Paris is now infested with bedbugs—so the media tell us. But so mistrustful am I of the media that I can’t help wonder whether the whole story is a put-up job.
Oscar Rincon, a bedbug exterminator, holds up a glass vial containing live bedbugs used to train dogs, in New York, on July 26, 2010. Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images
Paris and the whole of France are now infested with bedbugs—so, at least, the media tell us. But so mistrustful of the media have I become that I can’t help but wonder whether the whole story isn’t what the French call a coup monté—that is to say, a put-up job.
Theodore Dalrymple
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Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
