[MAIPC] Another attack on invasive plant control

[Stephen Hiltner]

I've sent an email to WHYY in Philadelphia, where I think the show is
based, asking about whom to contact.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Kathi Mestayer <kschachinger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> got a link to a site where we could post a comment?
> I also just re-tweeted
> k
>
> On May 10, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Stephen Hiltner <stevehiltner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Though the NY Times has been doing more than its share, another surprising
> source of distortions on the invasive species issue is NPR's You Bet Your
> Garden program, whose post
> <http://www.gardensalive.com/product/lesser-celandinefor-some-a-bitter-buttercup/you_bet_your_garden>on
> lesser celandine shows up on the first page of a google search. The host,
> Mike McGrath, who comes from an organic gardening background, attempts to
> impose the organic ethic on habitat restoration, a subject he seems to know
> nothing about. He is widely listened to, and his website widely read,
> making him a significant contributor to the false narrative. Might we want
> to start a letter writing campaign, perhaps directly to NPR, to have him
> remove the misinformation from his website?
>
> As with the NY Times pieces, I've written a detailed critique:
>
>
> http://newscompanion.blogspot.com/2016/05/you-bet-your-garden-radio-show.html
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