# For once the New York Times eschews bothsidesism **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532 "2020-04-25T02:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/1 "2020-04-25T02:35:35Z")
And this is what it took… > [@](#): > > We’ve deleted an earlier tweet and updated a sentence in our article that implied that only “some experts” view the ingestion of household disinfectants as dangerous. To be clear, there is no debate on the danger. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1253719616603541504) Jesus fucking Christ. Pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/2 "2020-04-25T04:01:08Z")
I love Ken Jennings responce [I would like to announce that when I gave wrong answers on Jeopardy, I was being sarcastic.](https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/1253751461772587008) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/3 "2020-04-25T04:14:08Z")
As I noted before the rewrite, a journalist must be careful when making sweeping statements. Only _sentient_ experts view the practice as dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/4 "2020-04-25T05:26:44Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > I love Ken Jennings responce [I would like to announce that when I gave wrong answers on Jeopardy, I was being sarcastic.](https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/1253751461772587008) 😃 That link leads to a copy [of this great video — Sarah Cooper lip-syncing to the President’s words.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxDKW75ueIU) (We also see a notable Doper commenting in that Twitter thread!) To encourage you to watch the video, here are some of the YouTube comments: > [@](#): > > At least he had the sense to avoid liability when he commented, “Well, you’re gonna have to use medical doctors, right?” > > This is absolutely phenomenal. Everything about it. Pure comedy genius. I have watched this about 12 times today, and I am so impressed. I am now a fan. Thanks so much for the laughs, omg! > > This is hysterical. “…some other way” has me rolling every time I watch it … The video is only 49 seconds, but I just watched some of the continuation of that Trump comment. Funniest was “Again I say maybe you can maybe you can’t. I’m not a doctor. But I’m like a person that has a good you-know-what.” ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/5 "2020-04-25T05:29:36Z")
I did watch it. Pretty entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/6 "2020-04-25T06:50:53Z")
“in some other way” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/7 "2020-04-25T09:26:57Z")
If he were any good at being sarcastic or funny in some other way, he would certainly have repeated is classic expression: “elements of medical”. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/8 "2020-04-25T11:49:03Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > (We also see a notable Doper commenting in that Twitter thread!) > " Ooh…who? (If this isn’t an unwanted “outing”). (Lots of great comments in that Twitter thread, BTW). ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/9 "2020-04-26T07:29:22Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Ooh…who? (If this isn’t an unwanted “outing”). False alarm. I recognized a Doper name, but now see nine Twitter accounts with that same name or a close variant; and the one posting seems different from ours. (That twitterer’s comments are no longer visible in that thread anyway: pushed off by higher-rated or more recent tweets.) It seemed like it might be a slight violation to mention the name but, anyway, it’s irrelevant now. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-once-the-new-york-times-eschews-bothsidesism/852532/10 "2020-04-26T11:40:27Z")
🙂