Meanings
alternative both-sideism · alternative both-sidism · alternative bothsidism
- uncountableBothsidesism.
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Not only does criticism not come in equal shapes and sizes, appropriate for all presidents and both political parties (a journalistic curse called “bothsideism”), but, when unfairly applied, as it has been in covering Biden, it runs the serious risk of further damaging our still free press and weakening our already shaky democracy.
2022 July 21, Marvin Kalb, “Press “bothsideism” has failed Biden, and America”, in Brookings
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bothsideism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bothsideism
“bothsideism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bothsideism. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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