Clay Waters

Clay Waters is director of Times Watch, a division of the Media Research Center (MRC) that tracks the liberal bias of the New York Times. You can follow Times Watch on Twitter and Facebook.

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New York Times' Massacre Coverage Permeated With Calls for Gun Control

The New York Times wasted no time in politicizing Friday's massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Calls for legislation permeating the paper's weekend coverage of the ...
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NYT Still Ignoring CEO Mark Thompson Controversy: What Did He Know About Child Sex Abuse and When?

The New York Times ran two stories on the same page of Thursday's International section that touched on long-running sex-and-media scandals. But there's one the paper is ignoring that hits ...
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New York Times' Weisman Hits 'Far Right' Conservatives in Congress for 'Speaking Out of Turn'

Does reporter Jonathan Weisman think "far right" conservatives should just shut up? "Even before conservatives began speaking out of turn, pragmatists were pressing the leadership to take up and ...
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New York Times' Shane Calls Waterboarding 'Torture' on Front Page While Chiding 'Zero Dark Thirty''s Portrayal

New York Times intelligence reporter Scott Shane made the front page with a quasi-review of "Zero Dark Thirty," the critically acclaimed new release about the bin Laden raid that suggests ...
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NYT's Calmes Wins Dubious 'Unbiased' Title From Analyst Who Thinks Media Soft on Romney

Times reporter Jackie Calmes had the dubious honor of being singled out as a "diligent unbiased reporter" by Norman Ornstein, who coauthored a book blaming Republicans for everything wrong with ...
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NYT's Kim Severson Fears 'Controversial' Conservatives Are Shifting North Carolina to the Right

Kim Severson is worried about conservative control in North Carolina: "...North Carolina, long a politically moderate player in the South, will soon have its most conservative government in a ...
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NYT Provides More Pro-Union Coverage from Michigan; Union Protest Violence Ignored

Once again, New York Times reporter Monica Davey covered the successful bid by Michigan Republicans to pass "right to work" legislation, forbidding unions to coerce membership dues from workers, ...
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NYT's Egan Sees 'Smothering' of Gun-Control Debate, Says Limbaugh and Malkin Are Like Salt to a Slug

Huh? Timothy Egan writes "Conservatives complain about anti-free-speech vigilantes who keep incendiary voices of the right from being heard on college campuses, and they have a valid point. ...
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Another Sour NYTimes Story on Michigan's Right-to-Work Legislation Tilts Toward Losing Labor Side

Even as right-to-work legislation makes strides towards passage in labor-friendly Michigan, reporter Monica Davey focused on the losing, pro-union side from the start: "With Democratic furor ...
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NYT's Climate Change Reporter Dismisses 'Skeptical Skunks,' Assumes Problem 'Growing Worse'

Times climate-change reporter John Broder shows his deep respect for dissenting opinionsin a print story and on the paper's Green blog: "Few would compare a United Nations climate change ...
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Another Strange Communism Headline from NYTimes: 'Summoning Halcyon Days of Failed Ideals' in East Germany

Dictatorship and double standards invade the New York Times once again. Check the headline over Dennis Lim's Sunday Arts & Leisure profileof the director of "Barbara," set in Communist ...
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Another Strange Communism Headline from the NYTimes: 'Summoning Halcyon Days Of Failed Ideals' in East Germany

Dictatorship and double standards invade the New York Times once again. The Times also ran this jaw-dropping headline over a 2008 book review: "East Germany Had Its Charms, Crushed by ...
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Maureen Dowd Bids Farewell to 'GOP Universe of Arrogant, Uptight, Entitled, Bossy, Retrogressive White Guys'

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd riffs on what future archaeologists will make of the lost tribe formerly known as the Republican Party: "Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and ...
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NYT's Kantor Speculates on 2016 Plans of 'Widely Respected' Hillary Clinton, 'a Figure of Nearly Limitless Possibility'

Times reporter Jodi Kantor sketches out the future of Hillary Clinton, "a figure of nearly limitless possibility." Kantor lauded Hillary: "Of all the issues Mrs. Clinton has worked on over the ...

New York Times Spins Obama's Tax Hikes: 'Many...Families Have No Reason to Fret'

Well, that's a relief. "President Obama’s insistence that marginal tax rates rise for families making more than $250,000 has convinced millions of affluent Americans that they are likely to be ...
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NYT's Steinhauer Treats House Conservatives as Childish, Shows Strange New Respect for John Boehner

Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer used her full allotment of "conservative" labels describing the shock retirement of Sen. Jim DeMint, while another Steinhauer story condescendingly portrayed the ...
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NYT's Conservative vs. Liberal Contrast: 'Clashes Over Curbs on Labor' vs. 'New Freedoms in Washington'

New York Times reporters Steven Yaccino and Monica Davey sourly greeted landmark conservative legislation from Michigan, running four paragraphs of quotes from the losing side, compared to three ...
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NYT's Controversial CEO Mark Thompson Has Blasted Rupert Murdoch, Criticized Sarah Palin

As director general of the BBC, controversial new New York Times Co. chief executive Mark Thompson "launched a scathing attack on Rupert Murdoch's media empire, warning that BSkyB [Murdoch's ...
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NYT's Controversial CEO Mark Thompson Has Blasted Rupert Murdoch, Criticized Sarah Palin

As director general of the BBC, controversial new New York Times Co. chief executive Mark Thompson "launched a scathing attack on Rupert Murdoch's media empire, warning that BSkyB [Murdoch's ...
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New York Times' Preston Ditches Balance to Identify With Illegal 'Dream Warriors' Demanding Amnesty

Julia Preston identified wholly with a group of young illegals whose goal "is to build an army of Dream warriors. They had Dream warrior T-shirts, Dream warrior chants and the prayer of the ...