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.
Author Articles
6/1/2012 2:25 PM ET
A Politico story angered liberal journalists by daring to admit conservatives had a point about media bias in the presidential campaign. Times political editor Richard Stevenson rallied to his ...
5/31/2012 12:40 PM ET
The New York Times is transparently invested in promoting J Street,
the left-wing lobbying group of Jewish doves, as an influential
counterweight to the more hawkish American Israel Public ...
5/31/2012 11:45 AM ET
New York Times reporter Ashley Parker: "That and other statements left
the Romney campaign to fend off questions about the candidate’s views on
that long-discredited accusation and whether he ...
5/31/2012 11:17 AM ET
A gusher of praise for Bill and Hillary Clinton by reporter Peter Applebome: "Almost everyone in town has a
favorite encounter -- perhaps the Clintons’ appearance at High Holy Day
services at ...
5/30/2012 6:06 PM ET
And it's all Republicans' fault, according to the New York Times:
"According to recent polling, Wisconsin, once known for
progressive policy and upper-Midwestern civility, is now the most ...
5/30/2012 3:00 PM ET
Campaign reporter Trip Gabriel, on top of the big stories: "As Ann Romney immersed herself in
the elite world of riding over the last dozen years, she relied on Jan
Ebeling as a trusted tutor ...
5/30/2012 1:53 PM ET
And it's all Republicans' fault, according to the New York Times: "According to recent polling, Wisconsin, once known for
progressive policy and upper-Midwestern civility, is now the most ...
5/29/2012 5:12 PM ET
Times religion columnist Mark Oppenheimer attacked conservatives for
making hay out of Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright's anti-American rants and
"liberation theology," insisting conservative have ...
5/29/2012 3:08 PM ET
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's brand of big-spending Keynesianism is truly out of this world: "This is hard to get people to do, much better, obviously, to build
bridges and roads and ...
5/29/2012 2:22 PM ET
Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller cheers on gay marriage in his latest column on the issue's prospects at the Supreme Court: "....If that lesbian or gay couple in Mississippi or ...
5/29/2012 1:39 PM ET
Times religion columnist Mark Oppenheimer attacks conservatives for making hay out of Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright's anti-American rants and "liberation theology," insisting conservative have it ...
5/25/2012 12:22 PM ET
The usual pro-Obama tilt in postings to the New York Times' political blog was even more pronounced during the week of
May 21-25. As of
noon Friday, out of 23 matching posts, the headlines ...
5/24/2012 12:46 PM ET
Maureen Dowd takes two column shots at the Vatican for allowing no criticism or second-guessing: "The bishops and the Vatican care passionately about putting women in chastity belts....Absolute ...
5/24/2012 11:03 AM ET
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes: "As a candidate and as president, Mr.
Obama has avoided discussing race except in rare instances when he
seemed to have little choice -- ...
5/23/2012 2:16 PM ET
The Times praised "an uneventful
weekend" of anti-NATO protests in Chicago -- but there were 90 arrests, anti-cop violence, and a foiled terrorist plot. The paper also strove to portray ...
5/23/2012 12:28 PM ET
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes stacks her sources 5-1 in favor of raising taxes to close the deficit, and tries to nudge Congress into supporting them: "Tax increases were part ...
5/22/2012 2:11 PM ET
Journalist Joe "flaming moderate" Klein pronounced himself offended by "radical Republican" Jonah Goldberg's new book The Tyranny of Cliches, arguing that "liberals stopped being statists a long ...
5/22/2012 11:52 AM ET
The paper got what it paid for: Time Magazine's self-proclaimed "raging moderate" Joe Klein pans Jonah Goldberg's latest book in the New York Times. Goldberg responds point by point, in withering ...
5/21/2012 3:25 PM ET
Times reporter Michael Shear rips into Drudge, Breitbart for reporting news: "But the issues of race and religion never go completely away, at least in some extreme quarters of the American ...
5/21/2012 2:25 PM ET
What happened between Thursday and Sunday that cause the Occupy protest movement to disappear from the Times' radar? The Times on Thursday, before violence at the NATO summit in Chicago: ...
