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
4/9/2012 1:39 PM ET
New York Times welfare reporter Jason DeParle clearly considers his
previous doomsaying reporting on welfare reform vindicated in his latest
2,700-word lead story on Sunday, "Welfare
Limits ...
4/6/2012 11:44 AM ET
On Good Friday, Times Rome bureau chief Rachel Donadio called Pope Benedict by his harsh nickname "God's Rottweiler" and brought up extraneous problems in the Church: "...it was one
of the ...
4/6/2012 7:51 AM ET
Sorry, Masters golf tournament, you don't meet the exacting standards of
feminist activist/golf writer Karen Crouse. The New York Times reporter
is not done with her crusade against Augusta ...
4/5/2012 12:38 PM ET
The New York Times is again trying to gin up a controversy over the
men-only status of Augusta National Golf Club, host of The Masters golf
tournament, after embarrassing itself over the issue ...
4/5/2012 10:18 AM ET
No "embarrassment" here: Former New York Times Supreme Court reporter
Linda Greenhouse, who called Obama-care opponents "simply
wrong" about the law's unconstitutionality right before the ...
4/5/2012 9:43 AM ET
Wishful thinking on behalf of Obama? New York Times White House reporter
Jackie Calmes fancies that criticizing the Supreme Court might be a
winning issue for Democrats for a change. Calmes ...
4/4/2012 1:37 PM ET
Times columnist Maureen Dowd is not happy with the Supreme Court's hostility toward Obama-care: "It is run by hacks dressed up in black
robes." She also accuses the court of stealing the ...
4/4/2012 12:08 PM ET
Times climate change reporter Justin Gillis, whose previous environmental reporting was nominated by an environmental scientist as perhaps "the worst ever" to appear in the Times, compares ...
4/3/2012 1:18 PM ET
Michael Powell informs us that secretly recording interviews with social-service organizations isn't investigative journalism, but "dirty tricks," at least when done by young conservatives: "This ...
4/3/2012 11:23 AM ET
Julia Preston, one of the Times's most reliably pro-amnesty reporters,
slid into Denver bureau chief Kirk Johnson's usual slot of using a news
story to promote a different kind of Western ...
4/3/2012 10:39 AM ET
Matt Bai, chief political correspondent for the New York Times
Magazine, delivered a 10,000-word epic cover story on last
summer's failed debt negotiations between President Barack Obama and ...
4/2/2012 11:43 PM ET
New York Times reporters Reed Abelson and Katie Thomas feared for the
consequences of a world without Obama-care on Saturday's front page: "A Health Law At Risk Gives Insurers Pause."
The ...
4/2/2012 1:52 PM ET
Reed Abelson and Katie Thomas tilt the soundbites 9-1 in favor of Obama-care supporters: "Abandoning the efforts and
billions of dollars invested since the law was passed in 2010 would
result ...
4/2/2012 12:20 PM ET
Times reporter Michael Schmidt: "Whether Occupy has a resurgence, it has already had a
significant influence on American politics, making economic inequality
-- and specifically the top “1 ...
4/2/2012 11:40 AM ET
Andrew Goldman didn't challenge "lefty dreamboat" Van Jones in a interview for the New York Times Sunday Magazine: "In your new book, 'Rebuild the Dream,' you discuss your 2009
resignation as ...
3/30/2012 12:51 PM ET
Another "weird weather" development means another front-page warning of climate change, based on sea ice, from New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis: "...suspicion is focused these ...
3/30/2012 9:45 AM ET
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes made a
surprise appearance in the arts pages to talk about
cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C. The unsurprising part: Yet another ...
3/29/2012 1:21 PM ET
Wait, aren't conservatives supposed to be the close-minded, ideologically intolerant ones? New York Times columnist Gail Collins: "I can’t believe this might be overturned.
How can this law not ...
3/29/2012 11:43 AM ET
Times columnist Gail Collins, agent of intolerance: "You would think all of this would
cause states to stop and rethink. But no. And, personally, I’m worn
down from arguing. Florida, follow ...
3/29/2012 11:23 AM ET
Helene Cooper imagines "divisions" within the Jewish community over attacking Iran's nuclear weapons program, using a left-wing Israeli organization the Times has desperately tried to built up as ...
