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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2/6/2012 12:00 PM ET
Douthat: "From the nightly news shows to print and online media, the coverage's tone alternated between wonder and outrage - wonder that anyone could possibly find Planned Parenthood even remotely ...
2/3/2012 5:08 PM ET
Friday's lead story celebrated the social media outcry among "the growing number of people online, mostly women, who decried what they view as the politicization of women's health care," which ...
2/3/2012 3:26 PM ET
More Texas liberalism in the "news" section: "The hypothesis here - and an election is a fast way to test it - is that even conservatives want government to function. Maybe they don't like the ...
2/3/2012 2:16 PM ET
Suddenly it's not courageous to disagree with the leaders of your religion: "Romney's Tough Immigration View Is at Odds With His Church." Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein even showed respect for ...
2/2/2012 4:13 PM ET
Jennifer Medina sympathetically covers the plight of California immigrants who were fired for failing to come up with proof of legal residence, but fails to ask the obvious question: Were they in ...
2/2/2012 3:34 PM ET
Reporters Gardiner Harris and Pam Belluck claim that "Only a small percentage of Planned Parenthood's expenditures go toward abortion services." Yet the Times also admitted PP was "the nation's ...
2/2/2012 2:56 PM ET
Times reporter Ashley Parker, on the Romney campaign trail, used an
out-of-context remark by Mitt Romney to rehash Romney’s list of rich-guy
campaign gaffes.
2/2/2012 2:12 PM ET
Well, it's slightly better than "greedy titan," which is the insult Times reporters relayed in January.
2/1/2012 3:19 PM ET
The Times online has "Room for Debate" to mock some religions, including Mormonism: "I wouldn't buy the underwear just yet....[the Mormon Church] has used its mobilizing genius to pursue political ...
2/1/2012 1:24 PM ET
The Times sees in Romney "a willingness to descend into the muck and run a relentlessly negative campaign....Mr. Romney has never been especially squeamish about negative campaigning. As jarring ...
1/31/2012 5:03 PM ET
Did the Times learn nothing about rushing to judgement from its Duke lacrosse "rape" hoax debacle? Even as the case fell apart, the Times issued a now-notorious, error-riddled 5,000-word story ...
1/31/2012 3:12 PM ET
Breaking with standard Times practice when liberal activists challenge conservative rule changes, reporter Denise Grady gave far more news space to supporters of the change wrought by Obama, ...
1/31/2012 2:03 PM ET
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman forwards Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's insulting the "idiocy and ignorance" of Republican candidates, adding "When Marxists are complaining that your ...
1/30/2012 5:09 PM ET
Reporter Emily Ramshaw sympathizes with abortion clinic owners about new Texas laws requiring state abortion clinics to show a mother seeking an abortion a sonogram of her baby - or as Ramshaw ...
1/30/2012 4:12 PM ET
Mark Landler gushed: "In a delicious coincidence for the White House, the author is Robert Kagan, a neoconservative historian and commentator who advises Mr. Romney." Landler also used commentator ...
1/30/2012 3:43 PM ET
Columnist Thomas Friedman forwards Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's insulting the "idiocy and ignorance" of Republican candidates, adding "When Marxists are complaining that your party's candidates ...
1/27/2012 4:23 PM ET
Helene Cooper: "While it is difficult to judge whether the moment will have any lasting impact, Hispanic leaders said that what is being dubbed by some as the 'dustup in the desert' could play in ...
1/27/2012 3:41 PM ET
Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "Mr. Gingrich, Democrats and Republicans here agree, emerged as one of Washington's most aggressive practitioners of slash-and-burn politics; many fault him for erasing ...
1/27/2012 10:00 AM ET
Plus: An editor calls Speaker John Boehner racist for asking President Obama to postpone his address to Congress for one night.
1/27/2012 9:55 AM ET
Plus: Speaker John Boehner was racist for asking Obama to postpone a speech to Congress for one night.
