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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1/6/2012 5:11 PM ET
Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal, prodded by criticism from The O'Reilly Factor, posted an update to his post offensively accusing House Speaker John Boehner of racism for asking Obama to ...
1/6/2012 1:55 PM ET
Shaila Dewan sees a "head of steam" for Obama in the latest 8.5% unemployment figure, enough "to cheer President Obama as he enters an election year." Does this mean Dewan will no longer ask, as ...
1/6/2012 11:56 AM ET
Helene Cooper yawns over Obama's dubious and possibly unconstitutional "recess" appointments while suggesting the administration has the Republicans just where they want them as Campaign 2012 ...
1/6/2012 11:33 AM ET
Reporter Nicholas Kulish forwards Al Gore's discredited global warming threats to polar bears: "Knut arrived on the scene at a moment when global warming was a growing topic, born the same year ...
1/5/2012 4:33 PM ET
The New York Times used the word "conservative" 12 times in a campaign story from New Hampshire, but in 2008 reporter Michael Powell called Michael Dukakis a "pragmatist" and ultra-liberal ...
1/5/2012 3:44 PM ET
Talk about the 1% Percent! Even as the Times is freezing pensions for foreign citizen employees in overseas bureaus, it granted a $15 million golden parachute to former chief executive Janet ...
1/5/2012 2:02 PM ET
The Times used the word "conservative" 12 times in a campaign story from New Hampshire, but in 2008 reporter Michael Powell called Michael Dukakis a "pragmatist" and ultra-liberal politicians John ...
1/5/2012 12:57 PM ET
Jason DeParle: "...the evidence suggests that America is not only less equal, but also less mobile....The United States maintains a thinner safety net than other rich countries, leaving more ...
1/4/2012 5:32 PM ET
A new low for Times editor Andrew Rosenthal: "There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks leveled against President Obama for the last three years, and in this dawning ...
1/4/2012 4:00 PM ET
Jan Hoffman: "The messages, rendered in teenspeak, can be funny and blunt: for Real Talk, a technology-driven H.I.V. prevention program run by the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York, teenagers ...
1/4/2012 2:19 PM ET
A new low for Andrew Rosenthal: "Talking about race in American politics is uncomfortable and awkward. But it has to be said: There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks ...
1/4/2012 12:52 PM ET
Double standards on leaks of sensitive information at the Times. The paper eagerly splashed diplomatic secrets stolen by Wikileaks on the front page, but claimed that releasing the "Climate-gate" ...
1/3/2012 4:23 PM ET
Yet another Times reporter, Mark Landler, celebrates Obama's "oratorical gifts," but in a story on how Obama's surrogates are the ones making "striking" speeches in support of gay rights, which ...
1/3/2012 3:47 PM ET
In a story about Mitt Romney, reporter Ashley Parker sounds wistful over Obama's 2008 Iowa campaign oratory: "But Mr. Romney is also using the patriotic songs to try to elevate his own political ...
1/3/2012 3:33 PM ET
A sportswriter goes political: "[LeBron] James sounded callous - a 1 percenter reminding the 99 percent that he was impervious to their taunts."
12/30/2011 1:33 PM ET
Welcome to the 2011 edition of the worst quotes from the New York Times this year, in three categories: "Occupy Wall Street's 'Athenian Democracy' vs. Tea Party 'Terrorists'"; "Blaming ...
12/30/2011 11:58 AM ET
Newt Gingrich is "among the more divisive political figures of recent decade" and always threatens to become "Nasty Newt." Yet former vice president Al Gore was a "compelling" "pop culture icon."
12/28/2011 4:50 PM ET
"When Mitt Romney introduces himself to voters, he has a peculiar habit of guessing their age or nationality, often incorrectly." More of Romney as robot: The Times feels the need to spell out ...
12/28/2011 4:01 PM ET
Reporter Jeremy Peters is seeing things: "The 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign used billboards with faint images of crosses. And at the Republican National Convention that year, the lecterns on stage ...
12/27/2011 7:43 PM ET
An environmental scientist eviscerates Justin Gillis's front-page article in the New York Times on extreme weather events and global warming as "perhaps the worst piece of reporting I've ever seen ...
