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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7/27/2011 7:39 PM ET
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman: "If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the G.O.P. on a suicide mission."
7/27/2011 2:27 PM ET
David Leonhardt pens his last economics column before becoming Washington bureau chief, and encapsulates his liberal conventional wisdom: "We know that the federal government has promised more ...
7/27/2011 1:37 PM ET
Thomas Friedman: "[The Tea Party] is so lacking in any aspiration for American greatness, so dominated by the narrowest visions for our country and so ignorant of the fact that it was not tax cuts ...
7/27/2011 12:56 PM ET
The last two Times lead stories on the debt ceiling debate have featured 11 "conservative" labels and zero "liberal" ones.
7/26/2011 3:20 PM ET
Jackie Calmes and Carl Hulse find lots of "conservatives" but zero liberals in their lead story Tuesday.
7/26/2011 2:55 PM ET
"Recession Study Finds Hispanics Are Hit Hardest Sharp Wealth Decline - Group's Median Level Fell 66% in 4 Years Blacks Hit, Too." But why were Asians left out of the headline? Their median ...
7/26/2011 1:03 PM ET
Columnist Nicholas Kristof: "Well, wake up to the national security threat. Only it's not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists....the biggest threat to America's national ...
7/26/2011 12:39 PM ET
Mark Bittman: "That 'other force' should be the federal government, fulfilling its role as an agent of the public good and establishing a bold national fix....public health is the role of the ...
7/25/2011 3:06 PM ET
Roger Cohen smears Sarah Palin, shows his ignorance: "When Jared Loughner shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords this year in Tuscon [sic], Arizona - after Sarah Palin placed rifle sights over ...
7/25/2011 11:56 AM ET
Scott Shane: "...the mass killings in Norway, with their echo of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by an antigovernment militant, have focused new attention around the ...
7/25/2011 11:06 AM ET
While the Times showed no reluctance to identify the lone gunman in the Norway attacks as a "Christian extremist" in a front-page headline and hinted at more danger from "right-wing extremists" in ...
7/22/2011 4:27 PM ET
David Leonhardt, the New York Times' chief economics writer, has insisted on "the upside of paying more taxes' and has twice claimed big-spending Obama was in fact a "fiscal conservative." Three ...
7/22/2011 12:56 PM ET
Leonhardt, the Times' chief economics writer, has insisted on "the upside of paying more taxes' and has twice claimed the big-spending Obama was in fact a "fiscal conservative." Three months ago ...
7/22/2011 12:16 PM ET
Art critic Holland Cotter found Soviet-style tyranny in the free market: "Free-market capitalism brought its suppressions and exclusions, as artists discovered. Among other things, some felt, it ...
7/21/2011 1:08 PM ET
Reporter Brian Stelter doesn't tip his readers off on the far-left background of the Murdoch attackers at Free Press, or its funding by George Soros: "But media reform groups like Free Press, ...
7/20/2011 2:16 PM ET
Here we go again; David Leonhardt praises Obama the "fiscal conservative." "He takes on the moderate role of fiscal conservative, looking to cut spending and increase taxes on the affluent."
7/20/2011 1:46 PM ET
Jackie Calmes and Jennifer Steinhauer celebrate a "four-page outline" from a group of senators as a victory for Obama: "Financial markets rallied on the news. And with time running out before the ...
7/20/2011 12:34 PM ET
Times leads the way with its Bachmann "migraine" coverage, linking migraines to depression and other electorally damaging ailments: "Migraines are three times more common among women than men, the ...
7/19/2011 4:36 PM ET
NY Times White House reporter Mark Landler takes sides, shares Obama's frustration with GOP: "And I think the frustration the president has, is, 'Look, I've come three-quarters the way to your ...
7/19/2011 1:35 PM ET
White House reporter Mark Landler takes sides, shares the president's frustration with Republicans: "And I think the frustration the president has, is, 'Look, I've come three-quarters the way to ...
