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
6/21/2011 5:21 PM ET
3,000 words on Sunday's New York Times front page about alleged ethical questions surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas add up to...not much: "The project throws a spotlight on an unusual, and ...
6/21/2011 3:53 PM ET
When it comes to gay issues, the Times tossing away journalism in favor of frothy anecdotes like Shaila Dewan's unjournalistic celebration of the possible legalization on the possible imminent ...
6/21/2011 3:36 PM ET
3,000 words on Sunday's front page about alleged ethical questions surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas add up to...not much: "The project throws a spotlight on an unusual, and ethically sensitive, ...
6/21/2011 3:25 PM ET
Catherine Rampell defends extra federal spending on unemployment benefits on the front page: "One word, just one little word. That's all that Frank Ballesteros, a 62-year-old desperate for work, ...
6/20/2011 9:47 PM ET
Executive Editor Bill Keller: "If the 2012 election were held in the newsrooms of America and pitted Sarah Palin against Barack Obama, I doubt Palin would get 10 percent of the vote. However ...
6/20/2011 5:16 PM ET
"If the 2012 election were held in the newsrooms of America and pitted Sarah Palin against Barack Obama, I doubt Palin would get 10 percent of the vote. However tempting the newsworthy havoc of a ...
6/20/2011 1:49 PM ET
Jeff Zeleny: "The references to Mr. Romney's own unemployment status added yet another humorous, but occasionally awkward, moment to his ever-growing catalog of off-the-cuff remarks that he makes ...
6/15/2011 11:57 AM ET
Kate Zernike on Anthony Weiner, victim of Washington "puritanism"? "But technology keeps adding new and in many ways more seductive temptations to the mix. And this is happening at a time when, ...
6/15/2011 10:40 AM ET
Movie critic John Anderson exculpates a convicted domestic terrorist of the Earth Liberation Front: "Some would call Mr. McGowan overeager. The government calls him a terrorist....[Daniel] McGowan ...
6/14/2011 2:35 PM ET
Manohla Dargis's latest movie "spoiler" - another cri de couer about the lack of women on screen in summer movies: "Is there a lesson here for those big-studio executives who even now are reading ...
6/14/2011 1:43 PM ET
The paper's new op-ed columnist defends consumer crusader, bankruptcy expert, and liberal heroine Elizabeth Warren from Republican harassment of women: "It's official: Elizabeth Warren will return ...
6/13/2011 3:36 PM ET
Jim Rutenberg and William Yardley damn the former Alaska governor with faint praise: "She was also, in the years before her national emergence, more open to compromise and political dealing than ...
6/13/2011 2:58 PM ET
Michael Shear sounds bitter and mad at having to talk about Anthony Weiner: "Lots of policy and we're going to start with the sex scandal!" What did he write about the next two days? Sarah Palin's ...
6/10/2011 2:50 PM ET
"But for the increasingly intolerant minority who will decide the next Republican nominee, Huntsman is already a heretic for speaking common sense on climate change, gay civil unions and ...
6/10/2011 12:54 PM ET
Plus, Matt Bai deals two anti-GOP race cards and comes up a joker; tornadoes as economic stimulus; Anita Hill as role model for France; and columnist David Brooks falls victim to the damp squid.
6/10/2011 12:46 PM ET
Plus Matt Bai deals two anti-Republican race cards that turn out to be jokers; tornadoes as economic stimulus; Anita Hill as role model for France.
6/9/2011 3:46 PM ET
News that Alaska would release a trove of Sarah Palin e-mails from her tenure as governor spurred the Times to look to its liberal readership for help digging up dirt: "We're asking readers to ...
6/9/2011 1:54 PM ET
Jeff Zeleny on Washington Week in Review has some doubts about the campaign finance prosecution of John Edwards: "And of course, it's not ended very well for him and it's a tragedy all the way ...
6/8/2011 4:24 PM ET
Thomas Friedman, who lives in a mansion, calls for people to own less: "We will realize, [environmentalist Paul Gilding] predicts, that the consumer-driven growth model is broken and we have to ...
6/8/2011 2:23 PM ET
An anonymous Times editor compares Abramson's management style to notoriously alienating former executive editor Howell Raines. Plus, speculation on Jill Abramson's choice for Washington bureau ...
