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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5/18/2011 11:08 AM ET
Times reporter Matt Bai: "Is there a racial element to some of the attacks on President Obama? It's pretty hard to argue there isn't....race and cultural otherness were powerful undercurrents in ...
5/17/2011 12:50 PM ET
And Iraqis thought they had it bad under Saddam Hussein: "Baghdad has weathered invasion, occupation, sectarian warfare and suicide bombers. But now it faces a new scourge: tastelessness." Back in ...
5/17/2011 10:53 AM ET
Former reporter Timothy Egan's takes an objective stance on Paul Ryan's Medicare plan: "Could you divide the country between greedy geezers and everyone else as a way to radically alter the social ...
5/16/2011 3:05 PM ET
Sheryl Gay Stolberg penned a story on the marital woes of presidential candidates that vaguely mentions Bill Clinton and ignores John Edwards, yet went into detail on the difficulties of ...
5/16/2011 1:31 PM ET
The paper's slanted Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike profiles one of the paper's favorite Republicans, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana: "A Rhodes scholar and a former Navy officer, Mr. Lugar has ...
5/13/2011 3:30 PM ET
Double standards: Left-wing billionaire George Soros, nonpartisan? A Times photo caption reads "David H. Koch, top, has given generously to a libertarian group, and George Soros has donated ...
5/13/2011 2:18 PM ET
Also, Matt Bai reveals his political sympathies in separate profiles of Mario Cuomo and Newt Gingrich, the Times suggests it's "ugly" to celebrate the death of a mass terrorist, and meet the new ...
5/13/2011 2:08 PM ET
Also, Matt Bai makes his political sympathies in profiles of Newt Gingrich and Mario Cuomo, and a headline suggests it's "ugly" to celebrate the death of a mass terrorist.
5/12/2011 1:26 PM ET
Reporter Abby Goodnough sympathetically relays unfiltered anti-war, anti-corporate leftism from Burlington, Vermont over a clean energy proposal by Lockheed Martin. "'I'm deathly afraid of ...
5/12/2011 11:00 AM ET
Double standard: Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein treats liberal Catholics with respect as they attack Speaker John Boehner on the eve of his speech at the Catholic University of America: ...
5/12/2011 12:04 AM ET
"At night in the family residence, an adviser said, Mr. Obama often surfs the blogs of experts on Arab affairs or regional news sites to get a local flavor for events. He has sounded out prominent ...
5/11/2011 1:53 PM ET
Times political reporter Matt Bai on Newt: "Whatever can Newt Gingrich be thinking?...I mean, let's be unsparing about this: Mr. Gingrich has never been elected to anything outside his old ...
5/11/2011 12:52 PM ET
While ABC questioned Obama's facts, Times reporter Jackie Calmes offered no challenges: "President Obama came to this border city on Tuesday to argue that he is doing his part to crack down on ...
5/10/2011 2:32 PM ET
The Times can't get enough of House Speaker John Boehner coming to the aid of a Republican in a special election allegedly tightening due to the G.O.P.'s controversial Medicare plan. But actual ...
5/10/2011 12:47 PM ET
Adam Nagourney on California Gov. Jerry Brown: "[He] proceeded to answer the reporters' questions with a display of self-confident humor and a command of facts, history and language that befits a ...
5/9/2011 4:19 PM ET
Reporter John Branch praises the "unafraid" New York Rangers hockey star Sean Avery for cutting a clip in support of gay marriage in New York State. But athletes with conservative messages were ...
5/9/2011 2:35 PM ET
Reporter Carl Hulse somehow finds Democratic advantage in rising gas prices and the exploding deficit: "Senior Democrats believe that tying [high gas prices and rising deficits] will put pressure ...
5/6/2011 2:25 PM ET
The headline over Benedict Carey's NY Times story: "Celebrating a Death: Ugly, Maybe, but Only Human." Carey wrote: "Some Americans celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden loudly, with chanting ...
5/6/2011 12:33 PM ET
The headline over Benedict Carey's story: "Celebrating a Death: Ugly, Maybe, but Only Human." Carey writes: "Some Americans celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden loudly, with chanting and ...
5/6/2011 11:44 AM ET
The Times, always hypersensitive to potential Republican electoral troubles, used Friday's front page to push Democratic prospects for a special election in the suburbs of Buffalo, what the Times ...
