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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3/28/2011 10:49 AM ET
Ignoring fears of mission creep or questions about exit strategies, reporter Kirk Johnson dug up some novel excuses for the public's resistance to Obama's bombing campaign over Libya: Information ...
3/28/2011 10:12 AM ET
Executive Editor Bill Keller confessed his paper could be rightfully accused of a liberal outlook, though he managed to make this particular brand of urban cultural liberalism sound appealing: ...
3/25/2011 3:53 PM ET
In 2005, the Times published a four-panel picture on the front page that extended over two columns showing President Bush trying to exit a press conference in Beijing through a locked door...but ...
3/25/2011 2:08 PM ET
Ethan Bronner: "[Professor Shlomo Avineri] added that the extreme right in Israel had always insisted that criticism of Israeli policy was unpatriotic. Now, the extreme right has more power than ...
3/25/2011 1:25 PM ET
For Times obituary writer Bruce Weber, Communist Angela Davis is merely an "activist and educator," but the late conservative activist Paul Weyrich was "one of the far right's most unbending ...
3/24/2011 2:30 PM ET
Liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof, Libyan war-hawk: "This may be a first for the Arab world: An American airman who bailed out over Libya was rescued from his hiding place in a sheep pen by ...
3/23/2011 12:51 PM ET
Chief "Caucus" reporter Michael Shear's loaded language in defense of Obama-care: "A year after President Obama signed his health care law into effect, the two leading Republicans in Congress are ...
3/22/2011 1:55 PM ET
In a story about hazards to birds, the Times quotes a biologist who won't make many friends among cat-lovers: "They are like gypsy moths and kudzu - they cause major ecological disruption."
3/22/2011 1:13 PM ET
The Times looks askance when big food conglomerates fight government regulations on fatty foods - but a fight to feed "hungry" children in America (over 17 million of them?) fosters no ...
3/22/2011 10:36 AM ET
Andrea Elliott's worthwhile cover story on a conservative Muslim working against radicals contains some wild overstatement: "Muslims have grown up in a newly hostile country, with mounting ...
3/21/2011 4:34 PM ET
Obama, the savior of Latin America: "But Mr. Obama, on the second day of a five-day tour of Latin America, once again seemed to sidestep mentioning his own racial background in appearances here, ...
3/21/2011 4:23 PM ET
As missiles fell in Libya, New York Times reporter Michael Shear reported on another kind of shooting prowess: "Being president is an ego trip. So you would have thought President Obama wouldn't ...
3/21/2011 3:24 PM ET
Reporter David Halbfinger flatters Democratic Rep. Steve Israel as an "unassuming centrist" up to the task of winning back the House for the Democrats and lets Israel squeeze in some talking ...
3/21/2011 12:56 PM ET
Obama, the savior of Latin America: "But Mr. Obama, on the second day of a five-day tour of Latin America, once again seemed to sidestep mentioning his own racial background in appearances here, ...
3/21/2011 12:26 PM ET
As missiles fall in Libya, Michael Shear reports on another kind of shooting prowess: "Being president is an ego trip. So you would have thought President Obama wouldn't need to add to his ...
3/18/2011 1:19 PM ET
Jeremy Peters reports on his own paper: "No American news organization as large as The Times has tried to put its content behind a pay wall after allowing unrestricted access. The move is being ...
3/18/2011 12:54 PM ET
Michael Shear dismisses the NPR debate: "...the closer that Washington moves toward full-blown election season, the greater appetite both sides will have for small, symbolic issues that appeal to ...
3/18/2011 11:21 AM ET
The Times relaunches its Sunday magazine with a hagiographic profile of terrorist helper Lori Berenson in Peru. Plus Paul Krugman's persecution fantasies of Wisconsin, and why we won't miss ...
3/18/2011 11:14 AM ET
Plus: Paul Krugman's persecution fantasies of Wisconsin, and why we won't miss retiring columnist Frank Rich. And "Is Wisconsin the Tunisia of collective bargaining rights?"
3/17/2011 8:55 PM ET
In his farewell column, New York Times columnist Frank Rich admitted the job "can push you to have stronger opinions than you actually have, or contrived opinions about subjects you may not care ...
