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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5/20/2010 10:39 AM ET
Democrat Mark Critz's victory to fill the House seat of late Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha merited a front-page story analysis on Thursday by congressional reporter Carl Hulse: "House Victory ...
5/19/2010 1:08 PM ET
Economics writer David Leonhardt gets a little melodramatic: "Someday, we will probably look back on our gallon-a-week soda habit the way we now look back on allowing children to ride without seat ...
5/19/2010 12:04 PM ET
Tax-hiking columnist Thomas Friedman took issue with conservatives who claim the massive BP oil spill is Obama's Katrina. According to Friedman, it's actually Obama's 9-11.
5/19/2010 11:35 AM ET
Where's the contradiction? The Times' Damien Cave looks at the Times polling on Arizona's immigration law and divides people into young idealists opposed to it and old baby boomers supporting it: ...
5/19/2010 9:49 AM ET
The Times' didn't mention the Democratic affiliation of controversy-plagued Connecticut Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal until paragraph three of its expose. By ...
5/18/2010 4:57 PM ET
After writing in January about a pro-amnesty protest involving a grand total of four student marchers, NYT reporter Julia Preston followed up with "an escalation of protest tactics" at Sen. John ...
5/18/2010 11:31 AM ET
After writing up a pro-amnesty protest involving a grand total of four student marchers in January, reporter Julia Preston followed up with "an escalation of protest tactics" at Sen. John McCain's ...
5/18/2010 9:57 AM ET
Columnist Krugman sees a welcome change: "News organizations have taken notice: suddenly, the takeover of the Republican Party by right-wing extremists has become a story."
5/18/2010 8:18 AM ET
"President Obama on Friday angrily assailed the finger-pointing among the three companies involved in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a 'ridiculous spectacle,' even as his own ...
5/17/2010 1:38 PM ET
Business writer/book reviewer Harry Hurt III summarizes a gushing new autobiography of Obama by Newsweek's "moderately liberal" Jonathan Alter: "Barack Obama demonstrated his economic prowess at ...
5/17/2010 11:20 AM ET
The Times placed left-of-center Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the middle, but found angry conservative uprising in this pecular passage: "It may be a measure of the electorate's angry mood that ...
5/17/2010 8:13 AM ET
Columnist Charles Blow laments that each day is "bringing more news of unconscionable conservative tilts in the electorate" but rallies the leftist troops with a reworking of an positivity slogan: ...
5/14/2010 2:21 PM ET
Liberal Supreme Court pick Elena Kagan not politically correct enough for the Times? "The administration has been pushing back against any suggestion that Ms. Kagan has been insensitive on racial ...
5/14/2010 2:08 PM ET
A long front-page article about how some jobs aren't coming back doesn't even mention Obama's name. Did the Times cover unemployment under Reagan and Bush in similar fashion? Hardly.
5/14/2010 10:11 AM ET
Times' politics-obsessed movie critic A.O. Scott finds parallels between the "manly libertarian rebel" that is the hero of "Robin Hood" and the Tea Party movement. Scott also again rides to how ...
5/13/2010 3:53 PM ET
So even the Bush administration knew they had "gone too far" in deregulation? That's according to Times reporter Eric Lipton, who doesn't sound very fair and balanced here: "The push for some of ...
5/13/2010 12:41 PM ET
Where did that come from? "But Republicans be warned: Florida is a place of big dreams and big guffaws. Democrats (Gary Hart) and Republicans (Rush Limbaugh) have both drowned in scandal here..."
5/13/2010 12:09 PM ET
The Times runs a front page story alleging racial discrimination by the NYPD with research solely from an unlabeled hard-left Center for Constitutional Rights, who represents defendants at ...
5/12/2010 1:43 PM ET
Editor-turned-columnist Gail Collins has a long history of adoring Sanger: "For the Lower East Side there are so many potential subjects that it might be better to commandeer an entire city park ...
5/12/2010 1:04 PM ET
Huh? Leonhardt blames Tea Partiers for not being serious about cutting spending: "Just last weekend, Tea Party members helped deny Senator Robert Bennett, the Utah Republican, his party's ...
