Clay Waters

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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NYT AWOL on Latest 'Climate Change' Revelations

Notorious climate scientist Phil Jones confessed that world temperatures could well have been warmer in the past than they are today, and also admitted there has been no statistically significant ...

The NY Times Goes AWOL on Latest 'Climate Change' Revelations

Notorious climate scientist Phil Jones recently confessed there has been no global warming since 1995. The Times has skipped that revelation, instead featuring columnist Thomas Friedman renaming ...

Nagourney Thinks GOP Will Fall Short of Previously Impossible Dream: Senate Takeover

You don't say: "G.O.P. Dream of Gaining Senate Control Faces Significant Hurdles," reads Adam Nagourney's latest political memo. But just two months ago no one was even talking about such a thing. ...

Where Is McCain's Apology? NYT Lead Pushes Obama to Break No-Tax Hike Pledge

The Times fiercely attacked Republicans during the 2008 campaign for daring to suggest Obama might raise taxes on people making under $250,000 a year. Today, reporter Jackie Calmes encourages him ...

NY Times Goes to Idaho to Explore Paranoid Tea Party Movement

New York Times investigative reporter David Barstow goes to Idaho to understand the paranoia of the Tea Party movement, and brings up past anti-government and racist extremists in a 4,500-word ...

'Weird' Tea Party Conventioneers: More Anger Than Answers

Tea Party convention-goers have a lot of anger, they don't have a lot of answers, according to reporter Kate Zernike on a nytimes.com podcast.

Darn That 'Unyielding Partisanship' Making 'Centrist' Dem Evan Bayh Retire

Reporter Adam Nagourney nodded along to the Democratic-friendly idea that "centrist" Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh's retirement was about "unyielding partisanship" in Congress, not the grim prospects ...

Beware the Tea Party Movement!

Investigative reporter David Barstow goes to Idaho to understand the paranoia of the Tea Party movement, and brings up past anti-government and racist extremists in a 4,500-word front-page ...

Soda = Big Tobacco, According to No-Fun NYT Food Writer Mark Bittman

In addition some copy editor at the Times has a puritanical relationship with snacks: To help dam the river of sugared drinks that Americans pour into ever-fatter bodies each year, some suggest a ...

Obama Loves Attorney General Eric Holder, and So Does the Times

Obama hearts the "low-key" "genial," "self-deprecating," and of course "pragmatic" Attorney General Eric Holder, in a long profile of Holder that fails to mention his Justice Department's refusal ...

Boy, Those 'Far Right' Texas Candidates Sure Are 'Hard-Line' and 'Divisive'

Reporter James McKinley Jr. wonders if the Republican candidates for Texas governor can get any more right wing than they already are: "Some days it is hard to be a neophyte far-right candidate in ...

NYT Shows Obama's Favorability, Approval Plummeting, Yet Stresses 'Edge Over G.O.P. With Public'

Give the New York Times points for nerve: Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney managed to change the subject, taking the paper's poll, full of bad news for President Obama and Democrats, and ...

NYT Poll Shows Obama's Favorability, Approval Plummeting, Stresses 'Edge Over G.O.P. With Public' Instead

Give the Times points for nerve: Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney managed to take the paper's new poll, full of bad news for President Obama and Democrats, and twist its findings to suggest ...

NYT's John Broder Calls Climate Change Skeptics 'Deniers,' Some Are 'Relatively Uninformed'

New York Times reporter John Broder discussed his front-page climate change story in a nytimes.com podcast: "Well, naturally the skeptics and those who are, you know, relatively uninformed about ...

'Clueless' Obama's Lost Krugman: 'We're Doomed'

Liberal columnist Paul Krugman reads Obama's interview with Business Week involving big bonuses for Wall Street CEOs and asks, "how is it possible, at this late date, for Obama to be this clueless?"

Taking Sides: Broder Calls Climate Change Skeptics 'Deniers,' Some Are 'Relatively Uninformed'

Reporter John Broder talks about his front-page climate change story in a nytimes.com podcast: "Well, naturally the skeptics and those who are, you know, relatively uninformed about the climate ...

Times Lauds Left-Wing Radical as 'Civil Rights Lawyer'

Ralph Fertig runs a left-wing pressure group, but to Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak he's just a "civil rights lawyer," and his wish to provide legal support to a Kurdish group in Turkey ...

Anti-Welfare Reform Reporter Jason DeParle's 2nd Victory Lap: Food Stamp 'Stigma' Still Fading!

In 1996, reporter Jason DeParle accused Clinton of signing a welfare reform bill that "begrudges poor infants their Pampers" and predicted an epidemic of child abuse, abortion, prostitution and ...

NY Times Tackles Latest Accusations of Bad Climate Science

Newspaper says nothing here but 'half-truths' from 'right-leaning' skeptics.

Editorial Page That Harps on 'Grave Threat' of Climate Change Accuses GOP of Fearmongering Terrorism

A Times editorial hypocritically accuses the GOP of fear-mongering the terror threat. What exactly does the Times think it's been saying about climate change for the last several years?