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
12/17/2009 5:05 PM ET
Rachel Swarns continues to adore the first lady and her pet causes, filing two celebratory nytimes.com pieces, one calling Michelle Obama Santa Claus, the other celebrating the White House's ...
12/17/2009 3:24 PM ET
What do journalists talk about at holiday parties? Obama's great speeches and the atrocity of Sarah Palin and Joe Lieberman, according to columnist David Brooks.
12/16/2009 9:52 AM ET
We've compiled the absolutely most biased quotes that appeared in the Times in 2009, and picked the "winners" for the Times Quote of the Year.
12/15/2009 4:01 PM ET
During his tenure with the Times, Revkin stayed well within the bounds of liberal conventional wisdom on environmental issues like global warming and population. Today, we send him off with a song.
12/15/2009 3:30 PM ET
At last, something relevant is being taught in college: "Sidney Plotkin, a professor of political science at Vassar College...began a new section of the course by exploring the housing bubble and ...
12/15/2009 3:13 PM ET
David Herszenhorn sees Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's outsized Democratic majority as "a chain around Mr. Reid's neck..."
12/15/2009 1:48 PM ET
And you thought "Up in the Air" was just holiday entertainment. Frank Rich tells us it's actually "using the power of pop culture to salve national wounds that continue to fester in the real world."
12/15/2009 1:00 PM ET
Lieberman's opposition to a Medicare buy-in proposal and single-payer has frustrated Democrats (and Times reporters).
12/14/2009 6:04 PM ET
Let no one say the New York Times is blind to media bias. It's uncovered it at the (conservative) New York Post and (conservative) Fox News - although admissions of the paper's own clear liberal ...
12/14/2009 4:26 PM ET
Movie reviewer Manohla Dargis demands more female directors and asks about the lack of same: "Feeling queasy yet? Resigned? Indifferent? A little angry?" Um, not yet.
12/14/2009 1:24 PM ET
It wouldn't be an enviro-scare story on climate change without a tasteless comparison to the 9-11 attacks: "Glaciers are part of the majestic landscape here, visible from almost everywhere in the ...
12/14/2009 12:48 PM ET
Hmmm. Evidently Obama-care is no longer a big news story at the Times. What other explanation could there be?
12/14/2009 11:36 AM ET
John McCain goes after Obama's policies, and reporter Adam Nagourney does not sound happy: "If Mr. McCain has had a history of being a happy warrior, that is not the phrase used by many of his ...
12/14/2009 7:12 AM ET
Let no one say the Times is blind to media bias. It's uncovered it at the (conservative) New York Post and (conservative) Fox News, though admissions of the paper's own clear liberal tilt are few ...
12/11/2009 10:49 AM ET
The return of the pragmatic big-spending liberal, Barack Obama, at the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Norway.
12/11/2009 10:38 AM ET
A week after downplaying "non-religious Christmas" plans at the White House, the Times suggests complaints about the White House's downsized Hanukkah celebration are overdone.
12/11/2009 10:37 AM ET
Martha Coakley will probably succeed Ted Kennedy as senator of Massachusetts, and the Times called attention to her speaking ability and composure, but not the part she played in justifying the ...
12/10/2009 4:05 PM ET
Tom Zeller Jr. stumbles upon some Copenhagen contrarians and treats them with some respect.
12/10/2009 3:03 PM ET
Sarah Lyall reacts badly to spending cuts in Dublin. Confiscatory tax hikes are far more palatable to the Times' liberal world view.
12/10/2009 2:27 PM ET
Jackie Calmes: "The president's pique at Republicans was evident before Wednesday's meeting, after 10 months in which they have opposed all of his major initiatives to address the problems he ...
