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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12/1/2009 11:09 AM ET
A Swiss vote banning new construction of minarets (the prayer towers for Muslim mosques) has "undermined the country's reputation for religious tolerance." Will the Times ever tackle the lack of ...
12/1/2009 10:27 AM ET
The lead sentence of Timothy Williams' report from Baghdad: "More than six and a half years after the United States-led invasion here that many believed was about oil..."
11/30/2009 5:32 PM ET
The Honduran congress, wary of dictators in a region heavy with them, unanimously declared Hugo Chavez-mimicking president Manuel Zelaya's push for a second term unconstitutional. But the Times ...
11/30/2009 5:02 PM ET
The Times celebrates Obama's first state dinner as if there's never been one before (certainly not one under boring Bush): "President Obama and his wife, Michelle, made sure to infuse the ...
11/30/2009 5:00 PM ET
"Food Stamp Use Soars Across U.S., and Stigma Fades," cheers a Times headline over Sunday's big lead story, cowritten by fierce welfare reform opponent (and Times reporter) Jason DeParle, who ...
11/24/2009 5:28 AM ET
Times writers have deep thoughts on chocolate bars and Thanksgiving turkey.
11/23/2009 5:01 PM ET
NY Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin on the trove of damning emails swiped from climate scientists: "The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private ...
11/23/2009 2:34 PM ET
Yawn. The Republican party is coming apart at the seams, once again, says Times editor Richard Stevenson: "But even as conservatives exult in Mr. Obama's declining job approval ratings, the drive ...
11/23/2009 12:26 PM ET
In his hit piece on the former governor's hit book, columnist Rich argues that "Palin is at the red-hot center of age-old American resentments that have boiled up both from the ascent of our first ...
11/23/2009 9:35 AM ET
Democrats love a Times' lead story suggesting most economists think the stimulus is working - and that we also need another one.
11/23/2009 9:24 AM ET
Conservative anger: Don't leave home without it! "They brought their sleeping bags, their children, homemade chocolate Cheerios bars, and balloons to twist into animal shapes and hats for the ...
11/23/2009 6:35 AM ET
Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin on the trove of damning emails swiped from climate scientists: "The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private ...
11/20/2009 2:37 PM ET
Health care reporter Kevin Sack on outcry against recommendations that women under 50 no longer get mammograms: "This week, the science of medicine bumped up against the foundations of American ...
11/20/2009 2:19 PM ET
Colin Moynihan writes of radical lawyer Lynne Stewart's "long record of representing the disadvantaged, the destitute and the despised." She was convicted of aiding a Muslim terrorist. Last year, ...
11/20/2009 12:27 PM ET
Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney saw reasons for GOP optimism at a governors' conference, but some copy editor and photo caption writers effectively buried that part of his story.
11/19/2009 3:32 PM ET
From reporter John Broder's unflattering profile of U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue, who stands in the way of massive restrictions in the name of fighting global warming: "A wave ...
11/19/2009 1:08 PM ET
Helene Cooper has the Times mantra down pat, repeating the same charge she wrote about on Monday: Conservative bloggers made a controversy out of Obama's long, deep bow to the emperor of Japan a ...
11/19/2009 11:56 AM ET
A Times promotional email to professors reads: "To begin, please email me with a copy of your syllabus listing the New York Times as required reading."
11/19/2009 9:22 AM ET
Young Times reporter Jodi Kantor has signed "a stunning seven-figure book deal" about Obama, less than a month after her flattering piece on the First Couple appeared on the cover of the Times ...
11/18/2009 2:39 PM ET
Diplomatic reporter Helene Cooper applied some spin to Barack Obama's hamstrung visit to Beijing.
