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
11/18/2009 1:42 PM ET
The ongoing shortage of swine flu vaccine is not laid at the feet of the Obama White House: His name doesn't even appear in a story quoting "federal health officials" about the shortages. But with ...
11/18/2009 9:58 AM ET
but in an April column, Krugman compared Rush Limbaugh to Joseph Stalin.
11/17/2009 1:54 PM ET
An Agriculture Department study showing a rise in "food insecurity" becomes a "soaring" increase in U.S. "hunger" in the hands of excitable Times headline writers.
11/17/2009 1:03 PM ET
If Khalid Shaikh Mohammed really was "tortured by waterboarding 183 times" before he gave information, as a high-strung editorial claims, how awful could the procedure really be? But the Times' ...
11/17/2009 9:54 AM ET
Besides dismissing concerns over Obama's deep bow in Japan as attacks from "conservative American bloggers," reporters Helene Cooper and David Barboza see Obama making "progress" in getting Russia ...
11/16/2009 3:15 PM ET
Economist turned liberal-meme chasing columnist Paul Krugman wondered if Media Matters would get credit for bringing down CNN anchor Lou Dobbs "the way the ludicrous Powerline got lionized for ...
11/16/2009 2:30 PM ET
The Times former drama critic reluctantly suggests conservatives may have a point about political correctness making the Fort Hood massacre possible, but then goes into a muddled argument blaming ...
11/16/2009 12:54 PM ET
Reporter Kate Zernike, previously known for ardent defenses of failed presidential candidate John Kerry, finds that moderate Florida Republican Gov. Charlie Crist has become, as a front-page ...
11/16/2009 8:59 AM ET
In her rush to discredit Sarah Palin's memoir "Going Rogue," the Times' chief book critic Michiko Kakutani unwittingly stumbles into an anti-Obama argument.
11/13/2009 2:30 PM ET
In a surprise, the Times devotes a full editorial to the departure of outspoken CNN anchor Lou Dobbs: "He calls himself Mr. Independent, but he is far closer in style and method to the right-wing ...
11/13/2009 2:13 PM ET
An Army major espousing radical Islamic views has been charged with killing 13 at Fort Hood. But the Times' liberal columnists, so quick to blame Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck for previous ...
11/13/2009 12:53 PM ET
Read the latest edition of Times Watch Quotes of Note, including gems like this from Frank Rich: The same could be said of Beck, Palin and their acolytes. Though they constantly liken the ...
11/12/2009 3:38 PM ET
Western-based reporter Kirk Johnson has celebrated Utah's moderate Republican Jon Huntsman, now Obama's ambassador to China, and the repeal of Utah's antiquated liquor law. Now the easily excited ...
11/12/2009 2:38 PM ET
"Mr. Galbraith's influential view that Iraq should be broken up along ethnic lines is considered offensive to many Iraqis' nationalism. Mr. Biden and Mr. Kerry, who have been influenced by Mr. ...
11/12/2009 1:53 PM ET
The Times looks at Hasan's disturbing behavior and somehow finds a "mixed picture." And does the Times really find it unreasonable for Congress to demand someone take the blame for failing to stop ...
11/11/2009 3:37 PM ET
Ian Urbina focused not on the charges against Democratic Mayor Sheila Dixon, but the fact that they "cast a cloud over [her] administration despite her best efforts to keep the focus on running ...
11/11/2009 11:38 AM ET
In a story about a black professor allegedly hitting a white colleague in a bar while discussing "white privilege," the Times manages to leave out both the black-white issue and the "white ...
11/11/2009 10:04 AM ET
Barack Obama is a "gifted orator," and so is Bill Clinton, Mario Cuomo...and Howard Dean? Plus: Did Obama's Cairo speech really inspire the mass uprising against corrupted elections in Iran? ...
11/10/2009 2:55 PM ET
Two more articles evade the issue of Malik Hasan's religious extremism and support for suicide bombers, in favor of psychobabble about maintaining diversity and the "strain of working with ...
11/10/2009 11:46 AM ET
Richard Perez-Pena, reporter for a doggedly liberal rival newspaper, comments on The New York Post's "doggedly conservative slant."
