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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Times Plays Catch-Up to Washington Post on Congressional Ethics Scoop

A big lead-story scoop from the Washington Post becomes a Page 22 piece in Friday's New York Times.

The Great White Way: Not an Escape Route from Politics

...as theatre critic Charles Isherwood shows in his review of the surprise Broadway success, "Finian's Rainbow."

Times Suddenly Concerned About Journalists at Partisan Political Events

The Times raised its eyebrow at libertarian journalist John Stossel for upcoming speeches at a conservative forum - yet Linda Greenhouse, the paper's Supreme Court reporter for almost two decades, ...

Influential NYT Editor Tanenhaus: Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 'Committed Impeachable Offenses Probably'

Did Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush "probably" commit "impeachable offenses"? That's what influential New York Times editor Sam Tanenhaus thinks. On Wednesday night, the influential editor of ...

Influential Editor Tanenhaus: Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 'Committed Impeachable Offenses Probably'

The Times' Week in Review and Sunday Book editor again goes on the PBS talk show Charlie Rose to again declare conservatism dead, with a new twist: Reagan and George W. Bush "probably" could have ...

No Joke: Mass Times Plagiarizer Jayson Blair to Speak on Media Ethics

Blair will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University's 48th Journalism Ethics Institute. Journalism Ethics professor Edward Wasserman admitted the choice was "a departure for us."

Carl Hulse Accuses Nevada GOP of 'Swiftboating' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Carl Hulse reports on a Nevada GOP accusation against Sen. Harry Reid by using the Swift Boats Veterans for Truth as a synonym for lying: "Sensing a possible Swiftboat attack, the Reid campaign ...

'Conservatives' Afoot in Upstate New York Election Fighting 'Unorthodox' Scozzafava

Labeling disparity in Jeremy Peters' take on the wild special election to fill a congressional seat in New York state, a three-way battle pitting "unorthodox" (not liberal) Republican Dede ...

Times Calls Technical Foul on Obama's All-Male Basketball Games

Mark Leibovich goes after Obama from the feminist left: "Does the White House feel like a frat house? The suspicion flared in recent weeks - and not for the first time - after President Obama was ...

NY Times's Frank Rich Finds Anti-Bush Argument in Balloon Boy Saga

New York Times columnist Frank Rich: "The Colorado balloon may have led to the rerouting of flights and the wasteful deployment of law enforcement resources. But at least it didn't lead the ...

Blech: Charles Blow on 'The Magic of Michelle.'

....and he doesn't mean Michelle Malkin. Columnist Blow confirms "coolest" Michelle Obama is a first lady who is "genuinely human." As opposed to the rest.

Giuliani-Hostile Reporter Defends David Dinkins As NYC Mayor

Veteran Times reporter Michael Powell doesn't like Rudy Giuliani much: His 2007 profile of then-presidential candidate Giuliani accused the former NYC mayor of stoking racism. Today Powell took on ...

Frank Rich Finds Anti-Bush Argument in Balloon Boy Saga

Think overdramatic liberal columnist Frank Rich couldn't make an anti-Bush, anti-war argument out of Balloon Boy? Don't underestimate him: "Next to the other hoaxes and fantasies that have been ...

Times Focuses on Gallup Poll Showing Palin Unpopularity, Ignored Drops by Obama, John Edwards

The Times still doesn't miss a chance to go after Sarah Palin: "The endorsement comes just a week after a Gallup poll found that Mrs. Palin's favorability had dipped to its lowest point since she ...

Architecture Critic Ouroussoff Predicts a Manhattan Under Water

The paper's architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff again tries his hands at liberal policy, with the usual "apocalyptic" results.

'Stimulus' Not a Failure, Says Jackie Calmes and Pro-Obama Economist

Without explanation, Jackie Calmes relayed claims from "most economists" that the stimulus has actually been a success, or at least not a "failure," and quoted in support unlabeled pro-Obama ...

A Tale of Two States: Socialist Hawaii vs. Conservative Utah on Health

Times reporters embrace Hawaii's socialist universal health scheme ("Lawmakers working on a national health care fix have much to learn from the past 35 years in Hawaii") but dislike Utah's ...

Times Quick To Name GOP as Insulting Jews, Avoided Labeling 2008 Anti-Semitic Tactics as Dem

The Times quickly identified as Republican two county chairmen who wrote a clumsy compliment about wealthy Jews being fiscally prudent. But when a Democratic candidate for Congress circulated ...

Example of Israeli 'Force' Over Palestinians: Checkpoints To Combat Terrorism?

Does Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner really think the success of checkpoints designed to stop Palestinian terrorists "is a dark truth" and an example of "force" over diplomacy?

Huh? China's Anti-Communist 'Liberals' Battle Communist 'Conservatives'?

Labeling confusion: In a profile of China dissident Du Daozheng, the Times calls the noble dissenters "liberals" and the authoritarian Communist regime "conservative" without clarifying that in ...