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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10/20/2009 2:43 PM ET
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 ...
10/20/2009 1:26 PM ET
Michael Wines on the bright side of Communist rule - no pesky "political machinery" to worry about: "In the past decade...authorities have moved against air pollution problems with a tenacity that ...
10/20/2009 1:26 PM ET
Michael Wines on the bright side of Communist rule - no pesky "political machinery" to worry about: "In the past decade...authorities have moved against air pollution problems with a tenacity that ...
10/19/2009 6:18 PM ET
Talking to Charlie Rose, Times columnist Roger Cohen again downplayed Israel's security fears, urged them to talk to the anti-Israeli terrorist group Hamas, and insisted the U.S. pursue engagement ...
10/19/2009 6:04 PM ET
The Times, which loathed former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign, now accuses him of "incendiary" comments on crime on a campaign stop with NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, lining ...
10/19/2009 5:08 PM ET
The Times, which loathed former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign, now accuses him of "incendiary" comments on crime on a campaign stop with NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, lining ...
10/19/2009 1:44 PM ET
Talking to Charlie Rose, Times columnist Roger Cohen again downplayed Israel's security fears, urged them to talk to the anti-Israeli terrorist group Hamas, and insisted the U.S. pursue engagement ...
10/16/2009 2:20 PM ET
Jackie Calmes finds the GOP dominated by a rump group of conservative Southerners who take orders from cable: "They are largely reduced to the party's base of mostly Southern and rural states and ...
10/16/2009 12:31 PM ET
Barack Obama is visiting conservative college campus Texas A&M, leading the Times to suddenly start caring about a college not embarrassing itself by disrespecting the president - a concern ...
10/15/2009 2:15 PM ET
Liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof takes on the teachers' unions, whose resistance to reform has resulted in "generations of disadvantaged children" being "cemented into an underclass by ...
10/14/2009 3:22 PM ET
Cheney-obsessed columnist Maureen Dowd predicts Liz Cheney's website will "have all kinds of fun reading, like memos by Bush lawyers on enhanced interrogation. (Or, as it's more commonly known ...
10/14/2009 2:14 PM ET
Unlike the paper's sour coverage of the September 12 anti-spending rally, Ian Urbina's profile of Tuesday's rally for amnesty was stocked with nothing but positive vibes.
10/13/2009 4:31 PM ET
Oh the irony: Inflammatory race-baiter Al Sharpton says Rush Limbaugh is too "divisive" to own an NFL team, while columnist George Vecsey treats Limbaugh like an unworthy upstart and maybe a ...
10/13/2009 3:09 PM ET
Reporter Damien Cave's front-page story was notable for the respect he showed a particular group of aggressive political demonstrators that don't garner plaudits from the media - pro-lifers. The ...
10/12/2009 3:57 PM ET
The paper's left-wing "Ethicist" columnist calls for a crackdown on candy jars in the office: "Snacking might be defended as a personal choice, but it's tough to stay cake-free amid a permanent ...
10/12/2009 3:19 PM ET
Columnist Thomas Friedman, writing a mock Nobel Prize speech for Obama, urges the president to hail the U.S. military as "the world's most important peacekeepers."
10/12/2009 2:23 PM ET
Columnist Maureen Dowd reads Dan Browns' new novel "The Lost Symbol" and uncovers the real conspiracy as well as "a father-son struggle for global domination, as though we didn't get enough of ...
10/12/2009 2:03 PM ET
The Times hypes the gay rights rally with optimistic crowd estimates and a positive tone quite unlike the paper's sour coverage of the much larger conservative rally of September 12. But how many ...
10/10/2009 12:45 PM ET
Veteran reporter Thomas Edsall is again sounding the alarm on the political imbalance of today's news media, though his proposed solution, illustrated by the headline to his Thursday post at ...
10/9/2009 1:42 PM ET
Biased health reporter Katharine Seelye goes after Sen. John McCain on a nytimes.com podcast for being a "bit of a bomb-thrower" for pushing...a liberal idea on importing cheap drugs from Canada ...
