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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10/1/2009 2:46 PM ET
The NY Times moralized over Rep. Joe Wilson's "disrespectful" outburst ("You lie!") during Obama's health care address to Congress. But when a Democrat said the GOP's health care plan was for ...
10/1/2009 1:40 PM ET
James Barron looks with suspicion at the group hosting a Danish cartoonist whose life was threatened for a caricature mocking Muhammad: "People who have been at odds with Muslims."
9/30/2009 4:05 PM ET
David Herszenhorn accepts dubious liberal premises about how the cost of U.S. health care is "rising way too fast" and talks in soothing terms of "reductions to slow Medicare spending" (don't call ...
9/30/2009 3:19 PM ET
Making a truly odious comparison, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman claimed parallels between the behavior of anti-Obama protestors (who have been quite peaceful) to that of "extreme ...
9/30/2009 2:25 PM ET
Columnist Thomas Friedman warns that "criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the ...
9/29/2009 4:43 PM ET
A reader could assume the Sept. 12 conservative protest in DC and the anarchist protest in Pittsburgh were of the same magnitude, as both described the crowd as in "thousands." Headline from the ...
9/29/2009 2:45 PM ET
Surprise: After dismissing conservative concern over possible taxpayer-funded abortions under Obama-care as a "peripheral" issue or even a "myth," the Times runs a front-page story headlined ...
9/29/2009 1:42 PM ET
Yeah Obama! (And don't mention the betrayal of Poland and the Czech Republic over the cancelling of an antimissile system.)
9/29/2009 11:57 AM ET
Raines' tribute to former Times colleague William Safire includes this self-description: "It always amused me that this conservative Eastern elitist was a deep-dyed populist when it came to ...
9/29/2009 11:21 AM ET
Coverage of the leftists and anarchists protesting the Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh downplayed the violence in a headline implying peace ruled, and boasted of a crowd size of up to 4,000. Yet ...
9/28/2009 3:20 PM ET
Like parents, like daughter: "Like her father, Ms. Cheney speaks in understated, almost academic cadences, head veering down into her notes. She also shares his willingness to pummel President ...
9/28/2009 1:11 PM ET
New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt's latest column tackles the ACORN scandal - or as Times readers know it: "What ACORN scandal?" In "Tuning In Too Late," Hoyt criticized the Times for its ...
9/28/2009 11:05 AM ET
The paper's public editor criticized the Times for its lack of coverage of the juicy ACORN imbroglio, an omission that has prodded the paper into creating a new semi-position to monitor opinion ...
9/25/2009 3:50 PM ET
Plus: Thomas Friedman Praises Communist China for Getting Things Done
9/25/2009 2:37 PM ET
In the paper's latest poll that oversamples Democrats, Adam Nagourney does some spinning for Obama's agenda and oversimplifies opposition to "death panels" and access by illegals to government ...
9/24/2009 2:30 PM ET
Reporter and global warming advocate Andrew Revkin wonders if the recent stabilization in global temps (good news, right?) will halt government regulation on climate change. Meanwhile, Seth Mydans ...
9/24/2009 2:01 PM ET
Columnist Paul Krugman refers to the Great Depression to call Obama's massive stimulus package "trivial stuff" in comparison, and wishes Obama had not let the financial crisis "go to waste" by ...
9/24/2009 12:47 PM ET
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called out the Obama administration for using a federal agency to squelch mailings by health insurance company Humana warning customers of cuts to the ...
9/23/2009 6:27 PM ET
The Times' health care priorities revealed: A parody ad by liberal comedian Will Ferrell and left-wing MoveOn.org is considered newsworthy; suppression of free speech by the Obama administration ...
9/23/2009 4:16 PM ET
The New York Times' health care priorities revealed: A parody ad by liberal comedian Will Farrell and left-wing MoveOn.org is considered newsworthy; suppression of free speech by the Obama ...
