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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Same Old Slant: "Angry" Conservatives Attacking Poor Sen. Grassley on Health

In Jackie Calmes' slanted take, angry conservatives are unfairly blasting Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa for being too amenable to Obama-care, especially "socially conservative ideologues who have ...

Times Science Writer Flouts Media Wisdom on Life Expectancy, Socialized Medicine

Science writer John Tierney finds other reasons besides lack of socialized medicine for America's low life expectancy compared to Europe: We used to smoke a lot more, for one.

"Civil Libertarians" NYT's New Euphemism for Liberals

Legal reporter Charles Savage breaks it out several times in a story to describe opposition to provisins of the Patriot Act. Savage uncovered no "liberal" opponents but did locate "fierce ...

Peter Goodman Faults America's "Faith in Unfettered Markets" and Horatio Alger-Optimism

Times economics reporter Peter Goodman again laments the American "faith in unfettered markets" and wonders if the country will revert to "Casino America" after the financial crisis recedes.

We'll Bleat Again: Alan Cowell Comes Out Against Afghan War in Vera Lynn Tribute

Reporter Alan Cowell can't pay tribute to Britain's World War II songstress Vera Lynn without bringing up the war in Afghanistan where Britain is "leeching the lives of the soldiers it sends there."

Tanenhaus Sees Conservatives in "Rigor Mortis" Despite Tea Parties, Floats Conspiracy Theory on Bush v. Gore

Times editor Sam Tanenhaus, author of "The Death of Conservatism," insists to Bill Moyers that the massive protests against Obama may be "overt signs of energy and vitality, but the rigor mortis I ...

Premature "Death" - A Review of "The Death of Conservatism" by Sam Tanenhaus

Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times Book Review and Week in Review sections, doesn't so much call the movement dead as try to define it out of existence. But the political landscape ...

At Last, the Times Discovers Liberals

Jackie Calmes' analysis of Sen. Jay Rockefeller's opposition to Sen. Max Baucus's health care proposal has more "liberal" labels than any Times story in memory.

Single-Payer Group's "45,000 Deaths" Claim Disguised as From "Harvard" Study

Reporter Reed Abelson claimed: "Researchers from Harvard Medical School say the lack of coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year in the United States - a toll that is greater than the ...

Pro-Iran Columnist Roger Cohen Excuses Iran's Malfeasance

From the columnist who argued that Jews had it pretty well in Iran, comes this flowery excuse: "Like many much-conquered countries, not least Italy, Iran loves artifice, the dressing-up of truth ...

'Racially Tinged Attacks' Against Obama at Huge Washington Rally?

On Wednesday night, NBC Nightly News led with ex-president Jimmy Carter's racism charge against conservative opponents of Obama's agenda. On Thursday morning, the New York Times put Carter's slur ...

Carl Hulse Has No Patience for Conservatives Pushing ACORN Scandal

Congressional reporter Carl Hulse sounded impatient with a Republican senator's move to ban the left-wing housing group ACORN from receiving any Interior Department spending: "Not satisfied with ...

Timothy Egan: Middle Class Too Easily "Distracted" To Know Own Best Interests

Former Times reporter Timothy Egan is vexed that many middle-class Americans are heeding "the brat's cry of Joe Wilson" and succumbing to "generalized rage" stoked by "well-funded Astroturf outfits."

"Racially Tinged Attacks" Against Obama at Huge Washington Rally?

Pity our poor president. Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg began their front-page story: "President Obama has long suggested that he would like to move beyond race. The question now is whether the ...

Times Editor, Short Version: Yes, We Have a Liberal Bias

Craig Whitney tackles the issue of liberally biased reporters in less than concise fashion: "All this is to say that many people in modern American journalism - not all, but many - share a general ...

Times Bureau Chief Sniffs at ACORN, Glenn Beck

Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet sniffs at ACORN and Glenn Beck, and suggests Obama-related scandals aren't big news: "For Glenn Beck to devote 45 minutes of his show to ACORN and Van Jones ...

Finally: An ACORN Story Sprouts in Print!

Scott Shane overplays the ideological angle, showing "the right" as "gleeful" in claiming its "latest scalp," as opposed to outrage over a tax-funded leftist organization encouraging tax evasion ...

Glossing Over Real Issues of Nazi-Era Enthusiast Working for Anti-Israel Group

Human Rights Watch staffer Marc Garlasco, author of many reports hostile to Israel, was suspended after revelations he is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia. The Times portrays Garlasco as a ...

Oppose Obama? Racist

Maureen Dowd imagines Rep. Joe Wilson shouting a derogatory word at Obama and uses her feverish imagination to slime all South Carolina Republicans as racists: "But, fair or not, what I heard was ...

Amazing: Times Still Almost Totally Ignores ACORN Scandals

Scandals involving child prostitution results in ACORN losing its partnership agreement with the Census Bureau and the Senate cutting off access to federal housing funds. Yet Times reporters have ...