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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Do Conservative Town Hall Protests Really "Shut Down Public Discourse"?

Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "The traditional town hall meeting, a staple of Congressional constituent relations, had been hijacked, overrun by sophisticated social-networking campaigns - those on the ...

Times Downplays Possible Dem Losses in Virginia, NJ - But It Was Bigger Deal in 2005

The last time the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey were up for grabs was 2005, when "stinging" GOP losses meant "President Bush's political standing has fallen." This year it's the Dems ...

Times Soft-Pedals Palestinian Conference Paying Paranoid Tribute to Terrorist Arafat

A Times photo caption pays nauseating tribute to terrorist Yasir Arafat, the subject of a Fatah conference in Bethlehem: "A mural of Yasir Arafat smiled upon Gaza City, and his spirit dominated ...

Paul Krugman Sees Racism Among Town Hall "Mob" Protesters

Paul Krugman: "...the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that's behind the 'birther' movement....it's a strategy that has played a central ...

Egan Says GOP Hates "Cash for Clunkers" Because They Want Obama to Fail

Former reporter Timothy Egan explains why some in the GOP are opposed to "cash for clunkers": "They hate it, many of these Republicans, because it's a huge hit. It's working as planned, and this ...

Dan Barry Defends Not Telling Readers His Homeless Hero Is a Convicted Sex Offender

A hobo story takes a sour turn as the leader of a tent city of the homeless in Rhode Island turned out to be a twice-convicted sex offender. Dan Barry explains why he left that information out of ...

To NY Times, Birther Beliefs 'False...Fringe,' But 9-11 Truthers Part of 'American Tradition' of Dissent?

While those who question Obama's presidential eligibility are called "fringe" and "false," the New York Times gave a respectful hearing to a convention pushing a far more incendiary left-wing ...

"Chief" of Homeless Tent City, Romanticized by Times, Is Convicted Sex Offender

John Freitas, the chief of a homeless tent city in Rhode Island, was romanticized on the front page of Friday's Times. On Wednesday, after pressure, the Times admits that Freitas is a ...

Birther Beliefs Are "False...Fringe," But 9-11 Truthers Part of an "American Tradition" of Dissent?

While those who question Obama's presidential eligibility are called 'fringe' and 'false,' the Times gave a respectful hearing to a convention pushing a far more incendiary left-wing conspiracy ...

Dan Bilefsky Still Hates Pro-Market, Anti-EU Czech President

Times reporter Dan Bilefsky warns that the pro-free-market, pro-Israel, Czech Republic president Vaclav Klaus "clings to national sovereignty" and may commit the "ultimate act of sabotage" against ...

Frank Rich Calls Out GOP for Racism, Dishonestly Links Sarah Palin to "Birther" Brigade

Sarah Palin's a Birther? Frank Rich evidently wants us to think so: "Obama's election, far from alleviating paranoia in the white fringe, has only compounded it. There is no purer expression of ...

Frank Rich Calls Out GOP for Racism, Dishonestly Links Sarah Palin to 'Birther' Brigade

Sarah Palin's a Birther? Frank Rich evidently wants us to think so: "Obama's election, far from alleviating paranoia in the white fringe, has only compounded it. There is no purer expression of ...

Celebrating the First Lady, and the First Daughters Too

Hold the front page? Another non-news tribute to Michelle Obama from reporter Rachel Swarns, who reports that along with all the other fabulous things she does, the first lady is a great mother: ...

Reporter Goes Gay Bar-Hopping in Beirut

Ever wanted to know more about the gay scene in Beirut? No? Well it's there anyway, on the front page of the Times travel section, in a bar-hopping story by reporter Patrick Healy.

NYC Enjoys Historically Cool Summer, But Don't Dare Call It Global Cooling!

As New York City enjoys a historically cool summer, suddenly weather is just weather, not a sign that climate change is coming. But when regions suffered spurts of warmer-than-usual weather, it ...

Surprise: Times Discovers Rich Can't Pay for Everything Obama Wants

If Obama really wants his expensive health-care plan, then everyone's going to take a hit, a story by Jackie Calmes suggests. Finally.

Public Editor Lets Alessandra Stanley Off the Hook a Little for Awful Cronkite Obit

Clark Hoyt: "The Times published an especially embarrassing correction on July 22, fixing seven errors in a single article - an appraisal of Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman famed for his ...

Decline in GDP "Hopeful Sign" for NYT; GDP Gain During Bush Years "Arrow" Pointing to Recession

Is there a double standard in how the struggling economy is being portrayed?

Times Tried to Keep Race Angle Alive Before Obama's "Beer Summit"

The Times hypes a meaningless discrepancy between Sgt. Crowley's police report and the 911 call he was responding to.

Robert Pear, Victim of Excessive Obama Enthusiasm Syndrome

Health reporter Robert Pear is very optimistic about Obama's big health-care takeover. Last month another Times reporter declared the administration was "well positioned...to achieve a major ...