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.
Author Articles
7/11/2009 3:40 PM ET
Why did a "well-educated" professor get arrested for child endangerment? Columnist Judith Warner blames...Sarah Palin? "This is why Palin - in her down-home aw-shucks posturing - is the ...
7/10/2009 3:25 PM ET
Sheryl Gay Stolberg finds something else to fawn about regarding Sonia Sotomayor: "That no-nonsense attitude, combined with the attention to detail that characterizes her legal opinions, has been ...
7/10/2009 2:47 PM ET
Cornelia Dean chides the public for doubting the undeniably harmful effects of global warming: "...about a third of Americans think there is lively scientific debate on both topics; in ...
7/9/2009 2:54 PM ET
A story on corrupt ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich didn't mention his Democratic affiliation, but a story on convicted Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman did - to make him look like a victim of a ...
7/9/2009 2:05 PM ET
Obama made multiple verbal gaffes while in Moscow, including misremembering his daughter's age and where he met his wife. Times coverage? A single paragraph. Would George W. Bush have gotten the ...
7/9/2009 12:25 PM ET
The TV critic accuses a PBS series host of being "in thrall to the Chicago School's free-market philosophy" and blasts the "collaboration between the dictator Augusto Pinochet and Milton Friedman ...
7/7/2009 5:20 PM ET
Adam Nagourney sneers about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's surprise retirement: "By stepping down before finishing her term, she cannot claim to be even a one-term governor." The Times was never ...
7/7/2009 12:17 PM ET
Liberal reporter Eric Eckholm pushes another left-wing study exaggerating the fragility of the "fraying" safety net.
7/6/2009 6:26 PM ET
Maureen Dowd passed along an extremely dubious psychological anecdote about Sarah Palin from her former colleague, journalist Todd Purdum, who penned a hit piece on the Alaska governor for Vanity ...
7/6/2009 5:38 PM ET
The Times' alleged conservative, Week in Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, again denigrates the Republican Party.
7/2/2009 2:51 PM ET
Education reporter Sam Dillon doesn't question using the economic "stimulus" money for funding summer school classes facing the budget ax.
7/2/2009 1:47 PM ET
A story on Times editors hashing out the next morning's front page talks of "11 men and 7 women with the power to decide what was important in the world."
7/2/2009 1:36 PM ET
Happy 4th of July! Reporter turned nytimes.com blogger Timothy Egan celebrates the return of liberal patriotism after the nightmare of the Bush years.
7/2/2009 12:50 PM ET
Yet another sympathetic portrayal ofillegal immigrants as cowering 'in the shadows' - a phrase the Times has used several times in supposedly objective news stories.
7/1/2009 5:17 PM ET
The New York Times' lead editorial Wednesday proudly flew the liberal flag, calling the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Ricci v. DeStefano (aka the New Haven firefighter case) "a blow to diversity ...
7/1/2009 4:44 PM ET
The Times shows its knee-jerk liberalism in the New Haven firefighter case, and defends Obama nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
7/1/2009 3:04 PM ET
Sheryl Gay Stolberg also failed to quote anyone opposed to a Wal-Mart/labor union alliance pushing a requirement that companies provide health insurance to their workers.
7/1/2009 1:11 PM ET
Reporter Edmund Andrews, who wrote a misleading book about his own personal mortgage crisis, writes a misleading article on a proposed new consumer protection agency that would...help people ...
6/30/2009 5:11 PM ET
When it came to the rigged election in Iran, Barack Obama played it cool in his public statements, earning the tacit approval of the Times. But when the Honduran military toppled that country's ...
6/30/2009 1:27 PM ET
Reporter Jonathan Glater issues a virtual press release in favor of a liberalized (in both senses) student loan repayment program praised by Naderites.
