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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6/10/2009 11:10 AM ET
Food writer Kim Severson claims E. coli is "a constant in the food supply" and passes along a filmmaker-activist's suggestions on combatting "Food, Inc.": "Plant a garden. Cook a meal for the ...
6/9/2009 3:13 PM ET
Did the Times ever contrast Bush and Osama like this after a Bush speech?: "If the medium were the message, the contrasts could not have been more stark. The American president was polished and ...
6/9/2009 2:15 PM ET
Michael Slackman, whose previous reporting focused on how much the Muslim world hated America, finds the Obama administration winning hearts and minds and even elections: "There were many domestic ...
6/9/2009 11:39 AM ET
Peter Goodman: "Yes, that Hummer, maker of the famously gas-guzzling behemoths whose menacing width and armor trace their provenance to the American military....the Hummer has become an object ...
6/9/2009 9:27 AM ET
"A presidential elbow to the ribs of husbands" read the text box. Would an expensive Manhattan jaunt by George and Laura Bush during a recession have been given such gauzy treatment?
6/9/2009 8:48 AM ET
The Times flayed the GOP for saying "Barack Hussein Obama" during the campaign, but celebrates the president's middle name when it may benefit him overseas. Plus, Obama's effortless diplomacy in ...
6/8/2009 3:44 PM ET
Does the Times consider the viciously anti-gay protestors of Westboro Baptist Church (who have picketed the funerals of U.S. soldiers) part of the pro-life movement?
6/8/2009 3:26 PM ET
Legal reporter Adam Liptak hints that the decision Judge Sotomayor and her two appeals court colleagues reached in the reverse discrimination case Ricci v. DeStefano was flawed and unprofessional.
6/6/2009 7:57 AM ET
Double standard? Today's 9.4% unemployment rate "fueled hopes" that the economy was recovering, but 4.6% unemployment rates during the Bush administration were characterized as "job growth slowing ...
6/5/2009 1:43 PM ET
Mike Hale can't abide Glenn Beck's mocking of Democrats: "...there was little in the show to reassure those who see Mr. Beck as a right-wing ranter bordering on a demagogue....jokes that pounded ...
6/4/2009 1:50 PM ET
Reporter David Herszenhorn tried to fact check conservative Sen. Mitch McConnell's attacks on socialized medicine, but came off looking pretty anemic.
6/4/2009 1:04 PM ET
The Times mocks a push for Italy's center-right prime minister to win the Nobel Peace Prize - but didn't make a fuss when terrorist Yassir Arafat shared the Nobel in 1994.
6/3/2009 1:52 PM ET
White House reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg laments GOP attacks on Sotomayor: "And also I think that it's important to note that this comes in the broader context of race relations in this country, ...
6/2/2009 1:37 PM ET
Sonia Sotomayor's no racist, but just about everyone in the Republican party is, says the Times liberal columnist.
6/2/2009 1:21 PM ET
Bill O'Reilly's "highest profile" hostility toward abortion doctor George Tiller, yet wasn't noticed by the Times until leftist bloggers began blaming him.
6/2/2009 12:12 PM ET
The left-wing columnist excoriated Trent Lott in 2002 for allegedly racist remarks at the 100th birthday party for retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond - but dismissed Sotomayor's claim suggesting ethnic ...
6/2/2009 11:15 AM ET
A front-page Business section article sure readers a lot like a liberal editorial: "But if education is a fundamental right, then it's hard to argue against public policies that try to make sure ...
6/2/2009 8:43 AM ET
Randy Kennedy celebrates mediocre paintings of Obama: "Perhaps not since John F. Kennedy, whose dusty portraits can still be seen in kitchens and barbershops and alongside the antique beer cans at ...
6/1/2009 3:41 PM ET
Fox News Channel host Jon Scott on a foiled plot to bomb two synagogues in New York City: "Why did the New York Times decide to shy away from mentioning the suspect's extreme Muslim beliefs?"
6/1/2009 3:15 PM ET
Times reporters never use the term "ultraliberal" to describe politicians, but Steve Lonegan, a former mayor running in the New Jersey Republican gubernatorial primary, was called ...
