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
4/7/2009 12:50 PM ET
Suddenly, protests against commencement speeches by political figures are troubling and potentially cringeworthy - at least when they involve pro-abortion liberal Democrats.
4/7/2009 11:46 AM ET
Tea parties were "spawned in the red-meat districts of right-wing talk radio and cable TV....the green lawn was rumbling with grass-roots anger. Actually, its grass-rootiness was highly debatable."
4/7/2009 10:09 AM ET
Ignoring eight years of repugnant leftist attacks on George Bush, columnist Charles Blow wakes up, discovers extremists on the right: "They're apocalyptic. They feel isolated, angry, betrayed and ...
4/6/2009 2:50 PM ET
The Boston Globe reports: "The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut the Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, union leaders said."
4/6/2009 2:06 PM ET
The suddenly tough-on-crime Times is comfortable running "wanted posters" from the politically correct EPA. Yet it ran an article approving of another paper's decision not to run FBI photos of two ...
4/6/2009 12:16 PM ET
The Times mocks conservative South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford for not taking federal stimulus money, and picks a strange time to start picking on "extreme" frugality.
4/3/2009 5:27 PM ET
Kirk Johnson and Katharine Seelye leave the question open about a professor who likened the victims of 9-11 to Nazis: "Is Mr. Churchill, as his supporters contend, a torchbearer for the right to ...
4/3/2009 3:51 PM ET
NYT Executive Editor Keller: "If you're inclined to trust Google as your source for news - Google yourself." Does that include the Times stories on Google News?
4/3/2009 3:14 PM ET
With Obama in office, world peace is surely in sight.
4/2/2009 3:01 PM ET
Our hero: Eric Lichtblau rushes to liberal Obama nominee Harold Koh's defense against unfair conservative attacks. "The controversy began with a short article in The New York Post and soon ...
4/2/2009 1:23 PM ET
Smooth diplomacy from the new Kennedys: Unplayable DVDs for the Prime Minister, and an Ipod loaded up with Obama speeches for the Queen.
4/1/2009 2:50 PM ET
Two Seth Mydans stories from a Khmer Rouge trial in Phnom Penh ignore the communist ideology behind the liquidation of two million Cambodians by the fanatical movement, to the point of removing a ...
4/1/2009 1:36 PM ET
More slant from legal reporter Neil Lewis, who has little sympathy for conservative arguments.
3/31/2009 3:06 PM ET
An inflammatory op-ed in the Sunday Week in Review wants people "storming angrily into the streets" over the banking bailouts.
3/31/2009 2:37 PM ET
A Republican lawyer made that claim at a House hearing, claiming information from an ACORN whistleblower.
3/31/2009 12:47 PM ET
Political personality reporter Mark Leibovich again butters up a Democrat, yet brings sarcasm to profiles of GOP VP Dick Cheney and other conservative Republicans.
3/30/2009 3:22 PM ET
The Times belatedly realizes the new bulbs are no environmental panacea: "It sounds like such a simple thing to do: buy some new light bulbs, screw them in, save the planet. But a lot of people ...
3/30/2009 2:52 PM ET
A Times reporter seems glad to see the end of the post 9-11 days "when any use of patriotic motifs seemed to be beyond public reproach, no matter how cynical or sentimental."
3/30/2009 12:00 PM ET
The Times quoted several critics of Fox News provocateur Glenn Beck, but has hardly ever found critics of MSNBC leftist hosts Rachel Maddow and the paranoid, vitriolic Keith Olbermann.
3/27/2009 3:12 PM ET
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is attacked on the front page for having once represented Big Tobacco. So how did the Times treat an Obama Justice Department nominee who represented an American Taliban ...
