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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The NYT's Annual Book-List Blacklist of Conservatives

The Times' list of 52 nonfiction books includes six from Times writers and no less than six from other liberal journalists, but zero from avowed conservatives.

Stolberg: Big-Government Proposals Provide "Comfort" in Times Akin to Great Depression

The Times' White House reporter celebrates the New New Deal: "Well I think you're seeing a very interesting comparison frankly to Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. This has been called the New ...

Times Blogger Rejects Hipster Affection for Che Guevara

A Times blogger calls out ignorant admirers of Che Guevara, reminding readers of Guevara's "executions when he presided over the prison at La Cabana and his apparent "willingness to have let the ...

Surprise: NYT Focuses on Eric Holder's Role in Marc Rich Pardon

Tuesday's front page has a cautionary tale on Obama's nominee for attorney general: "Mr. Holder's supporters portray him as having been a relatively uninvolved bystander caught in a Clinton-era ...

Thomas Friedman's Sudden Obama-Based Optimism on Iraq

What gall: The Times' columnist sees Obama and the Democrats benefiting from an improving situation in Iraq - but fails to mention their staunch opposition to the troop surge that made the ...

The Times Trumpets Unlikely Poster Boy Against Deportation

Seth Mydans fails to warm Times Watch's cold heart with this anecdote about "K.K.", an immigrant deported to his home country: "It was only after he was convicted of armed robbery at 18 that he ...

Reporter Blames U.S. Business for Wal-Mart Trampling, a "Shopping Guernica"

The Times economics reporter on the trampling death at an early-morning Wal-Mart sale: "It was a tragedy, yet it did not feel like an accident. All those people were there, lined up in the cold ...

Warning: "Arrogant...Inflammatory" Free Market Radical Set to Embarrass the EU

Reporter Dan Bilefsky warns readers to beware the "arrogant" free-market advocate Vaclav Klaus: "Now the Czech Republic is about to assume the rotating presidency of the European Union and there ...

From the Campaign to the Transition: Decanting More Jodi Kantor Bias

Calling her "an expert in urban affairs, particularly housing and transportation," Kantor praises Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett while glossing over questions about her management of Chicago ...

Two Times Columnists Want Obama in There Early

Gail Collins favors a Bush-Cheney resignation and an interim President Pelosi, while Tom Friedman wants to move Inauguration Day up to Thanksgiving.

Time Journalist Calls Out NYT's "Extreme Pro-Obama Coverage"

Time Magazine journalist Mark Halperin ripped contrasting NYT profiles of Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama (both written by Jodi Kantor, pictured) as his prime examples of slanted campaign coverage.

Not a Parody: "Turkeys Were Being Executed in the Background"

Does the Times' editorial board know where Thankgiving dinner comes from? Its hysterical reaction to a clip of Sarah Palin at a turkey pardon suggests not.

A Sanitized Profile of Hezbollah's Unhappy Campers

Reporter Robert Worth devotes 2,600 words to Hezbollah's "Boy Scout"-style youth movement" in Lebanon without once using the word "terrorism."

The NYT's Prop. 8 Omissions

What the Times isn't telling its readers about the fight over California's new law banning gay marriage.

GOP Senator "Questioned the Patriotism" of Democrat Max Cleland?

The Times conintues to spread mythology about a 2002 campaign ad targeting former Sen. Max Cleland, Democrat of Georgia.

Obama Leads Chicago Renaissance

Jeff Zeleny promotes how lucky Chicago is to host President-Elect Obama: "Yet this moment of renaissance for Chicago is about much more than architecture and athletics. For the first time in the ...

Damning Phil Gramm for Financial Meltdown

The Times finds its ideal villain for the financial market meltdown: Conservative former Sen. Phil Gramm. So why did Bill Clinton defend him?

NYT Says Dan Rather Right on GOP-CBS Conspiracy

Jacques Steinberg lauds Dan Rather, still clever like a fox: "Using tools unavailable to him as a reporter - including the power of subpoena and the threat of punishment against witnesses who lie ...

Labeling Overload in Miami

Michael Cooper overdoses on "conservative" labels in a snide report from the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami

Phony Concern for National Review's Reputation

Lamenting a "far right" past it never respected in the first place: "Now, thanks to the coarsening effect of the Internet on political discourse, the magazine may have lost something else: its ...