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
8/18/2008 4:41 PM ET
The presidential race is tightening, yet the Times still portrays "conservatives" as full of angst over their VP choices.
8/18/2008 2:48 PM ET
Michiko Kakutani: "For all its eviscerations of the administration, 'The Daily Show' is animated not by partisanship but by a deep mistrust of all ideology." What show has she been watching?
8/18/2008 2:07 PM ET
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and Willie Horton ad fall under the "smear" category, but the NAACP's 2000 attack on George W. Bush doesn't.
8/14/2008 3:35 PM ET
Even while the candidate's on vacation, the Obama camp gets more and better coverage than does John McCain.
8/14/2008 3:13 PM ET
Republicans, by contrast, get almost instant identification in news stories on their alleged misdeeds.
8/14/2008 2:25 PM ET
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, a potential Obama running mate gets typically warm, almost heroic, treatment.
8/13/2008 3:13 PM ET
Can't win alert: According to Michael Powell, when the McCain camp accused Barack Obama of playing the race card, it was itself playing the race card.
8/13/2008 1:21 PM ET
For years, the Times has praised misleading anti-Bush books. Yet when a successful book attacking Barack Obama appears, the Times pushes back with a front-page article critical of the ...
8/12/2008 3:11 PM ET
Damned if you do...McCain's hard line against Russia is called dangerous - but the Times also runs a front-page story asking why hasn't George helped Georgia yet.
8/12/2008 2:12 PM ET
Carl Hulse pushes the Indiana senator's "moderate-to-conservative record," a description utterly nullified by Bayh's actual left-of-center voting history.
8/11/2008 2:50 PM ET
Bumiller raises the age issue and recycles her own old attacks on McCain: "Mr. McCain has made a number of verbal gaffes in recent months, including referring three times to Czechoslovakia, a ...
8/11/2008 1:56 PM ET
How sad, how sweet: "The verdict in the first war crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is in: One poorly educated Yemeni, with an impish sense of humor and two little girls, is guilty of ...
8/11/2008 12:54 PM ET
The Times comes up with two excuses for not covering allegations of a John Edwards affair: 1) they were anonymously sourced and 2) Edwards was not in contention as Obama's running mate. Both ...
8/8/2008 2:18 PM ET
Plus Ruth Bader Ginsburg's not liberal, Swift Boat Vets an "ugly chapter" in history
8/8/2008 1:36 PM ET
A NYT online survey gives hints at what executives at the paper are worried about.
8/7/2008 3:17 PM ET
The Times applies the same "grim milestone" template to the 500 deaths in Afghanistan that it does to every 1,000 deaths in Iraq.
8/7/2008 3:03 PM ET
Adam Nossiter files a disturbing story about racism and anti-Semitism in a Democratic primary in Memphis - but leaves out the "Democrat" part.
8/7/2008 2:28 PM ET
John Edwards falls off the paper's page of potential vice presidents, for some unacknowledged reason.
8/6/2008 5:18 PM ET
The Times suggests oilman T. Boone Pickens is getting into renewable energy sources for the money: "Perhaps not coincidentally, Mr. Pickens's plan aligns with his own business interests." Yet the ...
8/6/2008 3:05 PM ET
More editorializing in the news section: "But in the contest between trees and the area's rampant development, the bulldozers have often won."
