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
7/7/2008 10:59 AM ET
No love for the "right-wing" senator from North Carolina: "Jesse Helms...whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign ...
7/7/2008 10:13 AM ET
Obama's June 5-July 5 coverage was positive by a 3:1 ratio. McCain's coverage was negative, by the same ratio.
7/3/2008 1:19 PM ET
The same court which last week held up a vital civil liberty - individual gun ownership - is accused of "stripping away civil liberties" in today's lead editorial.
7/2/2008 2:10 PM ET
When the Times runs a long profile of Rush Limbaugh that doesn't actually caricature its subject as a bombastic, cigar-chomping mocker of the downtrodden, it's worth a mention.
7/2/2008 1:29 PM ET
The Times' gloomiest economics reporter Peter Goodman leads with "awful sales numbers" for autos, and paints an economy headed for the abyss.
7/1/2008 2:29 PM ET
Brian Knowlton in the Times' international edition: "An article in The Washington Post on Monday summed up the entirely false rumors being widely circulated in small-town America this way: that ...
7/1/2008 1:26 PM ET
The Times' lead economics reporter takes a paranoid, Michael Moore-style perspective on news that Iraq will award oil contracts to Western companies.
7/1/2008 12:19 PM ET
How Obama is winning back the religious vote by "drawing on his own characteristics and story, including his embrace of Christianity as an adult, a facility with biblical language and imagery and ...
7/1/2008 10:48 AM ET
Yet another story on the inevitable decline of Fox News - problem is, liberal-leaning CNN and MSNBC are always gaining but never actually catch up to Fox News.
6/30/2008 4:20 PM ET
Jim Rutenberg profiles leftist filmmaker Robert Greenwald and his cottage industry of anti-McCain videos and finds nothing amiss - yet flags two conservative producers of anti-Obama videos for ...
6/30/2008 4:13 PM ET
"Last week Mr. Rove caricatured him as the elitist 'guy at the country club with the beautiful date.' Provocative as it is to inject Mr. Obama into a setting historically associated with white ...
6/30/2008 1:56 PM ET
Reporter Kate Zernike, the Times most ardent John Kerry defender, finds another front from which to launch attacks on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
6/28/2008 7:08 AM ET
Stephen Holden's high praise for a Hollywood Communist (and FBI informant): "Peter Askin's stirring documentary 'Trumbo' gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep."
6/27/2008 3:13 PM ET
The Times uses a misleading stat to bolster its bad argument: "Thirty-thousand Americans are killed by guns every year - on the job, walking to school, at the shopping mall. The Supreme Court on ...
6/27/2008 2:56 PM ET
Plus: Writing While Whiny, and Expect Racist GOP to Assault Obama
6/27/2008 2:15 PM ET
Helene Cooper slants her story on liberal State Department diplomacy's triumph in North Korea over Dick Cheney's "hard-line" approach.
6/26/2008 3:03 PM ET
An incomplete story infused with labeling bias: While the Federalist Society is "bedrock conservative," the Council on American-Islamic Relations merely "advocates civil liberties."
6/26/2008 3:00 PM ET
The Times' political editor Richard Stevenson (pictured) admits "there are more political liberals in newsrooms than conservatives" but of course denies any favoritism on the part of his paper's ...
6/25/2008 2:39 PM ET
Hyping a new gay play, the Times lets two performers accuse a politician of inciting anti-gay violence.
6/25/2008 2:16 PM ET
Is this it? "Among the incidents they cite are a statement by Mr. McCain, in a 2007 interview with Beliefnet.com, that he would prefer a Christian president to a Muslim one; a comment by Senator ...
