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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Finally Times Gets Katrina Coverage (Half) Right

"There is no doubt that state and local officials were partly to blame for the slow and inefficient response to Hurricane Katrina." But the Times doubted it for years, focusing all the blame on ...

The Three Faces of Hillary - All Flattering

Mark Leibovich's latest flattering profile gives us Hillary Clinton, Efficient Manager.

Poor Mexicans "Being Squeezed" by Decline in Money Sent Home from Illegals

Isn't the plight of poor Mexicans properly the responsibility of Mexico?

Talking Around Rangel's Big Tax Hike

The Times manages not to spell out precisely where Rangel's tax-hike proposal would begin to bite on "the wealthy."

Adoring Elizabeth Edwards

No "trophy wife" cracks here: "A campaigner so skilled, some wonder who's running."

NYT Loves Bureaucracy

The Times' new editorial board blog celebrates big government and bureaucracy

Double Standards on Osama-Obama Gaffes: Romney vs. Kennedy

Mitt Romney mixed up Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden, and the Times has fun. But what happened when Ted Kennedy did the same thing?

Times Goes Easy on Rep. Stark's Despicable Comments on Bush, Iraq

Liberal Rep. Pete Stark unleashed more despicable comments, sliming U.S. troops as murderers and George W. Bush as a monster, but the Times soft-pedaled the offense while noting Stark "will ...

Editorial Page In Denial Over Good News in Iraq

"The news out of Iraq just keeps getting worse," the lead editorial blares. Does that "news" include the 70% reported drop in violence since the end of June?

"How Dirty Did the Tricks Get?" Times Swallows All Valerie Plame's Claims

In a review of Valerie Plame's new book, Janet Maslin doesn't raise any questions about the former CIA employee or her husband, anti-war misleader Joseph Wilson.

Kakutani's Surprise Kick at Feminist Faludi's "Sloppily Reasoned" 9-11 Book

The Times at first fawned over feminist Susan Faludi's deluded new book on 9-11 - but then liberal book critic Michiko Kakutani ripped the "ill-conceived and poorly executed book," "one of the ...

Times Just Can't Stand Lou Dobbs' Stand on Illegal Immigration

The Times pursues Lou Dobbs' opposition to illegal immigration as if he was the first journalist to ever make his opinion on an issue clear (although it's an everyday occurrence in the liberal media).

Times Oddly Underwhelmed by Victory of Indian-American in Louisiana

Could it be because Louisiana Governor-Elect Bobby Jindal is a conservative, religious Republican?

Frank Rich's Gestapo Tactics

Plus: Embracing Che Chic and Panicky Pro-Life Christians

Times Cites Vague Pro-SCHIP Poll, Ignores More Factual One Showing Lack of Support

Robert Pear trumpeted a CBS News poll that "found overwhelming support for expansion of the program to include some middle-class uninsured children," ignored a more specific one that showed people ...

Conservative Groups "Packaging 9/11" to Help Bush

Janet Elder claims conservatives are taking advantage of the "murky understanding" of voters who think Saddam was involved in 9-11. But what of the poll showing 1/3 of Democrats think Bush was ...

The Times Finds Media Bias in Lou Dobbs' Excoriation of Illegal Immigration

A selective venture into journalistic fact checking, again starring Lou Dobbs and his "thunderous" opposition to illegal immigration.

Frank Rich's "Gestapo" Tactics

"Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those 'good Germans' who professed ignorance of ...

Audience Likes Bush, Times Amazed - Part XI

"The friendly audience in northwest Arkansas - not a single questioner criticized Mr. Bush - is typical of such let-Bush-be-Bush events...."

Deborah Solomon's Shifty Standards

NYT Magazine's "Q&A" writer not only misleads in the presentation of her interviews but in her politics as well, as shown in her disparate treatment of conservative icon William F. Buckley and ...