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.

Author Articles

Whitewater Prosecutor Ken Starr, "As Distant a Figure As Nero"

Liberal conventional wisdom on Bill Clinton's Whitewater scandal, in the Travel Section, no less.

Linda Greenhouse Loses Her Abortion Balance

After keeping them under wraps yesterday, Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse discreetly waves her pro-abortion colors in a "news analysis."

"Global Warming" Bias Even Planted in the House & Home Section

"Just how to garden in these erratic times is the subject of 'Gardening in a Changing Climate,' a three-day symposium at the New York Botanical Garden that is open to the public and begins tomorrow."

The Times Embraces One N-Word: "Nationalists"

Don't blame radical Muslims for the execution-style killings of three Christians in Turkey: "Turkish authorities detained five men for questioning, three 19-year-olds and two 20-year-olds; the ...

Still Swerving Around the "Partial-Birth Abortion" Label

The Times avoids the "provocative" (but accurate) label of "partial-birth abortion" in headlines, while fencing the phrase with quotation marks in stories.

"What Opponents of the Procedure Call...."

The procedure that shall not be named: Partial-birth abortion.

Is Gun Control Back in Play? The Times Hopes So

Will the massacre at Virginia Tech cause the Times' hostility toward guns to flame up again?

A Pulitzer Prize for Evasive Reporting?

Andrea Elliott's series on a Brooklyn-based Muslim imam won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing - but suffers from a lack of curiosity about the unflattering sides of its subject matter.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter & Editor Proud to Take Down "Wall of Hatred" Against U.S. Muslims

Andrea Elliott and her editor hope their Pulitzer Prize winning series on a Muslim imam in Brooklyn "helped open...doors" and remove bricks from the "wall of hatred" erected against Muslims in ...

Using Virginia Tech Massacre to Bring Up Gun Control

The mass murder at Virginia Tech leads to talk of gun control.

Times Details Allegations Against Imams - on the Op-ed Page, Anyway

Op-ed contributor James Zumwalt does what the Times hadn't, laying out complaints made by fellow airline passengers of suspicious behavior by six Muslim leaders.

Times' Columnist Attacks "Demonization" of Innocent Duke Players

Was sports columnist Selena Roberts listening?

Paul Krugman Takes on Bushie "Theocrats" and Their "Strategy of Infiltration"

Horrors! "But did you know that Rachel Paulose, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota...is, according to a local news report, in the habit of quoting Bible verses in the office?"

Blaming Bush for U.N. Inaction in Darfur

"But Bush administration officials have promised action before and come up short....Now, more than six months later, there is still no United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur."

On Duke Lacrosse, the Times Has Some Explaining to Do

The Times leads with the exoneration of the Duke lacrosse players - after a year's worth of misleading coverage.

Nagourney to McCain: Don't Mention the War

Adam Nagourney on McCain's pro-war speech at the Virginia Military Institute: "Mr. McCain, a Republican whose presidential candidacy has been shaken by his support of the war...."

Holding a Grudge Against France's Tough-on-Crime Candidate

Reporter Elaine Sciolino again calls tough-on-crime French candidate Nicolas Sarkozy "a man more feared than loved."

Selena Roberts Slurs Innocent Duke Lacrosse Players, Again

Times sports columnist Selena Roberts attacks innocent Duke players with sarcasm and accusations of white privilege: "Don't mess with Duke, though. To shine a light on its integrity has been ...

Adam Nagourney: First Democratic Optimism, then GOP Pessimism

The Times' idea of balance: Both sides think Democrats are in good shape for 2008.

Return of the "-Ic" Factor: Times Relays Another Democrat-ic Whine

"The mid-sentence correction came during a talk to an American Legion post in Fairfax, Va., and immediately brought to mind the recent flap over Mr. Bush's State of the Union address in January, ...