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
4/11/2013 1:38 PM ET
The cover story of the upcoming New York Times Sunday magazine is an 8,000-word profile-slash-therapy session for disgraced New York City former congressman Anthony Weiner, he of
explicit ...
4/11/2013 11:43 AM ET
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes, an Obama
fan, at first appeared to criticize his new budget by questioning his liberal – um,
"progressive" – credentials, but only to later ...
4/11/2013 11:18 AM ET
The Times uses odd phrasing to hype the crowd figure for a rally for illegal immigrants in Washington as "several tens of thousands of immigrants," while an editorial headline captures the paper's ...
4/10/2013 1:35 PM ET
The Times hypes prospects for Obama's gun control: "...eking out the first 60 votes would represent momentum for the
bill’s supporters in the Senate, and an egg-on-the-face moment for those
...
4/10/2013 1:01 PM ET
A report on the American Conservative Union by Times reporter Nicholas Confessore -- who previously wrote for the liberal journals Washington Monthly and American Prospect -- was marred by ...
4/10/2013 12:28 PM ET
Gee, thanks for the compliment! Although country singer Brad Paisley is "a stylistically
conservative stalwart," says Times critic Jon Caramanica, "his songs have shown intellectual and social ...
4/9/2013 12:54 PM ET
David Halbfinger basically calls Gov. Christie a bully in a front-page story: "It does not take much for Gov.
Chris Christie of New Jersey to uncork his temper. He has called a Navy
combat ...
4/9/2013 12:01 PM ET
A news analysis upon the death of Margaret Thatcher concludes: "However, there were others, particularly on the political left,
who spoke with bitterness of the vogue that spread across the ...
4/9/2013 11:19 AM ET
The Times celebrates with explicit language "a tiny beacon of sexual health resources at the deeply Catholic institution" -- a condom giveaway program at Boston College. Also, a lead story ...
4/8/2013 2:01 PM ET
Times columnist Frank Bruni goes hunting for the first time and did not wholly approve: "This
country of ours makes it astonishingly easy for people to arm
themselves and take aim. Is it any ...
4/8/2013 1:20 PM ET
Maureen Dowd revved up the Hillary for President bandwagon, while generally mentioning the "darker" side of the former secretary of state. Dowd was more specific back in 1996: "Mrs. Clinton's ...
4/8/2013 11:44 AM ET
Times reporter Matthew Wald dug deep to find a parallel to the dangerous sequestration-related budget cuts: "But some pilots said that in its plans to close the towers, the F.A.A.
was risking ...
4/5/2013 12:09 PM ET
The deck of headlines over Friday's lead New York Times
story illustrated how hard it will
be for conservatives to actually reduce the national debt: "Social
Programs Facing A Cutback In ...
4/5/2013 10:55 AM ET
President Obama causes ruffles on a fundraising jaunt in San Francisco when he said that
state Attorney General Kamala Harris was "by far the best-looking
attorney general in the country." The ...
4/5/2013 10:32 AM ET
The New York Times' most alarmist environmental reporter Justin Gillis offers still more "proof" of a warming planet: "In Sign of Global Warming, 1,600 Years of Ice in Peru’s Andes Melted in 25 ...
4/4/2013 1:25 PM ET
Last month, the Times' alarmist environmental reporter Justin Gillis used a new study to confidently proclaim "Global temperatures are warmer
than at any time in at least 4,000 years...and over ...
4/4/2013 12:12 PM ET
Sheryl Gay Stolberg trumpets the latest Republican to back gay marriage: "As Republican politicians wrestle with same-sex marriage, the daughter
of a party icon -- former President Ronald Reagan ...
4/3/2013 1:10 PM ET
Michael Shear: "But no background check is required for about 40 percent of gun
purchases, including those made online or at gun shows, federal
officials estimate." Wrong, says the Washington ...
4/3/2013 12:43 PM ET
A new Times policy means more use of the politically correct term "undocumented," to refer to illegal immigrants, which Times reporter Ashley Parker has admitted is the preferred term of the ...
4/3/2013 11:42 AM ET
The Times trots out a defense of the indefensible in an Atlanta case of teachers altering government test scores to falsely boost achievement rates of minority students: "Critics said racism was ...
