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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NYT Style Mag 'T' Treats Julian Assange As Pop Icon, Purveyor of Truths

A writer for the Times' style magazine credits Julian Assange with giving "The Gift of Information" this Christmas season: "In contrast to the petabytes of data flotsam, half-truths and ...

Frank Rich: 'Stockholm Syndrome' Explains Obama's Post-Election Lethargy

Sunday columnist Frank Rich displays his usual firm grasp of common sense and civility: "Those desperate to decipher the baffling Obama presidency could do worse than consult an article titled ...

Editor Sam Tanenhaus 'Weasels' Out of Reviewing Book Critical of Paper

Author William McGowan and Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus had a revealing email exchange recently over the prospects of the New York Times reviewing McGowan's new book "Gray Lady Down ...

No Class: Times A Little Too Cheery Over Tragedies in an Idyllic Disney Town

Kim Severson's thousand-word story showed tasteless excitement over the news that tragedy has infiltrated the wealthy paradise of Celebration, Fla., a town built by the Walt Disney Co.: "As if the ...

Times Cheers Schumer's 'Millionaire's Tax' Formula After Despising GOP's 'Death Tax'

Jennifer Steinhauer greets Sen. Chuck Schumer's tax-cut word games with approval. Yet the Times loathed what it considered the unfair and misleading Republican phrase "death tax" to describe the ...

'Renewed Partisan Fury' Unleashed by GOP on Capitol Hill

Republicans are already killing compromise on Capitol Hill: "Not even 24 hours after President Obama met with senior Republican Congressional leaders and expressed hopes for a 'new dialogue,' ...

Tom Friedman Mocks U.S. Concern Over Civil Liberties in Latest Paean to Beijing

Again praising China, Thomas Friedman mocks American concern for civil liberties: "They fight over things like - we are not making this up - how and where an airport security officer can touch them."

NYT Already Pushing 'Entrapment' Defense in Case of Islamic Would-Be Christmas Tree Bomber

The Times is already pushing the "entrapment" defense in the case of the Portland Christmas-tree bomber, sympathizing with local Muslims in opposition to the anti-terror investigation. And after ...

Step Aside, McCain: The Times Hails Its Newest Republican 'Maverick,' Sen. Lugar

Jennifer Steinhauer hails the newest revered Republican "maverick," Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, for bucking the GOP and helping Obama on some issues: "Mavericks are not in vogue these days on ...

In Confrontations With Muslim World, Neil MacFarquhar Again Blames U.S. First

Strained relations with the Muslim world? Blame the United States, says UN Bureau Chief Neil MacFarquhar: "The problem, which 'Arab Voices' persuasively illustrates, is that Americans tend to ...

Terrorist Helper Lori Berenson, a Mere 'Outcast' Guilty of 'Youthful Outburst' and Past 'Mistakes'?

Simon Romero excuses terrorist helper Lori Berenson's "youthful outburst" of support of the Marxist terrorists of Peru's MRTA (she was 26) and wonders why the people of Peru, who suffered mightily ...

Frank Rich's Latest Excruciating Extended Metaphor: 'Wall Street Would be the Bachelor, and America the Dwarf...'

Frank Rich's unleashes his latest painful cultural-political metaphor: "If this were a metaphor - if only! - Wall Street would be the bachelor, and America the dwarf, involuntarily chained to its ...

NY Times Preens Over Publishing Stolen Cables, But Was Snooty Over Swiped Climate-Gate Email

NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller on why the Times published confidential diplomatic cables obtained illegally by WikiLeaks: "For The Times to ignore this material would be to deny its own readers ...

Times Preens Over Publishing Stolen Cables, But Was Snooty Over Swiped Climate-Gate Email

Executive Editor Bill Keller on why the Times published confidential diplomatic cables obtained illegally by Wikileaks: "For The Times to ignore this material would be to deny its own readers the ...

Michael Luo Notices Media Matters' Left-Wing Fundraising Drive, Leaves Out the Melodrama

After spending the 2010 campaign worrying over the scourge of anonymous deep-pocketed conservative donors out to buy the election, reporter Michael Luo offered a look at a new outlet for left-wing ...

Times Reporters, Editors Defend Earmarks With Democratic Talking Points

Times editors and reporters continues to ignore arguments that make earmark reform look necessary, while harping on the Democratic talking point that earmarks amount to less than one percent of ...

Krugman Crowns Alan Simpson the Epitome of Evil, Fears for American 'Blood Bath'

Paul Krugman's taking opposition to deficit spending quite hard: "It's hard to see how this situation is resolved without a major crisis of some kind. [Former Sen. Alan] Simpson may or may not get ...

Surprise: A Long, Respectful Profile of Sarah Palin in the New York Times Magazine

Times Magazine writer Robert Draper provides some context to the media's anti-Palin caricature: "The caricature of Palin as a vapid, winking, press-averse clotheshorse proved irresistible to ...

Zernike Claims Her Slanted Tea Party Book Was 'as Objective as Possible a Look'

Kate Zernike says she tried to be objective in "Boiling Mad," her book about the Tea Party: "I've just written this book that very consciously tried to come up through the middle...there was merit ...

Calmes Complains GOP Didn't Sufficiently 'Accommodate' Obama by Passing Liberal Laws During Time of National Crisis

Jackie Calmes, impatient with Republicans for not sufficiently accommodating Obama during a time of national crisis (i.e. early in his presidency): "I'm going to go out on a limb, at the risk of ...