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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10/13/2010 8:39 AM ET
New York Times reporter David Herszenhorn finds anger and voter ignorance at only one end of the political spectrum, and has time for a fact-check of conservative claims: "The voters of ...
10/12/2010 12:17 PM ET
Reporter David Herszenhorn finds anger and voter ignorance at only one end of the political spectrum, and has time for a fact-check of conservative claims: "The voters of Pennsylvania are angry at ...
10/11/2010 3:45 PM ET
Two reporters file separate stories dismissing the import of a left-wing attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for allegedly allowing foreign money to be used in U.S. elections, with one ...
10/11/2010 1:24 PM ET
The Times ironically accuses anti-Islamic blogger Pamela Geller for having "quoted selectively" the controversial imam, and accuse her of spreading "misimpressions that the project was at the ...
10/11/2010 12:38 PM ET
Blogger Mickey Kaus undermines the Times' grand theory on conservative commentator Ann Coulter "trotting out a new image", saying it "might strike some as a sleazy and condescending attempt to ...
10/8/2010 6:44 PM ET
New York Times Magazine contributor James Traub on the Tea Party candidates: "But it also strikes me that there's a kind of war on competence and professionalism going on here. And these insurgent ...
10/8/2010 1:15 PM ET
New York Times Magazine contributor James Traub on the Tea Party candidates: "But it also strikes me that there's a kind of war on competence and professionalism going on here. And these insurgent ...
10/8/2010 10:53 AM ET
Michael Luo's wink-wink, nudge-nudge on the rush of campaign spending from corporations currently benefiting Republican issues and candidates: "It remains to be seen whether the I.R.S. or the ...
10/7/2010 1:34 PM ET
"Flood of Campaign Cash Becomes the Issue," reads the Times online headline over a Michael Shear story. And just how did it "become the issue"? Because the Times and the Democrats want it to be ...
10/7/2010 12:44 PM ET
Kirk Johnson on the Democrats' bringing up "wedge issue" like abortion to keep Democratic voters on their side come November: "But whether Mr. Buck is out of touch, or exactly in touch with his ...
10/7/2010 11:37 AM ET
The Times supports the First Amendment rights of the despicable "God Hates Fags" funeral picketers, led by Fred Phelps, but other kinds of free speech like campaign advertising by corporations are ...
10/6/2010 1:03 PM ET
Times economics writer David Leonhardt reacted to news that McDonald's may drop health insurance for its workers because of Obama-care by blaming the status quo: "...it does represent progress. ...
10/6/2010 11:24 AM ET
Rep. Grayson has accused the Republicans of wanting sick people to die quickly and compared them to Neanderthals and the Taliban. But you wouldn't get a hint of that from the Times' awkward, ...
10/5/2010 12:43 PM ET
Reporter Jeremy Peters pens a wholly positive story on the symbiotic relationship between local newspapers and medical marijuana dealerships: "...in states like Colorado, California and Montana ...
10/5/2010 10:28 AM ET
Jeremy Peters celebrates Obama confidante and former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and barely mentions why she was forced out: "During her 15-month stay in Washington, Ms. Rogers ...
10/5/2010 9:59 AM ET
Columnist Paul Krugman brings up a racist movie in his snide note to the Tea Party movement: "A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you're ...
10/4/2010 2:49 PM ET
In California, reporter Adam Nagourney forwards phony Democratic concerns over a former illegal immigrant housekeeper employed by Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman: "The episode has ...
10/4/2010 2:16 PM ET
Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike on the Tea Party canon, including Friedrich Hayek, a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1974 who died in 1992: "But when it comes to ideology, it has reached back ...
10/4/2010 12:13 PM ET
Even more ill-humored than usual, the Times' Sunday columnist rails against Christine O'Donnell, Michael Steele and the rest of the "useful idiots" in a Republican Party that routinely demonizes ...
10/4/2010 11:13 AM ET
Labor reporter Steven Greenhouse led his story on the left-wing "One Nation" rally with a specific and generous crowd estimate. Yet the Times didn't get into specifics when it came to far larger ...