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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Big Front-Page Play for Analysis of Chief Justice Roberts' 'Sharp Jolt to the Right'

Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak uncovered "a sharp jolt to the right" under Chief Justice John Roberts, and the Times put his 3,000-word story on the Sunday front page.

The NY Times Runs a (Half) Correction on Matt Bai's Phony Tea Party Racism Charge

The New York Times admits there's no evidence to support reporter Matt Bai's assertion that Tea Party members directed racial slurs at civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis, but still insisted "Tea ...

NY Times Covers for Pro-Rationing Dr. Donald Berwick and His 'Extensive Real World Experience'

New York Times health reporter Robert Pear attempted to dispel Berwick's image as a cost-cutting, ivory-tower intellectual who favors severe health-care rationing, but left off his most direct ...

Times Covers for Pro-Rationing Dr. Donald Berwick and His 'Extensive Real World Experience'

Health reporter Robert Pear attempted to dispel Berwick's image as a cost-cutting, Ivory-tower intellectual who favors severe health-care rationing, but left off his most direct paeans to ...

Times Again Leaves Out Communism in Coverage of Khmer Rouge Atrocities

Seth Mydans' reports from Cambodia on the verdict in the trial of a Khmer Rouge jailer, but fails to explain or even mention the ideology that motivated the Communist group to kill almost two ...

For Times Reporters, Liberal Legislative Failures Mean Government Is 'Dysfunctional' and Paralyzed

Democrat failure to pass expensive "climate change" regulation and unpaid for unempoyment benefits adds up to a "nasty...near paralysis that has infected the Senate despite the Democrats' control ...

The Times Runs a (Half) Correction on Matt Bai's Phony Tea Party Racism Charge

The Times admits there's no evidence that Tea Party members directed racial slurs at civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis, but still insisted "Tea Party supporters have been connected to a number of ...

If It's Sunday...It's a Hysterical Column by Frank Rich Accusing the GOP of Racism

Frank Rich calls the Shirley Sherrod tape fiasco a "new low" in race relations, and repeats the liberal myth of Rep. John Lewis being "pelted with racial epithets while walking past protesters on ...

Now That's Funny: NYT Columnist Accuses Other Media Outlets of 'Tilting the Field'

David Carr, talking about conservative new media...or does he mean the New York Times?: "But what is emerging is more of a permanent crusade, where information is not only power, but a means to a ...

Times Suddenly Concerned About Journalistic Credibility - At Fox News Anyway

Now that's funny. Media reporter Brian Stelter frets about another media outlet's lack of fairness: "But it is an open question whether conservative media outlets risk damage to their credibility ...

Times Treats As Factual Leftwing Veteran Journalist Daniel Schorr's Nazi Smear of Barry Goldwater

A long obituary for lefty journalist Daniel Schorr treats his Nazi smear of Barry Goldwater as good reporting: "Goldwater had held a grudge since 1964, when Mr. Schorr, while at CBS, reported on ...

Times Critic Queasy About Documentary Critical of Zimbabwe's Marxist Dictator Mugabe

Movie critic Mike Hale watches an anti-Mugabe documentary: "It's possible to honor the suffering of [white farmers in Zimbabwe and to revile the actions of the Mugabe government and, at the same ...

Shirley Sherrod Case Puts Focus on Obama and Race

Sheryl Gay Stolberg uses the discussion to praise Obama's "serious and thoughtful effort to address race relations," otherwise known as his politically necessary speech in March 2008 after the ...

Times Continues to Emphasize Angry Opposition to Popular Arizona Immigration Law

James McKinley Jr.: "With just a week remaining before Arizona's stringent new immigration law is set to take effect, a federal judge in Phoenix heard, for the first time, from Obama ...

Times Leads With Rangel's Ethics Woes; Is His Career End Still 'Greatly Exaggerated'?

This headline over a June 7 front-page Times story won't age well after a House panel announces it will investigate a range of ethics charges against veteran Democrat Charles Rangel: "The End for ...

Egan on 'Extreme Politician,' 'Laughable Fool' Sen. Inhofe of Oklahoma

Reporter turned blogger Timothy Egan mocks Sen. James Inhofe for his global warming denialism and for using weather news as predictive of long-term climate trends. But the New York Times has a ...

Reality Check: NYT Implies Fox to Blame for Sherrod, But White House Acted Before Story Ran

Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "The controversy illustrates the influence of right-wing Web sites like the one run by Andrew Breitbart, the blogger who initially posted the misleading and highly edited ...

Let's Pick Another Metaphor, Shall We?

"[Bruce Cumings] mows down a host of myths about the war in his short new book, which is a distillation of his own scholarship and that of many other historians. But he begins by mowing down David ...

'Population Expert' Paul Ehrlich?

An obituary for an alarmist climatologist refers to Erlich, author of the hysterical, now-discredited tome "The Population Bomb," as a population expert. In his 1968 book Ehrlich called for the ...

Double Standards on Dueling Campaign Ads: Katharine Seelye Calls Kristol a Neocon

Katharine Seelye dubiously defends CAIR, while painting Bill Kristol as a neocon puppetmaster whose anti-Sestak ad "serves as a shot across the bow to candidates in other states whom Mr. Kristol ...