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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Double Standards on Mortgage Defaulters

Times reporter David Streitfeld covers mortgage defaulters on varying ends of the income spectrum, but only lectures "the rich" ones on the "civic good."

GOP to Blame for Obama's Lousy Economy, Says Former Reporter

Blame Republicans for Obama's stalled-out economy, says former reporter Timothy Egan: "The Republican governing philosophy of a criminal deregulatory environment drove the economy into a ditch. ...

NYT's Coverage of 'Sweeping Exoneration' of Climategate Scientist Actually Better Than Expected

Justin Gillis improves on his last article on the "exoneration" of a Climategate scientist, explaining how the latest slanted report nonetheless found global warming's infamous "hockey stick" ...

Hammering Away at 'Conservative' Involvement in Pushing Voter Intimidation Case

Legal reporter Charlie Savage leaned heavily on the conservative politics of those pushing charges of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party at a polling place, and accusing Obama's ...

Conservative Rep. Darrell Issa, a 'Nuisance' and a 'Pest'

Political personality reporter Mark Leibovich on Rep. Darrell Issa: "Every Congress seems to produce a designated pest, adept at drawing attention to nuisance issues (and his nuisance self) while ...

The NYT's 'The Ethicist' Columnist Again Pushes Politics: Only Dishonorable People Oppose Gay Marriage?

"Ethicist" columnist Randy Cohen unleashes his leftism again, this time on opposition to gay marriage: "It is not only Jews who should repudiate anti-Semitism or African-Americans who should ...

David Brooks vs. Paul Krugman, Round 2?

Is columnist David Brooks calling out fellow columnist Paul Krugman, a supporter of more economic "stimulus"? These Demand Siders have very high I.Q.'s, but they seem to be strangers to doubt and ...

Times Loses Its Distaste for Religion As Houston Churches Push Amnesty for Illegals

Reporter James McKinley Jr. didn't find any pro-amnesty liberals, but managed to identify opponents of immigration reform as conservative and right-wing: "Many clergy members say they face an ...

The Times Celebrates Its Latest Conservative 'Maverick,' Sen. Lindsay Graham

Robert Draper files another long, condescending Sunday Magazine profile on the conservative movement and its "quisling," Sen. Lindsay Graham of "bloodred" South Carolina.

Academics Close Ranks Around 'Climategate,' NYT Goes Along

What reporter Justin Gillis thinks about Climategate: "An American scientist accused of manipulating research findings on climate science was cleared of that charge by his university on Thursday, ...

How's the Republican Party Doing? Frank Rich Cites 'Extremism,' 'Nihilism,' Racism, Return to John Birch Values

Frank Rich discusses the Republican Party's "extremism" and "race problem" with sympathetic MSNBC host Rachel Maddow: "...they have this sort of reversion to this extreme fiscal conservatism of ...

The NYT's Skewed View: Liberal Newsweek 'Strives to Be Apolitical," Far-Left Daily Kos Just a 'Political Blog'

Two stories in Thursday's New York Times featured the paper avoiding pinning ideological labels on two liberal media organs: the magazine Newsweek and the blog Daily Kos. Reporter Jeremy Peters ...

Kagan Triumphant: 'Some Republicans See Her Confirmation to the Supreme Court As All but Assured'

All hail Kagan! Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Charlie Savage: "But try as they might, Republicans could not knock Solicitor General Elena Kagan off her stride. And as her second day of questioning by ...

Newsweek 'Strives to Be Apolitical'? Since When?

Reporter Jeremy Peters only sees ideology in one direction in a story on suitors for the failing newsweekly: "The conservative political ideology of Newsmax's chief executive, Christopher Ruddy, ...

Far-Left Daily Kos Just a 'Political Blog' at the Times

Joseph Plambeck never reveals precisely what sort of "political blog" Daily Kos is: "Mr. Moulitsas said that because of his blog's success, there are other polling organizations willing to work ...

Libs In Space!

Leave it to the New York Times to put an unnecessarily partisan anti-Bush spin on, of all things, space policy: "The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a space policy that renounces the ...

From Congo to Cancer, Cell Phones Are Killing Machines, Sunday Columnists Argue

"Death By Gadget." Times columnists Nicholas Kristof and Maureen Dowd embrace different variations of cell phone fear.

Another Day, Another Front-Page Attack on Government Spending 'Austerity'

The paper's neo-liberal economic conscience found criticism of massive government spending by laissez-faire economists [and] Congressional Republicans, distressing, lamenting: They're able to ...

The Times Predicts 'Bloody' Results After Gun Rights Victory

A Times editorial assures readers "the Supreme Court disregarded the plain words of the Second Amendment" in a court decision upholding an individual right to keep and bear arms, and predicts the ...

From Krugman's Column to the Front Page: Ireland's 'Austerity' Is Killing the Recovery

Liz Alderman wonders why Europe won't listen to Obama's wisdom: "The Group of 20 leaders [are] vowing to make deficit reduction the top priority despite warnings from President Obama that too much ...