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
5/27/2010 2:34 PM ET
In a front-page Home section story that is the epitome of liberal urban paranoia, the Times links up with the John Birch Society circa 1950s: "Municipal water supplies like New York's are ...
5/27/2010 12:16 PM ET
From reporter Simon Romero, sympathy for recently paroled Lori Berenson, ace baker, music teacher, and unrepentant terrorist helper: "Television crews descended on her neighbors-to-be in Lima, ...
5/26/2010 12:20 PM ET
Legal reporter Charlie Savage: "The legislation is the latest attack on lawyers representing detainees. Although such lawyers have tended to espouse civil libertarian views, some conservative ...
5/26/2010 10:12 AM ET
Nick Bunkley's story on Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former Democratic mayor of Detroit, being sent to prison for five years for violating his probation failed to provide his party ID. By ...
5/26/2010 10:00 AM ET
Whatever happened to the Times' daintiness over sexual allegations involving Democrats like John Edwards? Shaila Dewan barely hedges when reporting claims of an affair between a candidate for ...
5/25/2010 4:46 PM ET
The Times continued to use its front-page real estate to trumpet last week's G.O.P.'s loss in a special House election in Pennsylvania as a warning sign for the 2010 elections, even though the ...
5/25/2010 1:08 PM ET
Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal's front-page fret: "Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on ...
5/25/2010 10:51 AM ET
Peter Baker is the first Times reporter to directly address Sestak's allegations of the White House bribing him to drop out of the Democratic primary, and even raises the hypocrisy angle: "Even if ...
5/25/2010 9:38 AM ET
David Leonhardt brags on Obama, who is on a regulatory roll: "Today, he looks more like a liberal answer to Ronald Reagan." He then blames Reagan for fostering income inequality, and praises Obama ...
5/24/2010 7:48 PM ET
New York Times critic Janet Maslin harshly accused journalist Zev Chafets of exhibiting "Stockholm syndrome" for his failure to lambast Rush Limbaugh in his new biography of the talk radio giant.
5/24/2010 5:01 PM ET
Times political writer John Harwood may have gotten more than he bargained for in an appearance on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC show Morning Joe when he tried to defend Connecticut Attorney General ...
5/24/2010 4:48 PM ET
Clark Hoyt defends the paper's front-page expose on CT Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's fibbing about serving in Vietnam: "In the end, through all the swirling sand the article has kicked up, ...
5/24/2010 4:31 PM ET
Critic Janet Maslin harshly accused journalist Zev Chafets of exhibiting Stockholm syndrome for his failure to lambast Rush Limbaugh in his new biography of the talk radio giant.
5/21/2010 12:28 PM ET
Michael Brick's update from Austin on the ideological fight over Texas textbooks follows the paper's usual pattern of pretending the only ideologues in the fight are "conservative," failing to ...
5/21/2010 10:41 AM ET
Times takes shot at Kentucky primary winner Rand Paul for his views on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and even criticizes him for holding his victory party at a country club.
5/21/2010 9:16 AM ET
First clue: The bong on the front page of the Dining Section:
"Call it haute stoner cuisine."
5/20/2010 2:46 PM ET
Nothing vague about this lead to a front-page story: "Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating...."
5/20/2010 1:34 PM ET
Not much respect for limited government views from reporter David Herszenhorn, as he takes to mocking the Senate Republican leader: "Mr. McConnell's complaint? You guessed it! Government takeover."
5/20/2010 12:34 PM ET
After two full stories on a grand total of nine protesters marching for amnesty for illegal immigrant students, the Times follows up with a pungent editorial on the same lame marches.
5/20/2010 11:20 AM ET
Reporter Kate Zernike last month pigeon-holed the Tea Party movement as "white and male," fueled by anger and memories from a time "when the country was less diverse." This time Zernike actually ...
