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's Rohter Finds Parallel Between Tea Party and Chilean Dictator Gen. Pinochet

Larry Rohter sees a parallel between Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and the Tea Party-Koch brothers: "In Chile the debate about 'No' has also been complicated by noncinematic issues, ...
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New York Times Passes Along 'Endorsement' for Accused Cop-Killer Dorner

Times reporter Adam Nagourney passed along endorsements for Christopher Dornan's worldview: "Yet for whatever changes the department has undergone since the days when it was notorious as an ...
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Corkins, Dorner: Embarrassing Liberal Links to Killers Still Missing From New York Times

A day after the New York Times ignored the connection between Floyd Corkins, who attempted a mass murder at a conservative think tank, and the left-wing "hate group" monitor Southern Poverty ...
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NYT Ignores Leftist Website Connection to FRC Shooter, Yet Suggested Palin Map Inspired Jared Loughner to Kill

Floyd Corkins Jr. pleaded guilty to wounding a security guard at the headquarters of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobbying group fighting against gay marriage. Corkins ...
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The New York Times and National Security Secrets: Obama vs. Bush

News that the New York Times and Washington Post kept secret until recently the secret U.S. drone base in Saudi Arabia is once again raising questions on the paper's politicized double ...
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NYT Ignores Leftist Website Connection to FRC Shooter, Yet Suggested Palin Map Inspired Jared Loughner to Kill

Floyd Corkins Jr. pleaded guilty to wounding a security guard at the headquarters of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobbying group fighting against gay marriage. Corkins ...
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The New York Times and National Security Secrets: Obama vs. Bush

News that the New York Times and Washington Post kept secret until recently the secret U.S. drone base in Saudi Arabia is once again raising questions on the paper's politicized double ...
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New York Times (Gently) Nails Obama's Hypocrisy on Targeted Killings

The New York Times kind of, sort of, accuses Barack Obama of double standards over secrecy in the war on terror: "Early in his first term, President Obama rejected the vehement protests of the ...
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NYT Reporter Kantor Lays Into Justice Sotomayor: 'Homespun Wisdom...Interrupted by Impromptu Applause'

Hard coverage of a Supreme Court justice from Obama biographer Jodi Kantor: "At her Wednesday night book talk here, Justice Sonia Sotomayor glided through her audience of 700, dispensing homespun ...
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Kooky Krugman Calls NRA 'Insane,' Calls for 'Death Panels' to Cut Health-Care Costs

Paul Krugman embraces "death panels" in the name of controlling medical costs? During a Q&A session on his book tour: "So you know the snarky version I use, which is, I shouldn’t even say ...
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NYTimes Skips Benghazi to Laud Hillary Clinton's 'Legacy' and Frequent Flier Miles While Secretary of State

Celebrating Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's "legacy" (but not Benghazi) on Sunday's front page: "As she leaves the State Department, the simplest yardstick for measuring Mrs. Clinton’s ...
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Sunday New York Times Full of 'Far Right' Labels for Congressional Republicans

From Sunday's New York Times. Jeff Zeleny: "The biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges ...
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Sunday New York Times Full of 'Far Right' Labels for Congressional Republicans

Jeff Zeleny: "The biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and ...
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Conservative Republicans Ruining the Comity of the Senate, Chides NYT's Steinhauer

Jennifer Steinhauer: "But Senate Republicans, in particular, who have added more conservative members to their ranks in the last two years, and who fear the constant and imminent threat of ...
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New York Times: Late Ed Koch Fostered Racist Assaults, But 'Redeemed' By...Al Sharpton?

Joseph Berger accuses the late New York City mayor Ed Koch of fostering an atmosphere of white-on-black assaults: "Despite his condemnation of the mob beatings, it was hard to tamp down a sense ...
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New York Times Forwards Helpful Tips on Pushing Immigration 'Reform'

Ashley Parker's cheery piece on immigration "reform" was marked with labeling bias, pitting opponents as "conservatives" and "the right," up against unlabeled supporters of amnesty proposals ...
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Former New York Times Reporter Egan Riles the 'Broadcast Bullies' of the Right Once Again

After bashing the Drudge Report (shocking) Egan, a former reporter for the Times, went through his list of 'fringe,' 'broadcast bullies' on the right: "Over the last year, Limbaugh has lost ...

Second Amendment, Anyone? Mental Illness Registry Just As Alarming as Total Gun Ban, NYT Claims

Really? Erica Goode and Jack Healy of the Times claim: "The [NRA] called for a national registry of people with mental illness -- an alternative that legal experts agree would raise at least as ...
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Survivalists: Paranoid Right-Wingers or Diverse Urbanites? New York Times Can't Decide

Survivalists: Paranoid right-wingers or a shrewd, far-thinking, and diverse urbanites? The New York Times can't decide. Today an editor cited a YouTube video from a left-winger to mock gun-rights ...

New York Times Downplays Bad Economic News, Knocks 'Austerity Efforts'

The economy shrank in the fourth quarter of 2012, and the woes made the New York Times front page, but was not prominently featured (the Washington Post led with the bad news). Though one might ...