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
9/25/2012 1:30 PM ET
New York Times reporter Ashley Parker saw no gaffe or political damage for Barack Obama, merely "talking points" for an attacking Mitt Romney, after the president referred to events in the Middle ...
9/24/2012 3:20 PM ET
Times journalist Somini Sengupta is ambivalent about that whole free expression thing, at least when it comes to other people's speech: "One of the challenges of the digital age, as the YouTube ...
9/24/2012 2:40 PM ET
On taxes, Mitt Romney just can't win: "But forgoing the full deductions
available to him put him at odds with his own past assertions that he
had never paid more taxes than he owed and his ...
9/21/2012 12:59 PM ET
Again the Times focused on the political damage fostered by
Mitt Romney's (accurate) statement at a fundraiser that 47 percent of
Americans do not pay income taxes, yet buried
two ...
9/21/2012 11:23 AM ET
Former New York Times reporter turned editor David Firestone says the stimulus actually worked and you would think so too if not for those meddling Republicans: "Republicans learned a lesson from ...
9/20/2012 2:58 PM ET
The Times gushes over left-wing mag Mother Jones after its anti-Romney hit video: "Through all the political pressures and the challenges facing
the magazine industry, Mother Jones thrived. It ...
9/20/2012 1:21 PM ET
Every edition of the Times provides more evidence how
deeply the leftism of Occupy Wall Street has seeped into its collective
consciousness. This time there was an arbitrary reference to one ...
9/20/2012 12:33 PM ET
Richard Oppel Jr., refusing to concede anything to Mitt Romney, fiercely defends Obama and, using a liberal trope, laments the alleged redistribution of income to the "very rich": "What
is ...
9/19/2012 1:56 PM ET
Michael Barbaro: "Mitt Romney's traveling press
secretary walked to the back of the candidate’s plane midflight on
Tuesday and teasingly asked a pair of journalists in an exit row if they
...
9/19/2012 1:36 PM ET
Times reporters Annie Lowrey and Michael Cooper don't seem to appreciate the arguments of "conservative firebrand" Erick Erickson: "Last year, Erick Erickson, the
conservative firebrand, started ...
9/19/2012 12:23 PM ET
Sarah Wheaton wrote: "Just hours after Mitt Romney struggled to explain a blunt cultural
assessment revealed in a leaked video from a private fund-raiser,
footage of an equally blunt foreign ...
9/19/2012 12:01 PM ET
TimesCast host Megan Liberman: "...is this video really as devastating as a lot of people on both the right and the left are saying that it is?....[the clip] seems to feed perfectly into the ...
9/18/2012 6:02 PM ET
The New York Times' Michael Shear and Michael Barbaro suggest a
secretly recorded video of Romney at a fundraiser makes him an uncaring
person: "Now, the video has raised the possibility that ...
9/18/2012 3:06 PM ET
Jennifer Steinhauer and Jonathan Weisman: "Partisan obstreperousness, the force that propelled Congressional
Republicans to widespread victory in 2010, is suddenly for many of them
as out of ...
9/18/2012 2:15 PM ET
Times journalist David Kirkpatrick makes free expression sound like a bad idea: "In a context where insults to
religion are crimes and the state has tightly controlled almost all
media, many ...
9/18/2012 1:32 PM ET
The New York Times' Michael Shear and Michael Barbaro suggest a secretly recorded video of Romney at a fundraiser makes him an uncaring person: "Now, the video has raised the possibility that Mr. ...
9/17/2012 2:13 PM ET
Times reporter Colin Moynihan: "In the weeks that followed, a
signature phrase used by the protesters to refer to themselves, 'the 99
percent,' became part of the political lexicon, and the ...
9/17/2012 1:25 PM ET
Sunday's New York Times front page: "Challenged on Medicare, G.O.P. Loses Ground." Saturday's front page: "Poll Finds Obama Is Erasing Romney's Edge on Economy." Buried fact: Obama is only up by ...
9/17/2012 10:39 AM ET
Times reporter John Eligon: "This challenge to Mr. Obama comes
in a state where the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, is heavily
favored, and where the electorate has shifted sharply to the ...
9/14/2012 2:56 PM ET
The New York Times lets Obama play tough in a front-page story, but skips the attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen, which the Washington Post fronts. From the Times: "The president was not happy; ...
