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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9/14/2012 1:29 PM ET
On two occasions, Times columns have ended up in the inboxes of the CIA or the top White House advisor. The paper does not have a formal policy on sharing anarticle for publication.
9/14/2012 12:22 PM ET
New York Times movie critic Jeanette Catsoulis locates an "enemy of progress" in a grandmother who has reservations about the gay lifestyle: "When Mr. Leffew’s magnificently ambivalent father ...
9/13/2012 12:37 PM ET
The headline over Isabel Kershner's story on conservative Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's frosty dealings with Barack Obama: 'Israelis Fear Fallout From Netanyahu’s Blunt Comments." Kershner ...
9/13/2012 11:52 AM ET
Peter Baker and Ashley Parker write: "Already on the defensive for not
mentioning Afghanistan in his convention speech and losing some ground
in recent polls, Mr. Romney saw an opportunity to ...
9/12/2012 3:04 PM ET
Reporter Sabrina Tavernise went back for refills to bolster the nanny state: "But critics say efforts to
influence behavior will have only a modest effect without policy
measures like taxes on ...
9/12/2012 2:26 PM ET
Getting to the left of her paper's editorial page, Times reporter Motoko Rich portrayed the striking Chicago teachers' union as acting on principle: "These
efforts are stirring skepticism and ...
9/12/2012 1:40 PM ET
Ashley Parker puts Mitt Romney on the spot from the beginning of her story from the National Guard convention:"Facing criticism for failing to mention American troops or the Afghan war effort in ...
9/11/2012 3:13 PM ET
James Taranto documented the shifting standards of economist turned partisan hack New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
When it comes to Republican presidents, four years is plenty of time to ...
9/11/2012 1:28 PM ET
The Times gives former reporter Kurt Eichenwald space to blame Bush for "negligence" on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, but fails to bring the evidence: "...the administration’s ...
9/11/2012 12:40 PM ET
There they go again. New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes said speakers at the Democratic convention "sought to counter a Republican convention theme, based on
an Obama quote taken out of ...
9/10/2012 6:44 PM ET
Will the New York Times' new Public Editor spend her term criticizing the paper from the left? Less than a week
after starting, Margaret Sullivan has already hailed the political
wisdom of ...
9/10/2012 3:18 PM ET
Will the New York Times' new Public Editor spend her term criticizing the paper from the left? Less than a week
after starting, Margaret Sullivan has already hailed the political
wisdom of ...
9/7/2012 2:22 PM ET
A New York Times op-ed captures the partisan blindness of the paper on voter ID: "Today’s Republican Party seems
deeply concerned with rooting out voter fraud of the kind Douglass
practiced. ...
9/7/2012 1:03 PM ET
New York Times campaign reporter Trip Gabriel lays out a rocky mountain trail for Paul Ryan: "But his assertion in a radio
interview that he once ran 'a two-hour and 50-something' marathon, a ...
9/6/2012 5:34 PM ET
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, twin citadels of political civility? The New York Times: "In the 45-minute speech, Mr. Clinton paid tribute to a spirit of
bipartisan political cooperation that he ...
9/6/2012 1:49 PM ET
A supposed New York Times fact-checking article on the Democratic convention speeches Wednesday night actually gave Bill Clinton credit for revealing a "startling truth" in his speech: "One of the ...
9/6/2012 12:34 PM ET
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, citadels of political civility? The New York Times: "In the 45-minute speech, Mr. Clinton paid tribute to a spirit of
bipartisan political cooperation that he ...
9/6/2012 11:11 AM ET
While gushing over the prevelance of gay issues at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, reporter Adam Nagourney claimed: "And on Wednesday evening,
Representative Barney Frank, a ...
9/5/2012 3:41 PM ET
Democratic convention keynote speaker Julian Castro not only had a full
story devoted to his speech (coverage denied Republican keynote speaker
Chris Christie) but he was spared the ...
9/5/2012 3:04 PM ET
Amy Chozick goes overboard in praise of Bill Clinton's personal touch: "He likes to use the Zulu greeting sawubona ('I see you') when he
is traveling in parts of southern Africa, and he often ...
