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
8/10/2012 1:04 PM ET
New York Times reporter Michael Shear defends Obama's notorious "You didn't build that" remark: "Last month, the outrage was directed at another Romney ad that
took a few lines from Mr. Obama ...
8/10/2012 12:34 PM ET
Mark Bittman, Times food writer and nasty leftist: "The easy solution to that is to make gun purchases more
difficult, especially for disturbed people who appear to think they’re
part of some ...
8/10/2012 10:37 AM ET
Times reporter Jackie Calmes compared the "diversity" of Obama's campaign crowdsderisively against those who come to see Mitt Romney: "About 4,200 people of all ages and colors spread across a ...
8/10/2012 10:03 AM ET
Times' Atlanta bureau Chief Kim Severson visited Charlotte as it prepared for the Democratic National Convention and found "radical evangelical groups" composed of
"conservative Christians" as ...
8/10/2012 7:27 AM ET
Covering Obama in Denver, the Times credited the president's
popularity among women, while the Romney coverage from Iowa emphasized a
controversy in that state: "In Des Moines, Mr. Romney ...
8/9/2012 1:30 PM ET
A National Review writer reports on the backlash to a Times columnist's attack on U.S. Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones, who is a public Christian, a virgin, and fan of the devout Tim Tebow: "As is so ...
8/9/2012 10:15 AM ET
Left-wing Times food writer Mark Bittman was forced to apologize for this callous rant: "Speaking of pigs, the VP of PR for Chick-fil-A dropped
dead of a heart attack the week after the chain’s ...
8/8/2012 4:55 PM ET
New York Times reporter Amy Chozick on Barack Obama, media critic in chief: "But in his informal role as news media critic in chief, he
developed a detailed critique of modern news coverage that ...
8/8/2012 2:49 PM ET
Times reporter Trip Gabriel rides to the defense of the Obama administration: "The speech was part of a coordinated
assault with the Republican National Committee, which sounded the theme
in a ...
8/8/2012 1:41 PM ET
The New York Times finds a way to involve the Tea Party into the murders at a Sikh temple: "One reason for the disarray might
be the growth of a more mainstream movement, the Tea Party, whose ...
8/8/2012 12:54 PM ET
Amy Chozick on Barack Obama, media critic in chief: "But in his informal role as news media critic in chief, he
developed a detailed critique of modern news coverage that he regularly ...
8/7/2012 12:31 PM ET
Left-wing Bill Maher gets more valuable Times space, this time in the Sunday Book Review: "The drug war, just like the war on terror, created jobs and budgets,
and the beneficiaries don’t want ...
8/7/2012 10:49 AM ET
Environmental reporter John Broder sniffs at conservative proposals: "In campaigns past, those complex issues have been reduced to
slogans like “Drill, baby, drill” or simplistic calls to ...
8/7/2012 9:48 AM ET
Former editor in chief Bill Keller uses Mitt Romney's criticism of Obama administration leaks for a cheap shot: "Romney certainly knows something about keeping secrets; there
have been no leaks ...
8/6/2012 2:00 PM ET
Times sportswriter Jere Longman gets nasty: "Jones has received far greater publicity than any other American track
and field athlete competing in the London Games. This was based not on ...
8/6/2012 1:18 PM ET
New York Times reporter John Eligon's story could be the paper's all-time winner as far as labeling
density, with a staggering 36 uses of the word "conservative" in
non-quoted material.
(In ...
7/19/2012 12:24 PM ET
One network -- Fox News -- is on top of Obama administration scandals, while the other networks ignore them. Guess which network Times media reporter Jeremy Peters suggests has a political bias?
7/19/2012 11:12 AM ET
Times political reporter Peter Baker pleads for "proper context" against the "Internet-fueled distortions" of President Obama's politically damaging remark "if you’ve got a business, you didn't ...
7/18/2012 3:26 PM ET
Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit, assures New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman: "President Obama has proposed
allowing tax cuts to lapse on incomes over $250,000, raising the top two
...
7/18/2012 2:12 PM ET
Giving the Obama administration the benefit of the doubt, Times reporter Rebecca Berg paints Obama's weakening of work requirements for welfare as merely allowing "states more latitude in running ...
