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
12/5/2012 3:19 PM ET
The Times' most alarmist climate reporter Justin Gillis strikes again, hyping a left-wing "divestment" movement at a small college in Pennsylvania: "As they consider how to ratchet up their ...
12/5/2012 3:03 PM ET
Conservatives, you say? From Jonathan Weisman's front-page Times story: "Speaker Boehner took as
much fire from conservatives as from Democrats after proposing a
deficit-reduction plan that ...
12/4/2012 4:42 PM ET
On MSNBC's The Ed Show Monday night, Times sports
columnist William Rhoden defended NBC sportscaster Bob Costas'
controversial comments during an NFL broadcast on the
murder-suicide ...
12/4/2012 3:32 PM ET
Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein fids it easy to praise some nuns -- those opposed to the conservative Vatican, that is: "'Love Cannot be Silenced' became an anthem, not just for the
nuns but ...
12/4/2012 1:29 PM ET
From the Times' tag team of global warming advocacy, Justin Gillis and John Broder: "Further increases in carbon dioxide are likely to have a profound effect on
climate, scientists say, leading ...
12/3/2012 3:33 PM ET
New York Times' Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt thinks he may see "the end of the great era of American tax cutting?....I think that if you look at the trends of the last 30 years,
taxes ...
12/3/2012 1:59 PM ET
The Times of London raised fresh questions about New York Times
Company chief executive Mark Thompson’s assertion he knew nothing about a pedophilia scandal involving Jimmy Savile during his ...
12/3/2012 12:03 PM ET
New York Times immigration-beat reporter Julia Preston celebrates with the illegal immigrant "Dreamers" emerging "from the shadows" (once again):"It has been a good year for young immigrants ...
12/3/2012 11:11 AM ET
To get people to stop whining about tax increases, a misleading front-page New York Times headline blares: "Complaints Aside, Most Face Lower Tax Burden Than in the Reagan ’80s." So why does the ...
11/29/2012 4:09 PM ET
What did Mark Thompson, the new NYT Co. chief executive, know about the pedophilia scandal and coverup involving host Jimmy Savile that occurred while Thompson was head of the BBC? And will the ...
11/29/2012 2:49 PM ET
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes celebrated
President George H.W. Bush's 1990 budget deal "achievement" and its "higher revenues" (Calmes favorite euphemism for higher taxes.) ...
11/29/2012 1:39 PM ET
Times intelligence reporter Scott Shane sounds unhappy with GOP criticism of UN ambassador Susan Rice's false statements about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, arguging that "...the four pallid ...
11/28/2012 3:35 PM ET
New York Times story from California-based Adam Nagourney
strongly suggested that tax hikes promoted by Gov. Jerry Brown (and
Nagourney himself) were paying off in economic resurgence in the ...
11/28/2012 2:57 PM ET
Thomas Friedman dismissed the controversy over Susan Rice's false Benghazi statements as a "flap," but fellow Times columnist Maureen Dowd took them seriously: "Why did Rice say on ABC News’s ...
11/27/2012 5:07 PM ET
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni doesn't seem to like
anti-tax activist Grover Norquist: "Someday someone will write a dark
history -- a farce, really -- of how he managed to bring nearly ...
11/27/2012 12:36 PM ET
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni doesn't seem to like anti-tax activist Grover Norquist: "Someday someone will write a dark
history -- a farce, really -- of how he managed to bring nearly ...
11/27/2012 11:28 AM ET
Former Times executive editor Max Frankel: "Finally, when Mikhail Gorbachev
refused to shoot to preserve his costly empire, the curtain collapsed
altogether and dragged down the Soviet center ...
11/26/2012 4:47 PM ET
The Statue of Liberty under water on the front of the New York Times' Sunday Review: "Whether in 50 or 100 or 200 years, there is a good chance New York City will sink beneath the sea." Why? You ...
11/26/2012 2:26 PM ET
Ina front-page story, reporter Jonathan Weisman seems to pine for the days of Democratic congressional barons making rules behind closed doors: "The advent of C-Span 2, which put cameras in the ...
11/26/2012 1:56 PM ET
The New York Times versus free expression on Monday's front page: "Fuming for two months in a jail
cell here, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has had plenty of time to reconsider
the wisdom of making ...