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
10/5/2012 2:10 PM ET
New York Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt: "After a lackluster debate,
President Obama faced the prospect of a second piece of bad political
news with Friday morning’s jobs ...
10/5/2012 12:40 PM ET
Jennifer Steinhauer brings bad tidings for several Tea Party candidates in November due to their "incendiary statements": "[Iowa Rep. Steve] King’s troubles underscore the liability of a national ...
10/5/2012 11:11 AM ET
Nicholas Kristof's childish liberalism: "Imagine a kindergarten with 100 students, lavishly supplied with books, crayons and toys. Yet
you gasp: one avaricious little boy is jealously guarding a ...
10/4/2012 1:21 PM ET
In a bit of a surprise, the New York Times filed an article on a recently unearthed Obama
video from 2007 showing the president in a fiery, racially charged mode, praising his anti-American ...
10/4/2012 10:47 AM ET
The first Obama-Romney presidential debate ran under less-than-informative headlines in the New York Times: "Obama and Romney, in First Debate, Spar Over Fixing the Economy'; "Feel of Seminar as ...
10/3/2012 1:39 PM ET
Campaign reporter Trip Gabriel makes excuses for Joe Biden's "middle class" flub: "A stray sentence by
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Tuesday became the latest remark
seized by the ...
10/3/2012 1:19 PM ET
Defending Obama in a pre-debate pre-fact-check:"Nonpartisan analysts agree that Mr. Obama inherited a bad hand:
the 2009 deficit was a projected $1.2 trillion when he took office
because of ...
10/3/2012 12:01 PM ET
New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman celebrates "North Dakota nice" when it may help Democrats retain the U.S. Senate: "Though North Dakota is deeply
conservative and is on no one’s ...
10/2/2012 1:22 PM ET
More of that hard-hitting New York Times journalism. Joyce Purnick praised Michelle Obama's "bare, toned, elegant arms," while Stuart Emmerich focused the fact that "Barack Obama
shirtless" gets ...
10/2/2012 12:47 PM ET
Not if the media has anything to say about it: New York Times reporter Scott Shane insisted "the deaths of American diplomats in Libya are not a continuing crisis."
10/2/2012 11:56 AM ET
Mark Lilla in the cover story for the New York Times Book Review: "Whenever conservatives talk to me about Barack Obama, I always
feel quite certain that they mean something else. But what ...
10/1/2012 7:34 PM ET
New York Times media reporter David Carr denies a "partisan conspiracy"
on the part of the press (which no one is suggesting), but fails to
truly defend his colleagues against the charge of ...
10/1/2012 3:35 PM ET
Does this sound like a "conservative" to you? "Social conservatives’ hostility
to the health care act is a natural corollary to their broader agenda of
controlling women’s bodies. These are ...
10/1/2012 1:18 PM ET
New York Times movie critic A.O.Scott elevates criminal vandalism of a subway poster put up by "extremist" Pamela Geller to "free expression" and "democracy":"It might not be something that's ...
10/1/2012 11:59 AM ET
Times media reporter David Carr denies a "partisan conspiracy" on the part of the press (which no one is suggesting), but fails to truly defend his colleagues against the charge of liberal bias, ...
9/28/2012 4:06 PM ET
The paper's Romney campaign reporter Ashley Parker at it again: "But the ad came nine days after the video surfaced, a period in
which Democrats have bashed Mr. Romney over the remarks, leaving ...
9/28/2012 2:22 PM ET
The New York Times liberal movie critic A.O. Scott predictably dislikes "Don't Back Down," which is critical of teachers' unions, seeing in it "a political agenda in overdrive." Yet a review of an ...
9/26/2012 2:38 PM ET
As usual, Times White House correspondent Jackie Calmes waved the deficit blame away from Obama, and clung to the dubious idea that Obama-care would actually reduce the deficit. "The fiscal ...
9/26/2012 1:52 PM ET
Hypocrisy alert: Times writer Ginia Bellafante laments the lack of a pop culture backlash to the "moral vacuity" of "the moneyed class," while her paper panders to that same moneyed class with ...
9/25/2012 2:16 PM ET
Times media reporter Jeremy Peters: "Independent groups have long been the attack dogs and provocateurs of modern
politics. The ads they produce -- about a convict on furlough named
Willie ...
