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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1/30/2013 3:11 PM ET
Times reporter Monica Davey glimpses the ineffectiveness of gun control, but sidesteps the obvious conclusion: "And yet Chicago, a city with no civilian gun ranges and bans on
both assault ...
1/30/2013 2:26 PM ET
New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich, who
specializes in profiles of prominent pols, again held back his trademark
irreverence when it came to an easy Democratic target: Vice President
Joe ...
1/29/2013 5:07 PM ET
After five years of ignoring it, the New York Times finally
acknowledged the annual March for Life with a story this year -- only to
bury it on page 9, underneath a story criticizing the ...
1/29/2013 1:12 PM ET
Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren, who has courted controversy
from pro-Israel conservatives during her brief tenure, expressed concern over the muted reception in
Israel to a new ...
1/29/2013 10:38 AM ET
What gall. A Saturday New York Times editorial actually managed to blamed the Republican Party for forcing Obama to violate the constitution: "A Court Upholds Republican Chicanery." The Wall ...
1/29/2013 10:21 AM ET
The New York Times continues to be disturbed by the Supreme Court's Citizens United
decision, loathed by liberals for expanding the right of
corporations to participate in campaign ...
1/28/2013 4:07 PM ET
Between the multiple editorials calling for stricter gun laws and the denunciations of the NRA by its reporters, it's safe to say the urban liberals at the New York Times lack a cultural affinity ...
1/28/2013 8:00 AM ET
After five years of ignoring it, the New York Times finally acknowledged the annual March for Life with a story this year -- only to bury it on page 9, underneath a story criticizing the marchers ...
1/25/2013 3:37 PM ET
UPDATED: The New York Times hasn't printed a story
about March for Life, the annual march against abortion, for the last five years. Will tomorrow's Times carry Ashley Parker's Friday evening ...
1/25/2013 1:19 PM ET
Your media bias laugh of the day: New York Times public
editor Margaret Sullivan claimed "you wouldn't know who" most Times
reporters voted for, on Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe." ...
1/24/2013 2:30 PM ET
Reporter Michael Gordon shows polite skepticism toward Secretary of State Clinton's testimony on Benghazi: "The continuing controversy over the attack, which resulted in
the deaths of Ambassador ...
1/24/2013 1:39 PM ET
"The crimson ideology" of the Kansas GOP? Times reporter John Eligon: "While Republican principles of small government and low taxes have holds
on large swaths of the country, Kansas provides ...
1/24/2013 12:35 PM ET
New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel led with the race issue in
a story of typical partisan politics in Virginia, in his (slightly
outdated) report on a controversial redistricting vote the ...
1/23/2013 3:50 PM ET
Eduardo Porter, business columnist for the New York Times,
previously covered economics as a reporter but now uses his perch to
display his mistrust of free markets in favor of government, ...
1/23/2013 1:37 PM ET
Former Times nightlife reporter Sarah Maslin Nir covered a modest anti-gun protest march over the Brooklyn Bridge and enthusiastically promoted it on her Twitter feed as she covered it, ...
1/23/2013 12:14 PM ET
Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal strikes yet another low blow for Obama, again accusing Republicans of opposing him because of racism: "Along the way, he faced a Republican Party that ...
1/22/2013 4:35 PM ET
The cat's out of the bag: Obama's a liberal. A banner headline across the New York Times front
page confirmed what conservatives have been saying for years: "Obama Offers Liberal Vision: 'We ...
1/22/2013 1:59 PM ET
The New York Times celebrated a new proudly Marxist magazine on the front of the Arts section, as reporter Jennifer Schuessler rejoiced as "A Young Publisher Takes Marx Into the Mainstream." ...
1/22/2013 11:10 AM ET
Times fashion reporter Eric Wilson rapturously reviewed the First Lady's inaugural clothes in the news section, not the fashion pages, of the paper. It was warmly introduced with a front-page ...
1/22/2013 10:44 AM ET
The cat's out of the bag: Obama's a liberal. A banner headline across the Times front
page confirmed what conservatives have been saying for years: "Obama Offers Liberal Vision: 'We Must Act.'" ...