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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1/21/2013 3:10 PM ET
Ouch! New York Times reporter Fernanda Santos on Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer: "she was repeatedly called 'compassionate,' not a word often used to describe her." Santos also called two groups ...
1/21/2013 1:32 PM ET
A tale of presidential inaugurations during wartime and strife. In 2005, the year of President George W. Bush's second inauguration, the New York Times was "question[ing] the propriety of a lavish ...
1/18/2013 1:56 PM ET
The latest New York Times poll, focused on gun
control, showed gains for stricter gun laws and (coincidentally?) made
the front page of the national edition. But
the paper buried findings in ...
1/18/2013 12:31 PM ET
The Times' Michael Cooper reported from the U.S.
Conference of Mayors meeting, capturing the effusive
reaction to President Obama's gun-control proposals. Cooper came off less a hard-bitten ...
1/17/2013 2:58 PM ET
Times movie critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis ruin more movies with Obama-obsessed politicization: "Movie audiences tend to prefer symbolic, fantastical wars, with
intergalactic robots (in ...
1/17/2013 1:56 PM ET
New York Times reporter Michael Shear on the NRA's video accusing Obama of hypocrisy on guns in schools: "The
video also prompted commentary on social media about whether the gun
rights ...
1/16/2013 2:59 PM ET
NYT's Peter Baker dredges up an unfair accusation against Sarah Palin: "The use of gun symbolism has at
times provoked controversy. After Representative Gabrielle Giffords of
Arizona was shot ...
1/16/2013 12:14 PM ET
The New York Times continued to push its pet cause of
immigration "reform," involving mass amnesty for illegals in the United
States. In a twist, immigration reporter Julia Preston reported ...
1/15/2013 3:06 PM ET
Political reporter Jim Rutenberg, along with his headline writer, threw
around the loaded term "neoconservative," a term most often used as an
insult by leftists and the media, in his Sunday ...
1/15/2013 2:00 PM ET
Humorless New York Times columnist-economist attacked as lazy
and unprofessional the host of The Daily Show for daring to mock the
trillion-dollar platinum coin as a solution to the debt ...
1/15/2013 12:11 PM ET
Oh, no, frackers, it's Yoko Ono: The New York Times made much of two tiny local liberal
protests over the weekend, one at a New York State gun show, the other
in the state capital protesting ...
1/14/2013 3:43 PM ET
Former New York Times executive editor (now op-ed columnist)
Bill Keller on Monday addressed the controversial publication of a map showing
the names and addresses of handgun permit ...
1/14/2013 2:19 PM ET
Sunday's New York Times lead story on immigration was a strange choice, unless you remembered how the Times has long been pushing for immigration "reform" that would include amnesty for illegal ...
1/14/2013 1:17 PM ET
Steven Greenhouse depends solely on left-wing economists to make his case for reviving the economy: "Jared Bernstein, who served in the Obama
administration...said many steps should be taken to ...
1/11/2013 4:55 PM ET
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, keeping things civil: "Republicans go wild at this
analogy, but it’s unavoidable. This is exactly like someone walking into
a crowded room, announcing ...
1/11/2013 1:35 PM ET
Paul Krugman, keeping things civil: "Republicans go wild at this
analogy, but it’s unavoidable. This is exactly like someone walking into
a crowded room, announcing that he has a bomb strapped ...
1/11/2013 10:29 AM ET
Times journalist Megan Liberman packed three different liberal immigration
cliches into one sentence: "This year's debate will feature a
relatively new voice: undocumented immigrants who are ...
1/10/2013 3:00 PM ET
Sabrina Tavernise equates the U.S. death toll from gun violence and car wrecks to...a "fragmented health care system"? "Younger Americans die earlier and live in
poorer health than their ...
1/10/2013 1:43 PM ET
More of that tough investigative journalism the New York Times is known for: "Mr. Hagel learned to get along as an easy charmer and prodigious
but affable self-promoter. He is well-liked by ...
1/10/2013 12:30 PM ET
Times reporter Annie Lowrey sneaked in a liberal policy proposal in her analysis of alleged gender bias inside the White House: "Experts said that family-friendly policies, like paid maternity ...
