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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1/27/2010 5:31 PM ET
When the ACORN scandal broke, the New York Times dragged its feet six days before issuing a story on footage from James O'Keefe showing the left-wing group giving advice to a "prostitute" and ...
1/27/2010 2:42 PM ET
When the ACORN scandal broke, the Times dragged its feet for six days before issuing a story on the devastating footage from conservative activist James O'Keefe, who caught on video the left-wing ...
1/27/2010 11:28 AM ET
On the eve of President Obama's first State of the Union, Jackie Calmes' front-page story credulously focuses on Obama's sudden pivot to deficit hawk without once mentioning the probable cause of ...
1/26/2010 2:26 PM ET
Monica Davey lays out the Tea Party/conservative case against Mark Kirk, a moderate Republican Senate candidate in Illinois. Will the movement's assumed threat to establishment Republicans ...
1/26/2010 2:14 PM ET
Legal reporter Adam Liptak lauds Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who holds down the far left of the Supreme Court: "In cases involving prisoners held without charge at Guantánamo Bay and ...
1/26/2010 12:26 PM ET
Reporter Ian Urbina gripes about state-level inconveniences resulting from the Supreme Court's ruling expanding free speech during political campaigns, while reporter David Kirkpatrick ...
1/25/2010 5:52 PM ET
Two front-page New York Times stories suggest (hope?) the Tea Party movement may turn on the G.O.P.: "But the deeper intramural divisions are within the Republican Party, a sign of the intensity ...
1/25/2010 1:17 PM ET
A front-page story suggests (hopes?) that the Tea Party movement may turn on the G.O.P.: "But the deeper intramural divisions are within the Republican Party, a sign of the intensity and ...
1/25/2010 11:30 AM ET
Columnist Charles Blow has his usual thoughtful take on the Mass. Senate race won by Republican Scott Brown: "Welcome to the mob: an angry, wounded electorate, riled by recession, careening across ...
1/25/2010 10:53 AM ET
Strangely, Ted Kennedy is not mentioned in a story about sexism in Mass. politics. Reporter Katie Zezima instead wonders if Mass. voters knew Martha Coakley was a woman, since she "never mentioned ...
1/25/2010 10:19 AM ET
MSNBC host and NYT contributor John Harwood interviews influential Sunday section editor Sam Tanenhaus about the Republican win in Massachusetts and jests about the title of Tanenhaus's recent ...
1/22/2010 12:59 PM ET
Irony or hypocrisy? A lead editorial in the nation's premier newspaper condemns a free speech victory in the Supreme Court as a "radical decision, which strikes at the heart of democracy."
1/22/2010 11:14 AM ET
So much for the First Amendment victory on campaign spending granted by the Supreme Court. A front-page headline focuses on fear of sleazy politics (aka democracy in action): "Lobbies' New Power: ...
1/22/2010 10:34 AM ET
The nation's leading newspaper would of course celebrate a First Amendment victory at the Supreme Court, right? Well, not exactly. Front-page headline: "Dissenters Argue That Ruling Will Corrupt ...
1/22/2010 10:03 AM ET
Sure: "Kasey is 10 years old. When the New Jersey State Senate voted against same-sex marriage on Jan. 7, he was devastated."
1/22/2010 9:19 AM ET
Paul Krugman feels forsaken by The One: "But I have to say, I'm pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready ...
1/21/2010 2:38 PM ET
The Times points out four gaffes made by Democrat Martha Coakley during her losing campaign to Republican Scott Brown. So why didn't the Times mention them during the actual campaign?
1/21/2010 12:21 PM ET
Congressional reporter Carl Hulse sees the bright side for the Democrats, who just might turn this crushing defeat into an eventual victory: "Amid the day's gloom, Democrats saw opportunity as ...
1/21/2010 11:15 AM ET
Don't blame Obama - all these Democratic losses are just about state issues: "The voters of Massachusetts were definitely angry about taxes, although the ones they seemed most ticked off about ...
1/21/2010 10:49 AM ET
The paper's political profile writer Mark Leibovichmaintains his usual pro-Democratic double standard: "[Scott Brown] strives for 'total discipline' but can be prone to curious public statements ...
