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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1/9/2013 2:34 PM ET
NYT's Eduardo Porter, who previously covered economics as a reporter for the paper,
showed his mistrust of the market to provide vital services like
adequate health care and pensions, ...
1/9/2013 12:01 PM ET
Reporter Manny Fernandez let his readers know what he really thinks about the Tea Party in Texas: "The far-right agenda of grass-roots and Tea Party activists has
come to dominate the Republican ...
1/8/2013 1:10 PM ET
Double standards on race and religion in the New York Times. The paper's liberal concerns about racism in voting patterns or separation of church and state, so prevalent when discussing white ...
1/8/2013 12:00 PM ET
The Times' defense of Obama nominee Chuck Hagel: "In efforts to spur liberals to
oppose the nomination, Mr. Hagel's critics have also focused on a
comment he made in the late 1990s, opposing a ...
1/7/2013 2:46 PM ET
Reporter Pam Belluck made Saturday's front page
with her slant against the rising pro-life trend of Christian-run
pregnancy centers: "Abortion rights advocates have long called some of their ...
1/7/2013 2:06 PM ET
Supposedly impartial Times science reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal tries to refute the NRA's argument on guns and public safety: "Indeed,
the N.R.A.'s solution to the expansion of gun violence in ...
1/7/2013 1:01 PM ET
New York Times reporter Mark Landler extolled Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton the "role model," for her "indomitable stamina and "herculean work habits," but is concerned that the possible ...
1/4/2013 3:07 PM ET
Former Times reporter Timothy Egan: "A new Congress, sworn in Thursday, will be less crazy than the old one by only a few degrees of wacko. Gone, at least, are a deadbeat dad and a longtime ...
1/4/2013 1:39 PM ET
95% of the House Republican caucus reelected John Boehner as Speaker
of the House on Thursday, but the 12 dissenting Republicans attracted
intense coverage in the New York Times, including a ...
1/3/2013 12:03 PM ET
Monica Davey's front-page New York Times story on rising homicides in Chicago, governed by former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, was suspiciously silent on the utter failure of the city's ...
1/3/2013 11:17 AM ET
New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman can't understand why the House GOP didn't embrace the fiscal cliff agreement, and wonders why they cling to their bizarre opposition to tax hikes on the ...
12/27/2012 9:21 AM ET
2012 was another banner year for bias at the New York Times, from slanted coverage of campaign 2012, to bizarre displays of individual unfairness to conservatives. The Times
also intensified its ...
12/21/2012 11:27 AM ET
The New York Times teased on the front page two profiles
of prominent figures in the gun control debate, "bombastic" conservative David Keene
and compassionate liberal New York City Mayor ...
12/20/2012 12:59 PM ET
Times Paris reporter Scott Sayare nods along with sympathizers of a young Muslim in France who killed seven, including three Jewish children: "He committed the unconscionable, they say, but he was ...
12/20/2012 12:15 PM ET
The New York Times sidled up to criticism of the soft treatment of its new chief exeuctive Mark Thompson, who was
director-general of the BBC when a news investigation into child sex-abuse ...
12/19/2012 2:06 PM ET
A New York Times op-ed offensively marked the appointment of South Carolina Republican Rep. Tim Scott, an African-American, to the U.S. Senate: "...modern black Republicans have been more tokens ...
12/19/2012 12:07 PM ET
What? The Times' East Africa bureau chief Jeffrey Gettleman: "Again, like Israel, Rwanda has succeeded in leveraging the guilt
that other countries feel for not intervening in its genocide -- in ...
12/18/2012 2:49 PM ET
New York Times White House reporter Helene Cooper: "And if killing, you know, twenty 5- to 10-year-olds doesn't do
it for this country, then than means the other conversation we should be
...
12/18/2012 1:51 PM ET
The Times aggressively promoted Democrats exploiting the massacre to push for gun control legislation. "Democrats
seemed to be hoping to seize on the momentum from the shooting, in
which 20 ...
12/17/2012 2:50 PM ET
A front-page story declares Obama has a "mandate" to raise taxes, while John Harwood ponders why stubborn House Republicans can't be more responsible and agree to raise taxes on the so-called ...
