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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9/23/2009 12:07 PM ET
In Jackie Calmes' slanted take, angry conservatives are unfairly blasting Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa for being too amenable to Obama-care, especially "socially conservative ideologues who have ...
9/22/2009 11:51 AM ET
Science writer John Tierney finds other reasons besides lack of socialized medicine for America's low life expectancy compared to Europe: We used to smoke a lot more, for one.
9/22/2009 9:45 AM ET
Legal reporter Charles Savage breaks it out several times in a story to describe opposition to provisins of the Patriot Act. Savage uncovered no "liberal" opponents but did locate "fierce ...
9/21/2009 2:35 PM ET
Times economics reporter Peter Goodman again laments the American "faith in unfettered markets" and wonders if the country will revert to "Casino America" after the financial crisis recedes.
9/21/2009 1:55 PM ET
Reporter Alan Cowell can't pay tribute to Britain's World War II songstress Vera Lynn without bringing up the war in Afghanistan where Britain is "leeching the lives of the soldiers it sends there."
9/21/2009 12:45 PM ET
Times editor Sam Tanenhaus, author of "The Death of Conservatism," insists to Bill Moyers that the massive protests against Obama may be "overt signs of energy and vitality, but the rigor mortis I ...
9/18/2009 1:08 PM ET
Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times Book Review and Week in Review sections, doesn't so much call the movement dead as try to define it out of existence. But the political landscape ...
9/18/2009 12:19 PM ET
Jackie Calmes' analysis of Sen. Jay Rockefeller's opposition to Sen. Max Baucus's health care proposal has more "liberal" labels than any Times story in memory.
9/18/2009 10:37 AM ET
Reporter Reed Abelson claimed: "Researchers from Harvard Medical School say the lack of coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year in the United States - a toll that is greater than the ...
9/18/2009 10:24 AM ET
From the columnist who argued that Jews had it pretty well in Iran, comes this flowery excuse: "Like many much-conquered countries, not least Italy, Iran loves artifice, the dressing-up of truth ...
9/18/2009 8:34 AM ET
On Wednesday night, NBC Nightly News led with ex-president Jimmy Carter's racism charge against conservative opponents of Obama's agenda. On Thursday morning, the New York Times put Carter's slur ...
9/17/2009 1:15 PM ET
Congressional reporter Carl Hulse sounded impatient with a Republican senator's move to ban the left-wing housing group ACORN from receiving any Interior Department spending: "Not satisfied with ...
9/17/2009 12:05 PM ET
Former Times reporter Timothy Egan is vexed that many middle-class Americans are heeding "the brat's cry of Joe Wilson" and succumbing to "generalized rage" stoked by "well-funded Astroturf outfits."
9/17/2009 10:41 AM ET
Pity our poor president. Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg began their front-page story: "President Obama has long suggested that he would like to move beyond race. The question now is whether the ...
9/16/2009 1:37 PM ET
Craig Whitney tackles the issue of liberally biased reporters in less than concise fashion: "All this is to say that many people in modern American journalism - not all, but many - share a general ...
9/16/2009 12:04 PM ET
Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet sniffs at ACORN and Glenn Beck, and suggests Obama-related scandals aren't big news: "For Glenn Beck to devote 45 minutes of his show to ACORN and Van Jones ...
9/16/2009 11:32 AM ET
Scott Shane overplays the ideological angle, showing "the right" as "gleeful" in claiming its "latest scalp," as opposed to outrage over a tax-funded leftist organization encouraging tax evasion ...
9/15/2009 1:42 PM ET
Human Rights Watch staffer Marc Garlasco, author of many reports hostile to Israel, was suspended after revelations he is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia. The Times portrays Garlasco as a ...
9/15/2009 11:44 AM ET
Maureen Dowd imagines Rep. Joe Wilson shouting a derogatory word at Obama and uses her feverish imagination to slime all South Carolina Republicans as racists: "But, fair or not, what I heard was ...
9/15/2009 10:04 AM ET
Scandals involving child prostitution results in ACORN losing its partnership agreement with the Census Bureau and the Senate cutting off access to federal housing funds. Yet Times reporters have ...
