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.
Author Articles
12/17/2012 1:44 PM ET
The New York Times wasted no time in politicizing Friday's
massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Calls for legislation
permeating the paper's weekend coverage of the ...
12/13/2012 5:15 PM ET
The New York Times ran two stories on the same page of
Thursday's International section that touched on long-running
sex-and-media scandals. But there's one the paper is ignoring that hits ...
12/13/2012 2:02 PM ET
Does reporter Jonathan Weisman think "far right" conservatives should just shut up? "Even before conservatives began speaking out of turn,
pragmatists were pressing the leadership to take up and ...
12/13/2012 12:56 PM ET
New York Times intelligence reporter Scott Shane made the
front page with a quasi-review of "Zero Dark Thirty," the
critically acclaimed new release about the bin Laden raid that suggests ...
12/12/2012 3:20 PM ET
Times reporter Jackie Calmes had the dubious honor of being singled out as a "diligent unbiased reporter" by Norman Ornstein, who coauthored a book blaming Republicans for everything wrong with ...
12/12/2012 1:57 PM ET
Kim Severson is worried about conservative control in North Carolina: "...North Carolina, long a
politically moderate player in the South, will soon have its most conservative government in a ...
12/12/2012 1:22 PM ET
Once again, New York Times reporter Monica Davey covered the successful bid by Michigan Republicans to pass "right to work" legislation, forbidding unions to coerce membership dues from
workers, ...
12/11/2012 3:40 PM ET
Huh? Timothy Egan writes "Conservatives complain about
anti-free-speech vigilantes who keep incendiary voices of the right from
being heard on college campuses, and they have a valid point. ...
12/11/2012 2:17 PM ET
Even as right-to-work legislation makes strides towards passage in labor-friendly Michigan, reporter Monica Davey focused on the losing, pro-union side from the start: "With Democratic furor ...
12/11/2012 12:56 PM ET
Times climate-change reporter John Broder shows his deep respect for dissenting opinionsin a print story and on the paper's Green blog: "Few would compare a United Nations climate change ...
12/10/2012 10:55 PM ET
Dictatorship and double standards invade the New York Times
once again. Check the headline over Dennis Lim's Sunday Arts &
Leisure profileof the director of "Barbara," set in Communist ...
12/10/2012 4:01 PM ET
Dictatorship and double standards invade the New York Times
once again. The Times also ran this jaw-dropping headline over a 2008 book review: "East Germany Had Its Charms, Crushed by ...
12/10/2012 3:28 PM ET
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd riffs on what future archaeologists will make of the lost tribe formerly known as the Republican Party: "Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and ...
12/10/2012 3:03 PM ET
Times reporter Jodi Kantor sketches out the future of Hillary Clinton, "a figure of nearly limitless possibility." Kantor lauded Hillary: "Of all the issues Mrs. Clinton has worked on over the ...
12/7/2012 1:52 PM ET
Well, that's a relief. "President Obama’s insistence that
marginal tax rates rise for families making more than $250,000 has
convinced millions of affluent Americans that they are likely to be ...
12/7/2012 11:57 AM ET
Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer used her full allotment of "conservative" labels describing the shock retirement of Sen. Jim DeMint, while another Steinhauer story condescendingly portrayed the ...
12/7/2012 11:16 AM ET
New York Times reporters Steven Yaccino and Monica Davey sourly greeted landmark conservative legislation from Michigan, running four paragraphs of quotes from the losing side, compared to three ...
12/6/2012 5:16 PM ET
As director general of the BBC, controversial new New York
Times Co. chief executive Mark Thompson "launched a scathing attack on
Rupert Murdoch's media empire, warning that BSkyB [Murdoch's ...
12/6/2012 2:17 PM ET
As director general of the BBC, controversial new New York
Times Co. chief executive Mark Thompson "launched a scathing attack on
Rupert Murdoch's media empire, warning that BSkyB [Murdoch's ...
12/6/2012 10:16 AM ET
Julia Preston identified wholly with a group of young illegals whose goal "is to
build an army of Dream warriors. They had Dream warrior T-shirts, Dream
warrior chants and the prayer of the ...
