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
7/30/2009 11:11 AM ET
In its latest poll, the Times sees a "strong desire to get something done" on health control - i.e., more government control. But support has been stronger in recent years, and nothing was done. ...
7/28/2009 7:51 PM ET
Randy Cohen loves lawsuits: "We Americans are often mocked for being overly litigious, but we are not nearly litigious enough." New York Times "Ethicist" columnist Randy Cohen
jumped in to the ...
7/28/2009 4:08 PM ET
One headline that will never, ever appear in the Times. But what if you change one word?
7/28/2009 1:59 PM ET
Randy Cohen loves lawsuits: "We Americans are often mocked for being overly litigious, but we are not nearly litigious enough."
7/28/2009 1:11 PM ET
A tough story on liberal Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd is marred by an old problem: Nowhere in the story is Dodd directly indentified as a Democrat.
7/27/2009 3:43 PM ET
Anti-Bush 9-11 "Truthers" get a fair hearing from the NY Times, but anti-Obama "Birthers" are harshly criticized, and Rush Limbaugh is to blame. Brian Stelter's Saturday story questioned those ...
7/27/2009 1:42 PM ET
Does biologist Bill Streever, author of "Cold," a survey of the coldest places on earth, fear global warming? One critic says heck yes, the other says of course not.
7/27/2009 12:29 PM ET
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David Barstow serves up some liberal awards bait: His slanted history of the abortion wars in Wichita, which ended with the murder of partial-birth abortion ...
7/27/2009 11:09 AM ET
And don't forget to blame Rush Limbaugh for spreading the anti-Obama "birther" story.
7/26/2009 9:37 AM ET
Is the Times getting a little sick of seeing Obama all over the place?
7/24/2009 2:00 PM ET
Apocalypse pretty soon thanks to global warming, predicts book critic Dwight Garner: "The end of our species seems far more likely to arrive by fire than by ice."
7/24/2009 12:51 PM ET
In the controversy over Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates's arrest, the Times tries some mind-reading: "In interviews here and in Atlanta, in Web postings and on television talk shows, blacks ...
7/23/2009 2:32 PM ET
Reporter Robert Pear's reality check lacked the passion of campaign-era defenses of Obama on various issues, but at least it was there.
7/23/2009 1:29 PM ET
Obama leaves the door open for middle-class tax hikes to pay for his health-care "reform." But the Times, which jealously defended candidate Obama against tax-raising accusations during, glides ...
7/22/2009 12:49 PM ET
Last month health reporter Kevin Sack wrote: "In their heart of hearts, few in the Obama administration would have predicted late last year that they would be this well positioned by June to ...
7/22/2009 12:36 PM ET
David Leonhardt shares Obama's plans to ration health care in the name of cost-control.
7/21/2009 1:33 PM ET
Israel not giving in to demands for Palestinian statehood quick enough for Times reporter Isabel Kershner.
7/21/2009 11:27 AM ET
Hallelujah! Reporter and reliable first lady hagiographer Rachel Swarns writes: "After several months of focusing on her family, her garden and inspiring young people, Mrs. Obama is stepping into ...
7/21/2009 10:48 AM ET
Does the Times have a weakness for left-wing conspiracy theories? Mike Hale is unable to totally dismiss a TruTV documentary, "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?"
7/21/2009 9:41 AM ET
For the liberals at the Times, everything Sarah Palin does is some kind of joke. But that doesn't mean they have to treat Saturday Night Live skits as fact.
