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
5/4/2009 12:23 PM ET
Times reporters like Jodi Kantor continue to push the soothing idea that President Obama won't appoint liberals to the Supreme Court, just "pragmatists" like him.
4/23/2009 2:01 PM ET
Plus: Making Fun of Republicans Like Mocking the Mentally Ill
4/23/2009 12:47 PM ET
Talking about the history of harsh interrogiation tactics, the Times is suddenly employing "Chinese Communists" as a pejorative and calling Communist Khmer Rouge genocidist Pol Pot a "despot." ...
4/22/2009 12:34 PM ET
The paper relegated its hit Tuesday nytimes.com story, indicating harsh interrogation methods had proven effective in understanding Al Qaeda, to five paragraphs of a separate story in Wednesday's ...
4/22/2009 10:17 AM ET
Reporter Ashley Parker certainly did a great job making Barack Obama look compassionate. Did Bush ever get the same treatment from the Times?
4/21/2009 1:52 PM ET
An article by Michael Powell awards the contested Minnesota Senate seat to Al Franken and revels in the anti-Republican wit of liberal Rep. Barney Frank.
4/21/2009 1:43 PM ET
What? "To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush's Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity. Their language is the precise ...
4/21/2009 12:19 PM ET
"In the 1950s and '60s, under Ralph McGill, The Atlanta Constitution infuriated conservative white readers with its liberal views, especially on segregation. Cynthia Tucker, the editorial page ...
4/21/2009 12:18 PM ET
Bleech: "Leaders from the Western Hemisphere, inspired by a new American president, closed a two-day summit meeting proclaiming a new dawn for relations in the region..."
4/21/2009 11:49 AM ET
Blow defends a notorious Department of Homeland Security report tarring anyone active in conservative causes like abortion or immigration as potential extremists.
4/20/2009 3:38 PM ET
For Araton, it's necessary for athletes and athletic commentators to speak out on public issues - unless it's for a cause that's not politically correct, like supporting teammates falsely accused ...
4/20/2009 2:26 PM ET
Reporter Richard Stevenson claims the big-spending, tax-raising president is actually committed "to the most basic conservative tenets: the power of markets as an engine of innovation and ...
4/20/2009 2:04 PM ET
Frank Rich sees "the demise of America's anti-gay movement" and warns those "who have spread the poisons of bigotry and fear" by opposing gay marriage." Does that include President Obama and the ...
4/17/2009 1:03 PM ET
A story on a brewing controversy involving financier-turned-Obama-advisor Steven Rattner made no mention of his close friendship with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., although the paper ...
4/17/2009 12:16 PM ET
The "90 percent" figure just won't die.
4/17/2009 11:09 AM ET
Haven't they dwindled away yet? The Times first used the phrase "dwindling band of Republican moderates" back in 1996.
4/16/2009 2:39 PM ET
Unbalanced views of public appearances by two Supreme Court justices, one conservative, the other liberal.
4/16/2009 1:44 PM ET
Plus: The Times calls a single group "ultraconservative" 15 times but has only used the term "ultraliberal" to describe any liberal group once.
4/16/2009 12:21 PM ET
The Times worries that health insurance plans may not cover a new cancer therapy - but if the Times was in charge of health care, would there be any new kinds of therapies developed for insurance ...
4/16/2009 10:25 AM ET
Liz Robbins dismisses the tea parties as a temper tantrum: "All of these tax day parties seemed less about revolution and more about group therapy" and "offered no solutions," just anger.
