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
3/3/2009 2:53 PM ET
Hypocrisy among Harvey Araton (pictured) and Selena Roberts, Times' sports columnists past and present, when it comes to going after Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape.
3/3/2009 1:34 PM ET
Iseman on the NYT's pursuit of false affair allegations: "I think they became so invested in this I believe that they would have had to have believed in the beginning that this was true....they ...
3/2/2009 3:57 PM ET
Mark Leibovich: "It seems that 'socialist' has supplanted 'liberal' as the go-to slur among much of a conservative world....Right-leaning bloggers and talk radio hosts are wearing out the ...
3/2/2009 2:52 PM ET
Reporter Shaila Dewan plays liberal sociologist: "...this country of workaholics accustomed to unbridled consumption has generally chosen money over time...furloughs might also help answer larger ...
3/2/2009 12:43 PM ET
The Times' obituary reduces the radio legend to his conservative politics: "A man who provided his own spin (from the right) on the news."
2/27/2009 2:07 PM ET
Lunchtime reading: Did you know that "Human excrement is rich in nitrogen" and "A 19th-century 'sewage farm' in Pasadena, Calif., was renowned for its tasty walnuts"?
2/27/2009 1:43 PM ET
Was that before or after the massive expansion of Medicare?
2/27/2009 1:27 PM ET
Economics columnist David Leonhardt sees Obama's budget plan and U.S. history itself through the distorted liberal prism of income inequality, missing issues of individual freedom and the many ...
2/26/2009 5:46 PM ET
The Times chides Americans for their tree-killing "obsession" with soft toilet tissue: "But fluffiness comes at a price." So, how many trees have to die to churn out one million editions of the ...
2/26/2009 1:21 PM ET
Truth hurts? In Cairo, reporter Michael Slackman frets that "the public is outraged that Hamas is labeled a terrorist organization by the United States, while Israel is treated as a close friend."
2/25/2009 4:55 PM ET
Newsweek reports that "what the Times described as a 'support group' of about 30 women is actually a full-blown parody...They don't fact check the emails, or the gossip, and the posts are ...
2/25/2009 4:22 PM ET
Columnist Michelle Malkin accuses reporter William Yardley of whitewashing the Clinton-era campaign finance controversies of Gary Locke, Obama's pick for Commerce Secretary.
2/25/2009 1:47 PM ET
Staff writer and columnist David Leonhardt on the civilizing joys of higher tax rates: "Think of it this way: A tax increase isn't so much a barrier to a society becoming richer as it is a result ...
2/24/2009 3:22 PM ET
The Times can't accept the fact that Guantanamo Bay may not be inhumane: "...detainees' lawyers and human rights groups ridiculed the 85-page report that the official, Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, sent ...
2/24/2009 3:02 PM ET
New York's new Archbishop Timothy Dolan is also a "genial enforcer of Rome's ever more conservative writ," according to reporter Michael Powell.
2/24/2009 2:36 PM ET
The Times set Obama up for greatness - on the backs of those recalcitrant Republicans who failed to back his "economic stimulus plan." And some inconvenient questions and answers were left out of ...
2/23/2009 3:22 PM ET
Today's story marks the second front-page story in six days on the ideological split between the Republican Congress and Republican governors over Obama's "stimulus package."
2/23/2009 2:51 PM ET
Who's to blame for excessive partisanship in D.C.? White House reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg points to "Gingrich, a veteran - and, some would say, the architect - of the hard-edged 90s." But what ...
2/20/2009 3:24 PM ET
Patrick Healy's story featuring the heroic Ron Martin, high school drama teacher extraordinaire: "This is the first time I've chosen a show for the high school because I had an agenda. In this ...
2/20/2009 1:18 PM ET
Reporter Julie Bosman finds the "Newly Poor Swell Lines at Nation's Food Banks." First up? A family of three earning $55,000 a year. And there's more statistical shoddiness.