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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2/20/2009 12:22 PM ET
The suit by Iseman has been settled in print, without a trial or money changing hands - but with a couple more shots against John McCain.
2/19/2009 12:55 PM ET
Two weeks ago Executive Editor Bill Keller said such labeling in Israel coverage could be a sign of biased journalism.
2/19/2009 12:25 PM ET
The Times wonders why Mayor Bloomberg isn't taking up Obama's offer to extend food stamp benefits to more New Yorkers.
2/18/2009 2:12 PM ET
Reporter Fernanda Santos hails anti-foreclosure tactics organized by the left-wing housing activist group ACORN by employing 60's-style sloganeering ("a budding resistance movement") and not a ...
2/18/2009 12:53 PM ET
Reporter Jackie Calmes has a habit of seeing "militancy" and ideological rigidity on only one end of the political spectrum.
2/17/2009 5:16 AM ET
Times "Q&A" reporter Deborah Solomon questioned conservative icon William F. Buckley in a more hostile fashion than she did Weatherman bomber Bill Ayers.
2/16/2009 2:31 PM ET
A Times text box lauds Venezuelan President Chavez's "resilience" in winning a referendum ending term limits - but what of the strong-armed intimidation tactics leading up to the vote?
2/16/2009 2:17 PM ET
NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller, out promoting a New York Times book "Obama: The Historic Journey," denies pro-Obama media bias: "...as a rule, reporters don't fall in love with candidates. They ...
2/13/2009 8:53 AM ET
A pattern of left-wing grant-making at the parent company of the New York Times.
2/12/2009 3:29 PM ET
Zimbabwe's Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe has been called a "liberation hero" nine times by reporter Celia Dugger. She's never called him a "dictator."
2/12/2009 2:25 PM ET
Timothy Egan starts out writing about a baseball superstar's steroid use and ropes in two prominent Republicans along the way.
2/11/2009 3:56 PM ET
The Times' timely fawning over the two Republican senators from Maine who are helping make Democrats' big-spending dreams come true.
2/11/2009 2:06 PM ET
NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller warned last week that the use of terms like "right-wing" when reporting on Israel could indicate a slanted report. So why does the phrase keep cropping up on its ...
2/10/2009 1:56 PM ET
After denying the possibility of winning in Iraq during the Bush years, the Times is suddenly having second thoughts: "This is what victory in the war in Iraq was supposed to look like...."
2/10/2009 12:50 PM ET
Objective business headline or NYT Co. press release?: "Resilient Strategy for Times Despite Toll of a Recession."
2/9/2009 8:39 PM ET
Sam Tanenhaus, Week in Review editor and alleged conservative, declares "Conservatism Is Dead" on the cover of The New Republic.
2/9/2009 2:51 PM ET
Plus, Keller unwittingly criticizes his paper's liberal slant: "To describe a politician as 'liberal' or 'conservative' (while almost always inexact) is generally neutral. To describe the same ...
2/9/2009 2:10 PM ET
"For the backers of Proposition 8, the state ballot measure to stop single-sex couples from marrying in California, victory has been soured by the ugly specter of intimidation. Some donors to ...
2/6/2009 3:09 PM ET
Plus Cheney the Drunken Fratboy and Don't Trust the Times With Your Life
2/6/2009 2:37 PM ET
I must have been out sick those days: "The days when criticism of Mr. Bush could be censured as unpatriotic may be long gone..."
