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
11/19/2012 12:38 PM ET
So why did the Obama administration put her forward in the first place? On Sunday's front page Times reporter Mark Landler defends UN Ambassador Susan Rice, under fire for false statements on ...
11/19/2012 12:21 PM ET
From pushing dried seaweed as a snack food to calling General David Petraeus "A Phony Hero for a Phony War," the New York Times Sunday Review section continues its lurch to the left under editor ...
11/19/2012 11:43 AM ET
Oh, no, white people helping! Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir faults the "white gentrifiers" helping victims of Hurricane Sandy: "As volunteers with the makeshift
relief efforts have applied ...
11/19/2012 11:15 AM ET
Former Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner: "Many analysts and diplomats outside Israel say the country today
needs a different approach to Hamas and the Palestinians based more on ...
11/16/2012 11:16 AM ET
New story raises serious questions, but Times' outrage still doesn't approach its Catholic Church levels.
11/16/2012 10:28 AM ET
The paper's slow-boil coverage of an internal controversy has yet to match the front-page intensity it brought to its "damning"
reporting on phone hacking by newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch, ...
11/15/2012 3:11 PM ET
Times reporter Eric Eckholm waxed enthusiastically over gay marriage victories in several blue states: "Elated by their first ballot victories, in four states, advocates of
same-sex marriage ...
11/15/2012 1:10 PM ET
Is Hamas merely "regarded by Israel" as a terrorist group? From the Times' lead story on Israel's killing of a Hamas terrorist: "Israel on Wednesday launched the
most ferocious assault on Gaza ...
11/14/2012 12:45 PM ET
Times media columnist David Carr "praises" Fox News for its election night coverage: "Over
many months, Fox lulled its conservative base with agitprop: that
President Obama was a clear ...
11/14/2012 10:15 AM ET
Professor Steven Hahn in the NYTimes Sunday Review finds Republican racism in long voting lines and just about eveywhere else: "Although
our present-day tactics are state-issued IDs, ...
11/12/2012 9:37 AM ET
Paper showed far less interest in new boss’ possible
cover-up of BBC sex abuse.
11/8/2012 1:30 PM ET
Jennifer Steinhauer pinpoints the Republican's problem: They weren't liberal enough. "Congressional Republicans’ heavy
focus on social issues affecting women -- like their proposals to reduce
...
11/8/2012 1:04 PM ET
The New York Times editorial board is hoping Republicans are "throwing out their old and failing playbook, seemingly written by and for a dwindling society of angry white men." Columnist Nicholas ...
11/8/2012 12:28 PM ET
NYT's Trip Gabriel: "Mr. Ryan will return
to the House with a more central role to play in the conservative wing
of the party, Congressional insiders said. But he is also open to blame
by ...
11/7/2012 12:57 PM ET
Jennifer Steinhauer shone sour light on a bright spot for Republicans in yesterday's vote: "Deep disapproval of Congress and dissatisfaction with partisan
division appeared no match for ...
11/7/2012 12:06 PM ET
Obama biographer Jodi Kantor on Obama's private dinners with left-wing "scholars": "He wanted to apply the lessons of
past presidential triumphs and failures to his own urgent project of ...
11/6/2012 3:10 PM ET
The morning of Election Day, the New York Times star poll forecaster Nate Silver forecast that Barack Obama had a 91.6% of retaining the presidency. Silver told Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert ...
11/6/2012 1:25 PM ET
Times media reporter Jeremy Peters: "Such
stridency [from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow] has put NBC News journalists who cover Republicans in awkward
and compromised positions, several people who ...
11/5/2012 6:16 PM ET
Through sympathetic alchemy, New York Times Magazine
political writer Matt Bai managed to transform Barack Obama's factually
loose biography as a sign of "his narrative sophistication, his ...
11/5/2012 1:59 PM ET
Bill Keller condescends to what he finds to be Paul Ryan's distressingly conservative alma mater, MIami University in Ohio: "Ryan’s alma mater draws mostly white, upper-middle-class
students ...
