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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11/5/2012 12:40 PM ET
After dropping the intellectual gem that "barring an Electoral College tie, someone is
going to win, someone is going to lose," Emory professor Drew Westen writes in the Times Sunday Review: "A ...
11/5/2012 12:23 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 11:45 AM ET
For years Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes has loyally defended Obama's "stimulus," and she keeps the flame burning on the eve of the election in a story with this photo caption in her ...
11/5/2012 10:20 AM ET
The New York Times certainly leaned "Forward!" for Barack Obama's reelection in its campaign coverage over the weekend, in both word choice and photo choice. And New Jersey's Republican governor ...
11/5/2012 9:40 AM ET
Arrogant New York Times columnist Paul Krugman goes on the record about the Romney campaign's chances: "They clearly know that it will take a miracle -- sorry, a last-minute surge -- to prevail on ...
11/5/2012 9:15 AM ET
Times' poll analyst Nate Silver extremely confident about Obama's chances for reelection on Monday morning: "Obama unlikely to win by anything like his post-DNC margins. But
Romney has no ...
11/2/2012 11:57 AM ET
New York Times' star poll analyzer and statistician Nate Silver continues to give hope to
Democrats, and he's getting more confident as the election draws closer.
After a heated debate on ...
11/1/2012 1:25 PM ET
As Election Day loomed, the New York Times made the most of Chris Christie bonding with President Obama over the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Thursday's
front page featured Mark Landler and ...
10/29/2012 3:53 PM ET
New York Times Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal's Sunday Review
was wall-to-wall for Obama this
week, with two left-wing op-eds supporting Obama on the front page, a
full-page ...
10/29/2012 2:06 PM ET
Times reporter Elizabeth Jensen profiles yet another left-wing hero: "...[Sally] Kohn, who also
writes for Salon.com and posts on Twitter constantly, won national
attention with her ...
10/29/2012 12:28 PM ET
Times Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal's Sunday Review was wall-to-wall for Obama this
week, with two left-wing op-eds supporting Obama on the front page, a full-page
endorsement of ...
10/28/2012 8:36 PM ET
The closer Election Day looms, the more often New York Times'
golden-boy pollster Nate Silver is thrust from his nytimes.com home into
the print edition, with a poll analysis rallying the ...
10/26/2012 12:30 PM ET
New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman made Friday's front
page on the Republicans' uphill struggles to take over the Senate, and got in a second day of shots against Indiana Republican ...
10/26/2012 10:38 AM ET
The closer Election Day looms, the more often New York Times'
golden-boy pollster Nate Silver is thrust from his nytimes.com home into the print edition, with a poll analysis rallying the ...
10/25/2012 12:11 PM ET
New York Times reporters Jonathan Weisman and
Michael Cooper both suggested Mitt Romney would be hurt by controversial comments on rape made
by Indiana's Republican Senate candidate Richard ...
10/25/2012 10:49 AM ET
New York Times political reporter Matt Bai: "Mr. Clinton was able to set himself up against ideological
extremism so successfully because he really was a centrist deal-maker, and everyone knew ...
10/25/2012 10:23 AM ET
Buried at the bottom of page A5 in the Times: A report on leaked emails showing the White House had intelligence suggesting
the Libya attacks were planned terrorism, not a
spontaneous reaction ...
10/24/2012 2:58 PM ET
Where was the criticism of Israel? That was the plaint from the Times former Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner in his review of Monday's presidential debate on foreign policy: "And there was no ...
10/24/2012 1:06 PM ET
New York Times reporter and sympathetic Obama biographer Jodi
Kantor implied that various insults suffered by President Obama were in
fact racist attacks, in a Sunday front-page profile. Plus: ...
10/24/2012 12:28 PM ET
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan had some tough questions on the subject of the NYT Co.'s incoming chief executive, Mark Thompson, on what he knew about the coverup of a pedophilia ...