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
9/15/2008 12:19 PM ET
Times goes drilling for scandal in Sarah Palin's Alaskan background, comes up empty.
9/12/2008 2:52 PM ET
Plus Clueless Thomas Friedman Praises Communist China's "Concentrated State Power"
9/12/2008 1:45 PM ET
Judith Warner attends a Palinpalooza campaign rally in Fairfax, Va. and concludes that "liberals need to start working harder at breaking through the empathy barrier."
9/12/2008 1:27 PM ET
Jim Rutenberg: "At times visibly nervous, at others appearing to hew so closely to prepared answers that she used the exact same phrases repeatedly, Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was ...
9/12/2008 12:48 PM ET
Will the Times ever describe Sarah Palin in a lead sentence in similar fashion?
9/12/2008 12:43 PM ET
The Obama camp is relying on its media allies to tackle Palin for them: "[Obama's] aides said they were looking to the news media to debunk the image of her as a blue-collar reformer..."
9/11/2008 3:51 PM ET
A Times reporter tells two people at a McCain rally: "You have to read the New York Times. Don't just listen to what Bill O'Reilly says."
9/11/2008 12:40 PM ET
Reporter Larry Rohter's pro-Obama fact-checking: McCain's accusations "seriously distort the record....old and discredited accusations." As if Barack Obama and Joe Biden never make faulty ...
9/11/2008 11:26 AM ET
Covering for Democrats: Kate Phillips just knows that Obama wasn't insulting Palin with his "lipstick on a pig" remark. Back in 2006, Phillips tried to get people to stop talking about John ...
9/10/2008 3:40 PM ET
John McCain, "the happy captive"?
9/10/2008 8:04 AM ET
Clark Hoyt says questions about Palin's "juggling" ability are totally inbounds: "The New York Times did have a front page story about the conversations that are going on among women...about how ...
9/10/2008 7:20 AM ET
An education story acknowledged the existence of Bill Ayers, an Obama colleague and cofounder of the violent terrorist group Weather Underground.
9/9/2008 1:35 PM ET
Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell accused the McCain camp of employing "the Big Lie strategy."
9/9/2008 12:40 PM ET
Mild-mannered columnist Bob Herbert lets the mask slip: "Self-hatred is a terrible thing. Just ask that arch-conservative Clarence Thomas."
9/9/2008 7:28 AM ET
Some of Brand's musings: Calling President Bush a "retarded cowboy" and telling Americans they must vote for Barack Obama "on behalf of the world."
9/8/2008 1:53 PM ET
Conservatives are happy, and columnist Frank Rich is spitting mad.
9/8/2008 1:22 PM ET
A focus on liberal bias: "The celebrity magazine, which usually focuses more on Britney and baby bumps than elections, drew criticism from readers for the cover. A record number of commenters on ...
9/8/2008 12:52 PM ET
Mark Leibovich dismisses Republican arguments about liberal media bias as a campaign tactic, while media columnist David Carr takes them to heart.
9/8/2008 12:09 PM ET
"[Steve Schmidt's] stamp was reflected in the sharp tone of the scathing prime-time speeches, all of which Mr. Schmidt reviewed and approved, and some of which were criticized as stretching the ...
9/5/2008 4:17 PM ET
"The Republican National Convention this week in Minneapolis-St. Paul hardly measures up to the belligerence of Patrick J. Buchanan's 1992 call for a 'cultural war,' but some of the same refrains ...
