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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8/29/2008 11:56 AM ET
The Times saluted Barack Obama's "good, great or something else" speech for its "cutting language" against Republicans - but four years ago Republicans were accused of "ruthless" and "brutal" ...
8/28/2008 2:43 PM ET
Former reporter Timothy Egan on "underdog" Obama "fighting the headwinds of history" and McCain's "legions" of underhanded race-baiters.
8/28/2008 12:36 PM ET
No surprise in the Times' choice of verb.
8/28/2008 11:57 AM ET
After several stories criticizing conservatives for using Barack Obama's middle name, the Times leads with it.
8/27/2008 2:22 PM ET
Tom Friedman cluelessly celebrates the Chinese Communists "planning" and "national mobilization," which included displacing over a million of its citizens to make way for Olympic pageantry.
8/27/2008 12:39 PM ET
Anti-Bush author Ron Suskind's anecdote about a "forged letter," allegedly used by Bush to establish a Saddam-9/11 link, is very likely a phony story in itself.
8/27/2008 12:06 PM ET
Alessandra Stanley noted praise of "Obama's hardscrabble Kansas roots," but Obama had never even been to his grandfather's hometown in Kansas until this year.
8/27/2008 11:18 AM ET
The Times political blog asks readers about Hillary Clinton's speech: Did you A) Love It or B) Really, Really Love It?
8/27/2008 10:07 AM ET
For the third story in a row, Jim Rutenberg shrugs off Obama associate Bill Ayers' bombing of the U.S. Capitol to instead obsess over the funding of a conservative ad questioning the relationship.
8/26/2008 12:39 PM ET
The Times opens up the Democratic Convention and sees optimism for the party.
8/25/2008 3:40 PM ET
Reporter Jim Rutenberg is again more interested in the nefarious funding behind an ad linking Obama and homegrown terrorist William Ayers, than he is in the link itself. Plus more of the ...
8/25/2008 3:28 PM ET
Editor Kate Phillips: "[Biden] was widely criticized by liberal legal advocates and women's groups as having mismanaged the allegations of sexual harassment made by Ms. Hill against her former ...
8/25/2008 1:52 PM ET
Not a "raging liberal"? National Journal might disagree - they named him the most liberal senator in 2007.
8/22/2008 1:11 PM ET
Jim Rutenberg spends the first half of his story on a new anti-Obama campaign ad obsessing over who is funding it and whether or not it's legal.
8/21/2008 1:29 PM ET
This is the New York Times, right?
8/21/2008 12:17 PM ET
After five years of asking respondents how they think things are going in Iraq, Times' pollsters suddenly switch to Afghanistan, where prospects are worse. Is it because an improving Iraq is ...
8/20/2008 1:57 PM ET
A Times' letter-writer's love affair with her 1040 form: "[Columnist Ben Stein] says he doesn't care for paying taxes, but I like it."
8/20/2008 1:50 PM ET
David Leonhardt obsesses over income inequality and claims that "Relative to McCain...Obama does indeed look like a fiscal conservative."
8/19/2008 3:10 PM ET
The author and opponent of radical Islam faces amazingly hostile and suspicious questions from the Times' liberal "Q&A" interviewer Deborah Solomon (pictured).
8/19/2008 1:33 PM ET
It's OK for Democrats to mock McCain as a tool of Big Oil, but don't laugh or issue "snarky news releases" about Obama's tire gauge suggestion.
