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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8/6/2008 11:58 AM ET
But when it came to standing with other media outlets and publishing controversial images of the Prophet Mohammad, the paper's courage vanished.
8/5/2008 3:13 PM ET
A Times news story actually suggests that the killing of an illegal in a PA town could have been inspired by a mild anti-illegal immigration ordinance from two years ago, in a town 20 miles away.
8/5/2008 1:36 PM ET
The U.S. failure to pay in perpetuity for an illegal immigrant's expensive medical care is the result of "two deeply flawed American systems, immigration and health care."
8/5/2008 12:55 PM ET
It's awful to spread myths about Barack Obama, but just fine to spread them about Bush Sr.? "Mr. McCain's sense of wonder evoked the episode in the early 1990s when George H. W. Bush became overly ...
8/5/2008 9:45 AM ET
Throwing a flag on a liberal sports columnist's line about Brett Favre's on-again, off-again retirement plans: "In a fragile economy in which jobs are being lost, there is a poignancy in watching ...
8/4/2008 2:52 PM ET
It's going to be a long campaign.
8/4/2008 12:50 PM ET
"Senator Barack Obama is a man of few rhetorical stumbles..."? Michael Powell's front-page report on Obama and the race card gets off to a bad start.
8/4/2008 11:51 AM ET
Sunday Magazine reporter Solomon (pictured) confronts T. Boone Pickens on the charges made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: "I thought it was all invented."
8/4/2008 11:09 AM ET
With the U.S. succeeding in Iraq, the Times abruptly decides the war is no longer important to voters. Adam Nagourney: "Don't you think that people are thinking about different things right now?" ...
8/1/2008 2:47 PM ET
Also: The Times cites the Media Research Center for the 52nd time. For the 52nd time, the Media Research Center was labeled "conservative" or "right-wing."
8/1/2008 12:02 PM ET
Give me a break: "The ad gave us an uneasy feeling that the McCain campaign was starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama that Republican operatives ran against Harold Ford, ...
7/31/2008 3:21 PM ET
Patrick Healy unearths Obama Republicans in Indiana (a week after the Indianapolis Star ran a similar story) and portrays Obama, who supports partial-birth abortion, as someone who would work to ...
7/31/2008 3:11 PM ET
Editorial writer Adam Cohen is still mad over Democratic Sen. Max Cleland's 2002 loss, and cites suspicions from "skeptics" about "malicious software that changed votes."
7/31/2008 1:02 PM ET
Reporter Jim Rutenberg frets over McCain's harsh attacks: "The intensity of the recent drive - which has included some assertions from the McCain campaign that have been widely dismissed as ...
7/31/2008 8:00 AM ET
Two days after running the front-page headline, "Democrats Try to Break Grip Of the Senate's Flinty Dr. No," the Times criticizes McCain for calling Obama "Dr. No" and for his "misleading" ...
7/30/2008 3:19 PM ET
A lead editorial insists McCain is peddling a "false account" of Obama's cancelled visit to wounded troops in Germany - but the paper's fact-checker leaves the question open. Also: Is it really ...
7/30/2008 1:43 PM ET
Two news stories on the same page accuse John McCain of running "misleading" ads against Barack Obama.
7/29/2008 7:29 PM ET
Reporter Elisabeth Bumiller poses sympathetic questions to the House Speaker at a public interview, and Pelosi brings up the Fairness Doctrine: "[Right-wingers] saw an opportunity, came out of the ...
7/29/2008 11:48 AM ET
One of reporter Carl Hulse's descriptions of Sen. Tom Coburn may have been even too liberally slanted for the Times. Meanwhile, Ted Kennedy is again simply a "Democrat of Massachusetts."
7/29/2008 10:52 AM ET
Patrick Healy cites words of wisdom from John Kerry to explain why voters have turned to senators: "Maybe what John Kerry...called the 'stubbornness' and 'rigidity' of the Bush administration has ...
