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
6/25/2008 12:07 PM ET
When the Times isn't relaying Obama's cracks at McCain (with little room for rebuttal), it's mocking him itself: "Mr. McCains campaign has used the overseas trips to try to highlight his foreign ...
6/24/2008 1:58 PM ET
Reporter Kate Zernike again portrayed the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as sleazy liars whose charges against John Kerry were "undermined" in 2004.
6/24/2008 11:40 AM ET
After devoting a long story to his upcoming testimony before Congress, the Times' print edition ignored climate scientist James Hansen's call for oil executives to be put on trial for "high crimes ...
6/24/2008 9:03 AM ET
A moderate Republican had his tan mocked and was goaded into sniping at his party, while a moderate Democrat was praised for his military valor and being an "unusually gifted stylist."
6/23/2008 2:00 PM ET
But of course, "...Questions Linger."
6/23/2008 12:22 PM ET
Guy Trebay characterizes common-sense reactions to transgendered "man" Thomas Beatie's infamous pregnancy as a "phobic response" to identity change.
6/23/2008 10:38 AM ET
Againt the agency's wishes, the Times identified a CIA interrogator, marring Scott Shane's lead story, "Inside the Interrogation Of a 9/11 Mastermind."
6/20/2008 1:45 PM ET
"Try as he might, President Bush cannot escape the haunting memory of Hurricane Katrina." Not if the Times has anything to say about it, anyway.
6/20/2008 11:55 AM ET
If McCain is truly "inviting [527 groups] into the fray on his behalf," where are they?
6/20/2008 11:24 AM ET
Reporter Julie Bosman defends Obama against undefined Internet "smears": "This advertisement tries to define Mr. Obama and his life story in the face of smear e-mail and Internet innuendo about ...
6/19/2008 3:30 PM ET
What? "...as the Equal Rights Amendment faded as a cause and conservatism made a comeback, Republican spouses became ever more careful to stay three steps behind their men and the times."
6/19/2008 2:14 PM ET
Roger Cohen indulges in a wee bit of stereotyping about Ireland's former status as a "beer-soaked backwater" and suggests the EU should use trickery to get the thing passed over Ireland's ...
6/19/2008 1:20 PM ET
A puzzling little piece goes after former POW John McCain for having the bad taste to praise Richard Nixon for improving the condition of POWs in North Vietnamese prison camps.
6/19/2008 12:00 PM ET
Dismissing Michelle Obama's "For the first time...I am really proud of my country" gaffe as a "rhetorical stumble," the Times' Michael Powell and Jodi Kantor (pictured) rally around its pick for ...
6/18/2008 1:38 PM ET
The Times takes every angle in support of a controversial California Supreme Court ruling, even pondering whether the newly legal gay marriage will benefit the state's economy.
6/18/2008 10:58 AM ET
The Times ran over 35 stories on the Haditha "massacre," but issued only brief wire reports as the case against two Marines crumbled.
6/17/2008 12:02 PM ET
Remarks on black parenting that were "inflammatory" when said by Bill Cosby in 2004 are now blunt and striking when coming from Obama.
6/17/2008 11:22 AM ET
Fawning from Herszenhorn: "[Sen. Reed] is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, but his diminutive height - 5 feet 7 inches on a good day, he says - makes his Special ...
6/17/2008 11:10 AM ET
Edward Wong: "Chinese officials seem to be galled by the apparent hypocrisy of Americans telling them what to do while the American economy is at best stagnant." No mention of the hundreds of ...
6/16/2008 2:47 PM ET
Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad suffered embarrassment when it turned out he had benefited from a sweetheart mortgage rate from Countrywide Financial, a target of Congressional Democrats. But the ...
