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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10/15/2012 1:42 PM ET
Paul Krugman: "...many people in America really do die
every year because they don’t have health insurance. How
many deaths are we talking about? That’s not an easy question to
answer, and ...
10/15/2012 1:02 PM ET
Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg delivered a "Check Point" on Saturday on
"just how vexing the abortion issue has become for Mitt Romney and his
running mate." But what about Joe Biden's gaffe, ...
10/15/2012 12:40 PM ET
Sheryl Gay Stolberg's obituary for Sen. Arlen Specter shows liberals and the Times have yet to forgive the liberal Republican for being so mean to feminist icon Anita Hill: "The Thomas ...
10/15/2012 12:13 PM ET
Former New York Times journalist David Rohde gives the paper's Public Editor this tidbit about coverage of President Obama's drone strikes over Pakistan: "If a Republican president
had been ...
10/12/2012 5:04 PM ET
The New York Times put a platoon of at least 15 reporters on
the fact-check beat for Thursday night's vice-presidential debate, and
they predictably found that Paul Ryan had been "misleading" ...
10/12/2012 2:28 PM ET
Times reporter James Barron leads left-wing poet Amiri Baraka into radical reminisces. The text box to Baraka's profile suggested his radical reading of the deadly 1967 Newark riots as a ...
10/12/2012 1:25 PM ET
The New York Times put a platoon of at least 15 reporters on the fact-check beat for Thursday night's vice-presidential debate, and they predictably found that Paul Ryan had been "misleading" on ...
10/11/2012 2:49 PM ET
Public Editor Margaret Sullivan and Times readers noticed that while other newspapers put the congressional hearings on Libya on the front page, "...The New York Times was not among them. The six ...
10/11/2012 1:30 PM ET
Times writer Matt Bai comes up with a novel explanation for Obama's poor debate performance: "In a late and frantic dash to the center, Mr. Romney argued for
the first time in last week’s debate ...
10/11/2012 11:52 AM ET
Not just Democrats, but the Times itself: "Aides scouring the results of focus groups and national polls
found that undecided voters watching the presidential debate in Denver
seemed startled ...
10/11/2012 11:22 AM ET
New York Times reporter Monica Davey on Thursday was in
Wisconsin playing up the Democratic candidate's Rep. Tammy Baldwin
chances in her race for an open Senate seat against Republican Tommy ...
10/10/2012 1:41 PM ET
Wednesday's lead New York Times editorial, "Conspiracy World – Behind every nonpartisan institution, the right sees the malevolent hand of a liberal cabal,"
is at least more colorful than the ...
10/10/2012 11:36 AM ET
As Congress holds hearings on the fatal attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, some media outlets break news or put the story on the front page. Then there's the New York Times, which devoted ...
10/9/2012 1:47 PM ET
The Times led the Sunday Review with a huge article by Kevin Baker chiding the GOP for holding cities in contempt and forcing the District of Columbia "to accept school vouchers, lax gun laws and ...
10/9/2012 11:19 AM ET
New York Times Magazine writer Matt Bai offers some helpful advice to the GOP: "You can channel the extremists, or you can lead your party toward modernity, but you really can’t do both." Bai also ...
10/9/2012 8:13 AM ET
Hot Air's Ed Morrissey provided some insight into the double standard in the New York Times'
coverage of two mediocre September jobs report released on the eve of
two presidential elections: ...
10/8/2012 12:30 PM ET
Hot Air's Ed Morrissey provided some insight into the double standard in the New York Times'
coverage of two mediocre September jobs report released on the eve of
two presidential elections: ...
10/8/2012 11:42 AM ET
On ABC's This Week, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman accused the
press of not uncovering Mitt Romney's "flat-out untruths" -- then got accused of lying about Medicare by
Republican ...
10/8/2012 9:34 AM ET
The Times admitted to Obama's "disaster" of a debate but found some excuses for the president, including his "disdain" for Mitt Romney: "Like other presidents, Mr.
Obama’s debate preparations ...
10/8/2012 8:06 AM ET
The Times' Lede blogger Robert Mackey gets unusually worked up in his defense of Big Bird and his disdain for voters who consider it a drain on the Treasury. It's popular in Brazil, for one thing: ...
