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
4/23/2013 1:24 PM ET
The Times takes for granted that 90% of the public actually support background checks and that Obama has failed to gain a victory on behalf of the people: "That raises a broader question: If he ...
4/23/2013 12:36 PM ET
Personal finance reporter Tara Siegel Bernard's latest liberal "Your Money" column shows how difficult it is to make the smallest reductions in federal spending: "President Obama has put Social ...
4/22/2013 4:38 PM ET
Liberal New York Times columnists do what they do best: Thomas Friedman pivots from
the Boston bombings to a carbon tax, Maureen Dowd gives mock-worthy
"tough guy" advice to Obama, and Frank ...
4/22/2013 2:09 PM ET
Liberal NYT columnists do what they do best: Thomas Friedman pivots from the Boston bombings to a carbon tax, Maureen Dowd gives mock-worthy "tough guy" advice to Obama, and Frank Bruni slams the ...
4/22/2013 1:36 PM ET
When it comes to pushing gun control, the New York Times reliably relied on emotional outbursts over reasonable argument every time. Sheryl Gay Stolberg quoted an activist removed from the Senate ...
4/22/2013 1:05 PM ET
Doesn't sound very "jumbled" to us. Columnist Charles Blow insisted that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's "politics seemed jumbled," based on the suspect's Twitter feed: "On Election Day he retweeted a
tweet ...
4/19/2013 2:55 PM ET
The Times runs sympathetic-sounding headlines over its Friday profile of the two Chechnya-born suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. First: "Far From War-Torn Homeland, Trying to Fit In." ...
4/19/2013 10:59 AM ET
White House reporter Mark Landler cynically uncovers an Obama comeback from the ashes of defeat: "The
Boston bombings could allow Mr. Obama to achieve a different goal:
moving the country’s ...
4/19/2013 10:24 AM ET
Times media reporter Brian Stelter suggests Fox News used bad, biased news judgment in covering "a Texas fertilizer plant explosion" (that has so far killed 12 people) instead of Obama's petulant ...
4/18/2013 12:31 PM ET
Joseph Goldstein's anti-climactic followup to his front-page expose suggesting racial profiling on the part of the New York Police Department: "Recruited by civil rights lawyers, these
men and ...
4/18/2013 10:55 AM ET
The Times is not taking the defeat of gun control very well. Jonathan Weisman: "A wrenching national search for solutions to the violence that left 20
children dead in Newtown, Conn., all but ...
4/17/2013 12:36 PM ET
From the paper's account of the funeral for the "deeply polarizing...divisive" Margaret Thatcher: "Critics have claimed that the authorities have sought to cloak the cost
of the ceremony by not ...
4/16/2013 4:25 PM ET
A mere month after the trial began, the New York Times has, under pressure, sent a reporter to Philadelphia to cover the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell on charges of mass infanticide. Trip ...
4/16/2013 12:32 PM ET
A "nonpartisan, independent review" by the Constitution Project aims to prove that the United States tortured detainees in the war on terror after 9/11, and the Times' Scott Shane gives them a ...
4/16/2013 11:21 AM ET
Under pressure, the Times' Trip Gabriel did indeed file from Philadelphia on the infanticide trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. But Gabriel penned less than three paragraphs from what ...
4/15/2013 11:30 PM ET
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tweeted soon after the fatal bombings at
the finish line of the Boston Marathon: "explosion is a reminder that
ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate ...
4/15/2013 3:31 PM ET
NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof tweeted soon after the fatal bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon: "explosion is a reminder that ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate Republicans for ...
4/15/2013 2:48 PM ET
New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel finds a possibly illegal recording by a left-wing PAC of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell "embarrassing" for the senator, and suggested McConnell and ...
4/15/2013 12:19 PM ET
Columnist Ross Douthat on the perils of the media attempting to "lead the conversation" on hot-button issues: "And it’s how you end up with a press corps that went all-in for the
supposed 'war ...
4/15/2013 11:27 AM ET
The New York Times has almost ignored the trial of of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist accused of mass infanticide, even as
conservatives have shamed other media outlets into playing ...
