Clay Waters

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

"Striking Disparities" in the Earnings of...Mobsters?

The class struggle goes underground, as the Times finds that even the mob has its haves and have-nots.

1994 Letter to Gay Rights Group Hurting Mitt Romney Among Conservatives?

An old letter from the Massachusetts governor to a gay rights group gets the Times overexcited.

Dictatorships and Double Standards in the Times

"Brutal dictator" Pinochet vs. "grandfatherly" North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.

What Did Rahm Emanuel Know about Foley Emails? The Times Doesn't Care

Jeff Zeleny, former Chicago Tribune reporter, shows no interest in Chicago-based Rep. Rahm Emanuel's possible knowledge of the notorious Marc Foley emails to a page a year before they were made ...

The Front Page Is Safe Again for Good Economic News

"...the buying power of American workers is now rising at the fastest rate since the economic boom of the late 1990s."

"The First Stirrings of Rabid Anti-Communism"

The Times' theatre critic explains history for us in a review of a Manhattan production.

How Nice: "Hippocrates Meets Fidel"

Marc Lacey's provides the Cuban regime some positive PR. Plus: Does the U.S. "tar" Castro "as a dictator who suppresses his people"?

"Powerful" ISG Report a "Rebuke for Bush"

The Times is enthusiastic about the ISG report: "Instead, the report confronts the president with a powerful argument that his policy in Iraq is not working and that he must move toward ...

Imams on a Plane: Neil MacFarquhar's Grossly Misleading Review

"Yet that fictional moment is an all-too-possible occurrence, as witnessed when six imams were hauled off a US Airways plane in Minnesota in November after apparently spooking at least one fellow ...

Frank Rich Talks to Fellow Bush-Haters

Who "Doesn't Know What the Truth Is"? Bush or Frank Rich?

Which Way Is It?

Is global inequality increasing or not? The Times can't decide.

The "Obesity Epidemic"?

Liberal health zealotry in the Times.

Reporter Again Pushes Bolton Critic Lincoln Chafee as Bolton's Replacement at UN

For the second time in three weeks, Helene Cooper plumps for Bolton's harshest Republican critic as a possible replacement for Bolton as United Nations ambassador.

Castro's Communism "A Work in Progress"

As the dictator misses his 80th birthday party.

Howard Dean Doesn't See a Dem Mandate, But Times Reporter Does

Political reporter Adam Nagourney manages to get to the left of Howard Dean.

Who Is Capt. Jamil Hussein? The Times Doesn't Ask In Print

When discussing controversy over an alleged atrocity in Iraq, in which Sunnis were reportedly doused in kerosene and burned alive, Tom Zeller leaves off a vital question he asked on his blog days ...

Al Sharpton, "Civil Rights Leader"

Plus "Muslim-Bashers in the Blogosphere"

Iran's Dictator Talks to America About "Civil Liberties...Being Curtailed."

Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or NYT editorial page editor? "Civil liberties are increasingly being curtailed. Even the privacy of the individuals is fast losing its meaning."

"Civil Rights Leader" Al Sharpton, Again

Republican-bashing Jesse Jackson makes the grade as well.

Times Watch Director Clay Waters Appears on Fox News

A video link to Times Watch Director Clay Waters' appearance on FNC's Your World with Neil Cavuto.