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.

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Big, Bad Wal-Mart

Another day, another negative story on the discount giant, accompanied by an editorial plea for a higher minimum wage.

More Front-Page Focus on "Stagnant Incomes" Under Bush

A piece on rising housing costs leads by lamenting "the crushing combination of escalating real estate prices and largely stagnant incomes."

The Return of Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse, back in the lead after revelations about her left-wing outburst at Harvard in June.

Times Book Critic Loves Bob Woodward's Newest

Michiko Kakutani: "In Bob Woodward's highly anticipated new book, 'State of Denial,' President Bush emerges as a passive, impatient, sophomoric and intellectually incurious leader, presiding over ...

Rep. Foley Scandal Makes Hypocrites Out of G.O.P. Congress?

Sharpening up a pro-Democrat political point, reporter Raymond Hernandez paints helpless Democrats under hard attack by hypocritical Republicans.

Congressional Republicans "Rocked By" Rep. Mark Foley

The Times finds its latest Republican-majority killing silver bullet and twice conflates two sets of emails to make House Majority Leader Hastert look bad.

Revised And Extended Remarks on Weeping Greenhouse

Former Public Editor Daniel Okrent now insists to Newsweek that maybe the near-perfect example of Linda Greenhouse's objective reporting will change our minds about reporters being able to pop off ...

Dick Cheney Hates Checks and Balances?

Maureen Dowd declared on PBS that journalism is vital because "checks and balances is what Dick Cheney is trying to destroy."

Times Editors on Greenhouse: No Comment

While former Public Editor Daniel Okrent was stunned and media-establishment heavyweights stroked their chins, Times editors refused to comment to NPR on the very liberal Linda Greenhouse speech.

NPR Reporter Stunned At Linda Greenhouse Speech

National Public Radio media reporter David Folkenflik was stunned by a June speech at Harvard by Times reporter Linda Greenhouse, which was very explicitly liberal.

A Moldy Bowl of Chile

The Times panned a play about Salvador Allende, the first elected Marxist in the Western Hemisphere back in 1970, but not so much the "dignity and idealism" of Allende's politics.

Times Quick To Promote George Allen 'Nigger' Charges

The Times was routinely slow on Clinton sex stories. But they were quick to find Democrats charging Sen. George Allen used the word "nigger" in the past - a very politically toxic matter - as fit ...

Hugo Chavez, Latino Male Oprah?

The Times saw Chavez's plug for a Noam Chomsky book as a light front-page feature - he's apparently a Latino male Oprah. Chomsky was a "luminary."

Iranian Tyrant Ahmadinejad "Flowery, Almost Socratic" Rants

Reporter Helene Cooper also finds the anti-American ravings of Hugo Chavez "colorful."

Nagourney Sees Echoes of 1994 GOP Takeover

The Times gets excited about its latest poll's good news for Democrats: "The disdain for Congress is as intense as it has been since 1994...

GOP "Narrows Immigration Focus," says Carl Hulse...

...but earlier this month a Hulse headline said the GOP had "Set Aside Work on Immigration" altogether. So is the focus narrowing or widening?

The Editorial Page Gets Hysterical Over Voter ID Requirements

"One of the cornerstones of the Republican Party's strategy for winning elections these days is voter suppression, intentionally putting up barriers between eligible voters and the ballot box."

Adam Nagourney: Republicans Are Doomed, Take 27

"Republicans face additional peril from a public distressed at a Republican-controlled Congress that accomplished little this year," and the intra-party tussle over interrogating terrorism ...

Fear Factor: A Times Critic on Judge Richard Posner's "Chilling Book"

Two law professor/bloggers are not impressed with Kakutani's "arguments" against libertarian Judge Posner's provacative take on liberty in an age of terrorism.

So Much for That Sophisticated Times Readership

When it comes to liberal hostility and paranoia, blog commenters at the Times give the Daily Kos kids a run for their money