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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8/21/2012 12:34 PM ET
After months of hostile coverage, the Times polls New Yorkers on "stop and frisk" police tactics, and finds they are (surprise) divided on whether police treat minorities fairly. The paper uses ...
8/20/2012 1:20 PM ET
New York Times environmental reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal: "Today’s
humans probably need air-conditioning if they want to thrive and
prosper. Yet if all those new city dwellers use ...
8/20/2012 12:31 PM ET
For the New York Times, this is an unambiguously good thing: "In this political age of ideological purity, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan is an enigma....Snyder, a former accountant who has ...
8/20/2012 9:35 AM ET
Times columnist Maureen Dowd: "Both men [Paul Ryan and former VP Dick Cheney] are way, way out there. It is, to use a phrase coined by French doctors, la belle indifférence, or 'the beautiful ...
8/20/2012 9:12 AM ET
Dismissing conservative concerns of liberal bias on the part of
moderators for the presidential debates as a predictable Rush Limbaugh talking point, New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter ...
8/17/2012 12:00 PM ET
The New York Times followed up Thursday's buried brief on the
Family Research Council shooting with a solid and balanced story on
Friday, including pertinent information about the shooter's ...
8/17/2012 10:10 AM ET
Former New York Times reporter Timothy Egan mocks Romney's ancestors for polygamy (though President Obama's family tree is similarly encumbered) and mocks Romney as an "Olympian" flip-flopper ...
8/17/2012 9:49 AM ET
The Times predictably put Mitt Romney's tax return announcement in its lead slot, but reporter Michael Shear noted that "Mr. Romney and his wife would still have had a higher income tax rate than ...
8/16/2012 3:24 PM ET
Times columnist Maureen Dowd praises the Paul Ryan pick: "Who
better to rain misery upon the heads of millions of Americans?....except
that his politics are just a teensy bit ...
8/16/2012 1:14 PM ET
Times reporter Helene Cooper gave Obama credit for lowering the rhetorical temperature of
the campaign, skipping completely the false and vicious attack from Priorities
USA, an ...
8/16/2012 11:59 AM ET
New York Times fashion reporter Cathy Horyn: "The man from Janesville, Wis., was hoisted onto the love
pedestal, a nerd suddenly out of his loafers and into the sex dreams of
Republicans, who ...
8/16/2012 10:40 AM ET
The New York Times made do with a 330-word article on page A15, while the Washington Post made the local story a long and more politically detailed off-lead on Thursday morning: "An armed ...
8/15/2012 2:27 PM ET
Times reporter turned columnist Eduardo Porter cries out for justice, or at least higher taxes on the middle class, which will apparently lower infant mortality and do all matter of good things ...
8/15/2012 1:40 PM ET
Paul Ryan was in a shady meeting with a controversial donor, while Mitt Romney was barely noticed on the campaign trail in the Midwest. Meanwhile, gifted orator Barack Obama was celebrated with a ...
8/15/2012 8:57 AM ET
Times columnist Maureen Dowd praises the Paul Ryan pick: "Who better to rain misery upon the heads of millions of Americans?....except that his politics are just a teensy bit heartless....Ryan ...
8/14/2012 11:48 AM ET
This marks at least the third time the Times' London reporter has blamed capitalist greed for riotous behavior in the paper's news section: "The Games took place almost exactly a year after riots ...
8/14/2012 9:23 AM ET
Times columnist Paul Krugman even goes after colleagues in the media for the respect that "big fraud" Paul Ryan receives, due to "the gullibility and vanity of the news media, in much the same way ...
8/14/2012 8:58 AM ET
Times reporter Michael Shear on the Tea Party, August 13: "In fact, the movement has
expanded. Tea Party voters in Texas helped the Senate candidate Ted Cruz
defeat David Dewhurst, the state’s ...
8/13/2012 1:36 PM ET
Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller went after
Republicans and the party's "disciplined conservative infrastructure" in
his column on Paul
Ryan. Pecking at a multitude of ...
8/13/2012 11:07 AM ET
Times reporter Jackie Calmes sounds unhappy with Romney's choice of Paul Ryan: "His blueprint would greatly
shrink the government, largely undoing the social safety net by shifting
more costs ...