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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NYTimes Asks: Should Air-Conditioning 'Be Rationed Away?'

The New York Times asks from its air-conditioned midtown Manhattan headquarters: "Is it a good goal for everyone in the world to have access to air-conditioning -- like clean water or the ...
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Ironic: New York Times Reporter Attacks 'Fox and Friends' for Partisan Slant

Ignoring the liberal slant of virtually every other media outlet, New York Times media reporter Jeremy Peters singled out the Fox News morning show Fox and Friends for partisan slant: "'Fox & ...
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Paul Krugman, Charming and Modest: 'I Have Been Right About Everything.'

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's blog post Monday could pass for a parody of the columnist's terminal pomposity: "We’re coming up on the second anniversary of my piece "Myths of ...
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Why Has America Rejected Obama-care? NYT Blames Karl Rove Ads, Conservative Commentators

Why have Americans overwhelmingly rejected Obama-care? Times reporter Abby Goodnough blames Karl Rove and Fox News, hints that Obama-care supporters have the facts on their side: "That success ...
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Pity President Obama as Passive Victim of Circumstance, Suggests NYTimes Front Page

For such a historic figure, Barack Obama sure doesn't have much influence on the world. That's the theme of reporter Peter Baker's front-page "news analysis" for Monday's New York Times, ...

New York Times, Friend of the (Government) Worker

The Times' front-page sob: "But pink slips are still going out in a crucial area: government....But those with disappearing jobs say that the effects are not just economic -- they mean longer ...
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NYT's Bellafante Plays Race Card, Smears Singer in Defense of Principal Who Tossed 'God Bless the U.S.A.'

In a ferocious and racially charged defense of school principal Greta Hawkins, Times writer Ginia Bellafante took a personal cheap shot at singer Lee Greenwood for daring to criticize Hawkins for ...
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Sympathy for 'the Devil': Anna Wintour 'an Engaged Politico and Valuable Asset' to Obama

Intimidating Vogue editor Anna Wintour is actually "an engaged politico and valuable asset to President Obama and his re-election effort," gushes Times political and media writer Jeremy Peters.

NYT: Sen. Mitch McConnell's 'Incendiary Defense' of Free Speech?

"...Mr. McConnell did not sound like a bomb-thrower, but his speech was an incendiary defense of the free flow of campaign cash in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ...
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Pity President Obama as Passive Victim of Circumstance, Suggests NYTimes Front Page

Times reporter Peter Baker pities President Barack Obama, victim of circumstance: ""For Barack Obama, a president who set out to restore good relations with the world in his first term, the ...
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New York Times, Rest of Media Aghast Over Neil Munro Interrupting Obama

Times media reporter Brian Stelter was insulted on behalf of the president and his fellow liberal reporters: "By shouting out and repeatedly interrupting the president during a speech, [reporter ...
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Trip Gabriel Digs Spurs In, Takes Ann Romney's Horse Story for Another Pointless Lap

New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel enlisted Daily Show comedian Stephen Colbert to mock the Romney campaign, specifically Ann Romney's interest in the sport of equestrian dressage: "As the wife ...
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Surprise: NYT's Coverage of New Obama Immigration Policy Utterly Slanted Toward Amnesty

The New York Times' coverage of Obama's amnesty announcement was typically loaded toward the side of illegal immigrants, and barely addressed conservative concerns about employment and the rule of ...
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NYT's Matt Bai Praises Statesmanlike and Contemplative' Bob Kerrey, Faults 'Tea Party Fervor'

In a profile for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, reporter Matt Bai fawned over former Democratic senator and presidential candidate Bob Kerrey as "a statesmanlike and contemplative presence" ...
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The Horror: NYT's Timothy Egan Forced to Watch Fox News

Former reporter Timothy Egan takes one for the liberal team: "Trapped with a Fox News big screen in my stable of fellow trotters at the gym a few weeks ago, I took in the worldview that may ...

Labeling Logic: On Obama-Care, NYTimes Pits 'Conservatives' Against 'the Other Side of the Issue'

Given two chances, New York Times reporters Jonathan Weisman and Michael Shear couldn't identify the universal-health-care backers Families USA as liberal in their Friday piece on what happens ...
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NYT's Shear Digs Up Racism Accusations: 'Much More' Than 'Macaca' Doomed GOP Sen. George Allen

NYT reporter Michael Shear felt the need to kneecap Allen out of the starting gate by injecting all the old controversies and rumors or racism into the current news cycle: "Questions about Mr. ...
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NYT Puts Catholic Church on Defensive Again: 'Lightning Rod for Criticism'

Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein coverage of a meeting of Roman Catholic bishops portrayed the church  on the defensive over its fight for religious freedom, as did the story's text ...

'Fracking' Attack: NYT Won't Give Up Fighting Natural Gas Extraction, Even After Embarrassing Itself

The Times can't quit its fracking attacks: "Institute’s Gas Drilling Report Leads to Claims of Bias and Concern for a University’s Image." Reporter Mireya Navarro pumped up the alleged scandal: ...
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Another Border Run: New York Times Recycles Its 'Conservative Christians Break With GOP on Amnesty' Theme

Every couple of years the Times runs a story on "conservative" evangelicals who support looser immigration laws and amnesty. The latest comes from Trip Gabriel: "Some of the nation’s most ...