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
6/25/2012 1:13 PM ET
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
...
6/21/2012 12:21 PM ET
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 & ...
6/21/2012 10:12 AM ET
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 ...
6/21/2012 9:48 AM ET
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 ...
6/20/2012 10:29 AM ET
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, ...
6/20/2012 9:45 AM ET
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 ...
6/20/2012 7:36 AM ET
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 ...
6/19/2012 10:38 AM ET
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.
6/19/2012 10:06 AM ET
"...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 ...
6/19/2012 9:26 AM ET
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
...
6/18/2012 2:04 PM ET
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 ...
6/18/2012 1:19 PM ET
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 ...
6/18/2012 11:50 AM ET
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 ...
6/18/2012 10:56 AM ET
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" ...
6/15/2012 11:32 AM ET
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 ...
6/15/2012 10:05 AM ET
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 ...
6/14/2012 12:01 PM ET
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. ...
6/14/2012 10:54 AM ET
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 ...
6/13/2012 1:24 PM ET
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: ...
6/13/2012 12:50 PM ET
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 ...