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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Obama Not Dogged By Diet Revelations, But New York Times Hits Romney in Print With 'Cookie-Gate'

Barack Obama's youthful foray into dog eating in Indonesia has yet to be mentioned in print in the Times, and was dismissed in one brief paragraph in a "Diner's Journal" blog entry. Yet the paper ...
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Krugman: Blame the Right Wing and 'Inequality,' not Obama, for Today's Economic Paralysis

Times columnist Paul Krugman and his wife contribute to the lefty Occupy Handbook: "So how did we end up in this state? How did America become a nation that could not rise to the biggest ...
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New York Times Reporter Again Advocates for Illegals Cowering in the 'Shadows'

Reporter Fernanda Santos sounds like an advocate for illegal immigrants: "The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next week challenging the most controversial sections of an Arizona ...

New York Times Lead Story Sees Yet Another Victory for Occupy Wall Street: Executive Pay

The left-wing Occupy Wall Street sit-in was kicked out of Zuccotti Park months ago, but the New York Times claimed to see its handprint in Wednesday's lead story. Reporters Jessica ...
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Scientists Not Alarmist Enough, NYT's Gillis Pushes Poll Showing Public Thinks 'Weather Extremes' Mean Climate Change

Since scientists are not sufficiently alarmist about so-called extreme weather for New York Times's apocalyptic climate reporter Justin Gillis, he is now promoting now surveysto make the case for ...

After Violent Attack by Anarchists, Times Strains to Note Occupy Protests 'Largely Devoid of Property Damage'

More downplaying of violence and vandalism of left-wing protests from the New York Times: "The demonstration, which, according to the police and witnesses, left in its path a trail of graffiti ...
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Stelter Predicts Ann Romney Insult Will Fade Like Limbaugh Insult 'Overreaction' (Which He Wrote 6 Stories on)

Times media reporter Brian Stelter was the latest to downplay Obama-supporter Hilary Rosen's insult of Ann Romney of having "never worked a day in her life," arguing that Hilary Rosen's insult ...
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Bill Keller Hints Arguments Against Gay Marriage Are Just Arguments Against Gays in General

Former executive editor Bill Keller talks to Mike Long, head of the Conservative Party of New York State, and slants their conversation on gay marriage: "It is difficult to construct an argument ...
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NYTimes' Carr: "For Good or Ill (and Most Would Say Ill), No One Did It Like Mr. Breitbart"

Media reporter David Carr gets nasty in his profile of the late conservative provacateur Andrew Breitbart: "For good or ill (and most would say ill), no one did it like Mr. Breitbart....Less ...
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Really? NYT's Jason DeParle Admits Welfare-Deprived Women Who Mug Immigrants Can 'Seem Unsympathetic'

NYT welfare reporter Jason DeParle: "I can't remember a time when I heard people talk so openly about desperate or even illegal things that they were doing in order to make ends meet. They ...
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New York Times Goes Mild on Insult of Ann Romney: 'Some Women saw an Opportunity Squandered'

The Times portrayed Obama supporter Hilary Rosen's gaffe on CNN Wednesday night, when she accused Mitt Romney's wife Ann of having "never worked a day in her life," as less of a Democratic ...
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Sexual Stereotyping Now OK at the Times? Claims Women Are Simply Better at Fashion, Managing

Sexual stereotypes are acceptable, as long as they portray women as superior to men? In "The Edge Goes to the Women," Horyn wrote "Could it be that women, despite being outnumbered by male ...
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Romney Hit on Obama Seen as Accurate But False by NYT, But 'Fake But Accurate' Good Enough for Bush Smears

When it came to defending CBS's "60 Minutes" using phony memos to lie about Bush's Vietnam War record, the liberal media standard was "Fake But Accurate," as preserved in a New York Times ...
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Rosenthal on Santorum: He Thrived on 'Fear and Xenophobia and Intolerance'

Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal pays tribute to former Republican candidate Rick Santorum: "Mr. Santorum showed that he could appeal to the far right, and the way far right, and the ...
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NYT SCOTUS Reporter Linda Greenhouse Still Insists Obama-Care Opponents Don't Have "Much of an Argument"

The former New York Times Supreme Court reporter again defends Obama-care, even after it was knocked around during Supreme Court argument: "Personally, I think I agree with many constitutional ...
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NYT's Peters Notes Gov. Nikki Haley Once Hit With 'Unfounded Blog Report'...But It Ran in the Times

Times media reporter Jeremy Peters defended Republican Gov Nikki Haley of South Carolina from a phony scandal story that made the rounds of the media via Twitter last week, and reminded ...

NYTimes Tries to Make Hay Out of High CEO Pay, Admits Its Example is 'Extreme' (and Shareholder-Approved)

Natasha Singer's front-page Business section expose on the alleged scandal of oversized CEO pay, "A Rich Game of Thrones – C.E.O. Pay Gains May Have Slowed, But the Numbers Are Still Numbing," ...
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New York Times Magazine Prints 5,000-Word Mash Note to 'Beautiful' Young Chilean Communist, Camila Vallejo

What will the feminists think? Magazine contributor Francisco Goldman yearns for "Camila Vallejo, the 23-year-old president of the University of Chile student federation (FECH), a Botticelli ...
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Krugman-Brooks, Round 15? New York Times Columnists May Be Engaged in Another Secret War

Years after furtively fighting over Reagan and racism (it's Times policy for columnists not to criticize each other), lefty Paul Krugman and "centrist" David Brooks may be scrapping over the ...
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NYT Columnist Joe Nocera Defends Chevy Volt, Reveals His Obsession With Car Critics Fox News, Rush

The Chevy Volt is an "Ingenious" electric car, but all is not well in Volt-ville: "Yet there was also an undercurrent of nervousness at the breakfast. A reporter for Fox News had been prowling ...