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
3/28/2012 12:40 PM ET
Strange priorities at the New York Times: Reporter Scott Sayare, in
Toulouse in the aftermath of the killings of seven by a radical Muslim, seemed to think the top story was Muslim fear of ...
3/28/2012 10:59 AM ET
There were strange priorities afoot in Tuesday's New York Times, which
led with a poll story on falling support for the war in Afghanistan. Yet
the paper buried a story from the same poll ...
3/27/2012 2:16 PM ET
There were strange priorities afoot in Tuesday's New York Times, which led with a poll story on falling support for the war in Afghanistan. Yet the paper buried a story from the same poll showing ...
3/27/2012 1:37 PM ET
The New York Times coverage of the Pope Benedict XVI's trip to the dictatorship
of Cuba has a strange, cheap-shot emphasis on how Cuban crowds are coerced to
attend such rallies, an ...
3/26/2012 2:58 PM ET
A condescending Times story by Susan Saulny provided a slight corrective to the paper's
previous misleading coverage of Rick Santorum's appeal among women, but maintained the
unsubstantiated ...
3/26/2012 1:51 PM ET
The Times defends former New Jersey Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine from accusations of fraud as chief executive of the financial services firm MF Global: "At first, the revelation fueled speculation ...
3/26/2012 1:07 PM ET
Behold the irony: The New York Times' Paris-based reporter Scott Sayare says the newspaper Le Figaro is "a right-leaning daily newspaper that is increasingly viewed as a mouthpiece for [President ...
3/23/2012 12:01 PM ET
Linda Greenhouse, former New York Times Supreme Court reporter turned columnist, sneers that the constitutional arguments against the individual mandate of Obama-care are so "analytically weak" as ...
3/23/2012 9:41 AM ET
NYT's Krugman: "First, the lie: No, President Obama did not say, as many Republicans now claim, that he wanted higher gasoline prices....The claim that Mr. Obama wanted higher prices is a lie, ...
3/23/2012 9:12 AM ET
New York Times movie critic Jeannette Catsoulis doesn't even try to be fair to "October Baby," a pro-life movie: "...the film communicates in the language of guilt and fear....a vision of medical ...
3/22/2012 2:06 PM ET
New York Times columnist Gail Collins went on the Late Show with David
Letterman, ostensibly to discuss her biography of
President William Henry Harrison. But the first segment was entirely ...
3/22/2012 11:55 AM ET
Even as comedian and talk-show host Bill Maher appears in the New York Times by writing an op-ed and by making a $1 million donation to a pro-Obama SuperPAC, the Times ignores his history of ...
3/22/2012 11:07 AM ET
Even after the murderer in Toulouse is identified as a radical Islamist, the Times still can't let go of its attacks on French President Nicolas Sarkozy's for allegedly making anti-immigrant ...
3/21/2012 2:04 PM ET
Eduardo Porter laments: "Americans have never been too worried
about the income gap. The gap between the rich and the rest has been
much wider in the United States than in other developed ...
3/21/2012 1:21 PM ET
Reporter Steven Erlanger claims "No one is suggesting that the
French presidential campaign inspired a serial killer..." but then goes on do just that: "But
in a period of economic anxiety, ...
3/20/2012 2:27 PM ET
The New York Times, laboring under the false impression it
participated in George W. Bush's "rush to war" in Iraq, is pushing back
hard against the prospect of preemptive action against Iran's ...
3/20/2012 12:06 PM ET
New York Times reporter John Broder defends Obama to the hilt on his weak flank of high gas prices: "...Mitt Romney said that President Obama has sought higher gasoline and
energy prices and ...
3/20/2012 10:40 AM ET
New York Times contributor Sarah Hepola compares the feminist to civil rights martyr Martin Luther King: "History’s most formidable figures
have always been a tough act to follow, of course. ...
3/19/2012 1:56 PM ET
Times reporter Katharine Seelye's long profile of Rick Santorum was harsh on his principled stand as a U.S. senator in the case of Terry Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose feeding tube ...
3/19/2012 12:20 PM ET
Last year a New York Times political reporter praised Obama's hoops knowledge. This year a successful presidential pick made the sports section itself. The headline: "N.C. State, President's Pick, ...
