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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Another Bogus NYT Story Baselessly Assumes Contraception Fight Hurting the GOP

Another phony New York Times story suggesting women's issues like abortion and contraception are hurting the GOP: Reporter Ashley Parker ignores inconvenient findings from the paper's own poll ...
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New York Times Watch Quotes of Note: No Respect for Deceased Andrew Breitbart

Plus former executive editor Bill Keller admits to seeing a liberal slant among his staff, but says a balanced paper would be "tedious" to read, and at least some religions are acceptable targets ...
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NYT Plays Guilt By Association: 'Firm Romney Founded Is Tied to Chinese Surveillance'

Anti-Romney guilt by association in a New York Times headline: "Firm Romney Founded Is Tied to Chinese Surveillance." That would be Bain Capital, which has donated more to Democrats than ...
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More Liberal Hysteria From NYT's Rosenthal: 'The G.O.P. Is Anti-Woman'

New York Times Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal: "Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska got it half right on Tuesday when she told her Republican colleagues that their party was at risk of ...
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NYT's Brian Stelter Labels Rush Limbaugh an 'Offensive Figure'

According to New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter, Rush Limbaugh is an "offensive figure," but race-baiter Al Sharpton is merely a "liberal commentator"? And the paper has yet to ...
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Liberal 'Talking Points Memo' Blog Outclasses 'Objective' New York Times in Fact-Checking Obama Speech

The partisan liberal news site Talking Points Memo managed to be tougher on President Obama's speech in Maryland than reporter Mark Landler of the New York Times, fact-checking Obama's claims ...
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Anti-Catholic Ad OK in New York Times, But Similar Anti-Islam Ad Rejected

There's a double standard on religious-bashing ads in the New York Times suggests the Daily Caller's Neil Munro: "Executives at The New York Times have rejected a full-page anti-Islam ...
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NYT's Brian Stelter Labels Rush Limbaugh an 'Offensive Figure'

According to New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter, Rush Limbaugh is an "offensive figure," but race-baiter Al Sharpton is merely a "liberal commentator"? And the paper has yet to mention ...
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Maureen Dowd Meltdown: GOP's 'Insane Bout of Mass Misogyny...To Turn Women Into Chattel'

"In some kind of insane bout of mass misogyny, Republicans are hounding out the women voters --- including Republicans and independents -- who helped them gain control of the House in 2010.The ...
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Another Front-Page Global Warming Threat From the NYT's Apocalypse Reporter, Justin Gillis

Man the lifeboats! NYT reporter Justin Gillis has another dose of doom, in the form of rising sea levels caused by you know what: "About 3.7 million Americans live within a few feet of high tide ...
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NYT Poll Blows Away Slanted Assumptions of NYT Reporters: Social Conservatism Not Hurting GOP With Women

The New York Times focused on the "treacherous political ground" occupied by President Obama as the election draws closer, while proving wrong pro-Obama assumptions made in recent stories by ...
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Front-Page NYT News: Romney's 'Aloof Manner' Hurting His Ability to Connect

Here we go again, "aloof" Romney makes the front page of the New York Times via reporter Michael Barbaro: "Mr. Romney’s struggle to tamp down resurgent opponents and secure the Republican ...

NYT Claims 'Centrist Women' (With Planned Parenthood Signs?) Are Fleeing GOP Over Contraception, Abortion

New York Times reporter Susan Saulny strings together some interviews to suggest "centrist women" are fleeing the GOP and may cost the Republicans the election. Judging by the accompanying ...
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What Does the New York Times Have Against Texas A&M?

The Times makes another attack on the "conservative" student body of the rare right-leaning college campus: "While many undocumented students found Mr. Zelaya’s campaign inspiring, his defeat ...
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NYT Claims 'Centrist Women' (With Planned Parenthood Signs?) Are Fleeing GOP Over Contraception, Abortion

New York Times reporter Susan Saulny strings together some interviews to suggest "centrist women" are fleeing the GOP and may cost the Republicans the election. Judging by the accompanying photos, ...
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New York Times Finds Race, Gender Bias in Mitt's Music: 'On Romney Song List, Guys Win, 18 to 1'

New York Times music critic Jon Pareles sniffs out discrimination on Mitt Romney's music "playlist": "There are just two songs by African-Americans, both plush ballads of fidelity...The lone song ...

Rosenthal: 'Bull...' and 'Pernicious Nonsense' to Suggest NY Times Is Lefty Equivalent of Fox News

New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal gets riled in a Freakonomics podcast: "Well it begins with bull and ends in it and you can figure out what comes in between. I think ...
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Rosenthal: 'Bull..." and 'Pernicious Nonsense' to Suggest New York Times Is Lefty Equivalent of Fox News

Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal gets riled in a Freakonomics podcast: "Well it begins with bull and ends in it and you can figure out what comes in between. I think it’s absolute ...
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So Much for Church-State Separation: White House Organizing 'Prayer Vigils' for Obama-Care, Says NYT

Times health reporter Robert Pear managed to identify the Tea Party Express as conservative, but found no liberals among major Obama-care supporters Families USA, the National Council of La Raza, ...
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NYT's Former Court Reporter Celebrates 'Accidental Heroines Sandra Fluke and Anita Hill vs. 'Thuggish' Rush

Former Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse: "Two women, a generation apart: one disrespected by the three-day rant of a thuggish talk show host, the other dissed by five members of ...