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
2/28/2012 11:44 AM ET
Give me a break, Brooks: "First they went after the Rockefeller Republicans, but I was not a
Rockefeller Republican. Then they went after the compassionate
conservatives, but I was not a ...
2/27/2012 3:30 PM ET
Charles Isherwood, theater critic, plays financial reformer: "The Occupy Wall Street movement has brought an intensified focus
on the growing inequities in the economy and the dubious practices ...
2/27/2012 2:52 PM ET
Columnist Maureen Dowd on the GOP's new Cotton Mathers: "How can the warm, nurturing Catholic Church of my youth now be
represented in the public arena by uncharitable nasties like Gingrich ...
2/27/2012 1:50 PM ET
The Times sees a Republican "stampede to the right" in 2012: "The rightward tilt has consequences for Congress and the Obama
administration as it has hollowed out the center in Congress and made ...
2/27/2012 12:00 PM ET
Jackie Calmes once again boosts Obama as a (secret) budget hawk: "...Mr. Obama has come to adopt
most of the major tenets supported by a majority of the commission’s
members, though his ...
2/24/2012 12:47 PM ET
Reporter David Lepeska in the Chicago edition of the New York Times: "As anti-Muslim rhetoric rises locally and nationally -- some of it fueled by the presidential campaign...The effect of these ...
2/24/2012 12:06 PM ET
Former executive editor Bill Keller on where his paper's liberal streak was most noticable: "...it would probably fall under the realm of social issues, by and large." He then defended the paper's ...
2/24/2012 7:12 AM ET
New York Times columnist Charles Blow critcized allegedly anti-gay Twitter posts by CNN commentator Roland Martin, claiming “Twitter claims another casualty.” Apparently Blow learned nothing. ...
2/23/2012 1:21 PM ET
Andrew Revkin, former environmental reporter for the Times and strong global warming believer, now finds himself under attack from far-left climate activists for criticizing the conduct of climate ...
2/23/2012 12:27 PM ET
Jackie Calmes on Washington Week defends Obama's broken promise on reducing the deficit: "You know, it’s probably the president made that promise in like
February of 2009, just after taking ...
2/22/2012 2:23 PM ET
New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal, safe from "deranged" arguments inside his liberal cocoon, himself makes a deranged argument against a Virginia law, comparing ultrasound to ...
2/22/2012 12:57 PM ET
Reporter Scott Shane is not pleased with the "inflammatory oratory" and "strident" talk around possible threats from an Iran equipped with nuclear capability: "...why is there already a new whiff ...
2/21/2012 2:45 PM ET
When it comes to illegal immigration, it's hard to tell the left-wing Times editorial from the paper's "objective" news stories, since they all dwell on how "miserable," "unbearable," and ...
2/21/2012 1:24 PM ET
New York Times congressional reporter Carl Hulse indulges liberal Sen. Russ Feingold's preening post-9-11 melodrama: "The pleasant Capitol Hill neighborhood that he inhabited became
an armed ...
2/21/2012 11:38 AM ET
Veteran media reporter David Carr declared an unfortunate ESPN headline slurring the ethnicity of the Knicks' Jeremy Lin as one of myriad “underlying racist tropes that
still lurk in the id of ...
2/20/2012 2:43 PM ET
The New York Times tends to soft-pedal dangers like rising gas prices during Democratic administrations, while playing them up during Republican ones. But not on Sunday: The lead story brought ...
2/20/2012 1:56 PM ET
After conflating Santorum's criticism of Obama's energy policy with questioning the president's faith, Richard Oppel Jr. takes off the reporter mask to get offended on Obama's behalf: "Assertions ...
2/17/2012 1:50 PM ET
Columnist Paul Krugman in Playboy (an interview, thank goodness) says Occupy Wall Street has performed a "great service," and brags on himself for being persecuted during the post-9-11 period: ...
2/17/2012 12:17 PM ET
Landon Thomas Jr. blames the "debt-driven austerity crusade" and lack of tax-funded job training for youth unemployment in England: "...experts
say the British government’s debt-reduction ...
2/16/2012 2:45 PM ET
The Times embraces stolen documents from an activist group skeptical of global warming, and snottily dismisses the Heartland Institute's claim the theory is "a
major scientific controversy." "It ...