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
2/16/2012 10:48 AM ET
Double standards: Former environmental reporter Andrew Revkin stood arms-length from the leaked emails from the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit that resulted in the "Climategate" scandal that ...
2/15/2012 2:17 PM ET
The New York Times found newsworthy a mocking protest
against Mitt Romney by a “dozen people” representing the canine
community, which apparently feels insulted by Mitt’s treatment of his ...
2/15/2012 1:35 PM ET
A slanted summary by religion reporter Laurie Goodstein is symbolic of the tone of her coverage of Obama's contraceptive mandate: "The uproar threatens to embroil the Catholic church in a bitter ...
2/14/2012 12:44 PM ET
White House reporter Jackie Calmes treated last year's Obama budget proposal as just right in its
balance of spending cuts and increases and gave him a pass for putting
off tough choices. But ...
2/14/2012 12:04 PM ET
The Times trumpets alleged conservative hypocrisy over big government benefits on Sunday's front page, in a 4,200-word story that liberals are gleefully swapping around. "How about higher taxes?" ...
2/14/2012 10:36 AM ET
Mark Landler heaps praise on the First Lady, down-to-earth role model and politico extraordinaire: "The trip is a timely reminder of why the Obama campaign views her as such a potent weapon." She ...
2/13/2012 3:37 PM ET
On the front of the Sunday Styles section, fashion writer Bee-Shyuan Chang and the supposedly hard-news Times once again fawns over Michelle Obama the
fashion plate, who “has become a powerful ...
2/13/2012 2:27 PM ET
Jeff Zeleny: "[Mitt Romney] went to
great lengths to showcase his conservative core, using a variation of
the word “conservative” at least 25 times during a 25-minute speech." In similar ...
2/13/2012 1:56 PM ET
Media reporter Brian Stelter sucked up to two liberal MSNBC hosts, praising new host Melissa Harris-Perry as a provider of "intellectual stimulation" as "the only tenured professor in the United ...
2/10/2012 1:41 PM ET
The Times is particularly sensitive to people (like Rep. Michele Bachmann did at CPAC) accusing Obama of "apologizing for America" overseas, and criticism in general: "Mrs. Bachmann was taking ...
2/9/2012 2:09 PM ET
The Times editorial page editor makes excuses for Obama's broken promise to close Guantanamo Bay, and ignores liberals' anti-Bush hypocrisy on the issue: "Mr. Obama never really made a 'decision' ...
2/9/2012 1:10 PM ET
Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer portrayed the religious freedom fight over birth control in cynical political terms, showcasing Republicans as being opportunistic in opposition to Obama's requirement ...
2/8/2012 12:15 PM ET
The liberal Times editorial page feels betrayed by President Obama's
embrace of Super PACs, reversing his position on campaign finance: "He
is also telling the country that simply getting ...
2/7/2012 4:39 PM ET
New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak conflates constitutional rights with entitlements: "But the Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least ...
2/7/2012 3:19 PM ET
Obama decides that Super PACs aren't such a "threat to democracy" after all, but the Times barely acknowledges the flip-flop: "...a milestone in Mr. Obamas evolving stances on political fund-raising."
2/7/2012 1:54 PM ET
Helene Cooper: "Both moments were perceived by the Obama re-election campaign as another gift from Mr. Romney - now dubbed 'the gift that keeps on giving' by some on the Obama team."
2/7/2012 12:46 PM ET
Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak conflates constitutional rights with entitlements: "But the Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many ...
2/6/2012 7:45 PM ET
Ross Douthat: "From the nightly news shows to print and online media, the coverage's tone alternated between wonder and outrage - wonder that anyone could possibly find Planned Parenthood even ...
2/6/2012 3:19 PM ET
Reporters rush to Obama's defense: How dare Romney say Obama has made the economy worse! "It was a dubious statement, because the unemployment rate fell to precisely what it was during Mr. Obama's ...
2/6/2012 1:33 PM ET
Michael Grynbaum: "But thanks to exquisite timing, an ear for the zeitgeist and an assist from the momentum and immediacy of the Internet, a $250,000 pledge from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to ...
