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
4/2/2013 12:23 PM ET
Ugh. Jennifer Steinhauer on the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "Mr. Reid remains an enigma of sorts in Washington, a quiet force whose
voice is often barely audible, who skips Sunday talk ...
4/2/2013 10:40 AM ET
California is making a comeback, says New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, and you'll never guess why: "Unemployment in California remains high, but it’s coming down -- and
there’s a ...
4/2/2013 10:04 AM ET
New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel sniffs the air in a former Pennsylvania coal town that was among the first to try and "make life difficult for illegal immigrants": "Hazleton evokes the ...
4/1/2013 2:35 PM ET
The NYT's liberal public editor faults the latest front-page accusation of racial profiling on the part of the NYPD: "But with its emphasis on one sentence --
without enough context -- and its ...
4/1/2013 12:35 PM ET
A front-page New York Times story by Michael Winerip on indictments in a student testing scandal in Atlanta involving Beverly
Hall, former superintendent of that city's predominantly minority ...
4/1/2013 10:24 AM ET
A Rome-based reporter for the New York Times manages to botch the meaning of Easter: "Easter is the celebration of the resurrection into heaven of Jesus, three days after he was crucified,
the ...
3/29/2013 10:39 AM ET
Times Watch is marking its 10th anniversary with a Top 10 list of the most important liberal bias we've uncovered. Topics include: Jayson Blair's plagiarism, Howell Raines’ ego-plagued ...
3/29/2013 9:59 AM ET
The Times sympathetically hypes the gun-control angst of a "visibly frustrated" President Obama: "With resistance to tougher gun laws stiffening in Congress, a visibly
frustrated President Obama ...
3/28/2013 12:33 PM ET
Joseph Lhota is a moderate Republican running for mayor of New York
City, but Michael Barbaro's front-page story focuses on an
incident from 1999 when he inflamed Manhattan's artsy left-wing ...
3/28/2013 11:30 AM ET
Times
reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg bestowed a blessing on the "serious and
unassuming" Mary Bonauto, a lawyer for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and
Defenders (GLAD): "In Fight for Marriage ...
3/27/2013 1:19 PM ET
Former Times White House reporter Frank Bruni leads off his latest column on Sen. Rand Paul by borrowing John McCain's insult of conservatives: "When you’ve got loons the likes of Ted Cruz and ...
3/27/2013 11:28 AM ET
Only some social issues are divisive in the Plains states at the New York Times.
A sour tone permeateda front-page story on North Dakota's strict new abortion laws,
which ban abortions based ...
3/26/2013 3:16 PM ET
Turnabout: New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro praises a
billionaire for influencing legislation -- liberal legislation, anyway:
"In a telling sign of how much the
white-hot demands for ...
3/26/2013 1:31 PM ET
Why did Democratic president Bill Clinton anger the gay rights movement by signing the Defense of Marriage Act? Blame exhaustion and Bob Dole, suggest Peter Baker: "He had just flown across the ...
3/26/2013 11:19 AM ET
Turnabout: New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro praises a billionaire for influencing legislation -- liberal legislation, anyway: "In a telling sign of how much the
white-hot demands for gun ...
3/25/2013 6:10 PM ET
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, a former White House
reporter for the Times, followed Sen. John McCain in mocking attendees
of the latest Conservative Political Action Conference (aka ...
3/25/2013 1:05 PM ET
From Frank Bruni's Sunday column on gay marriage and the Republican Party: "CPAC, mind you, is no enclave of moderation and
reason. It’s more like an aviary for the far-right 'wacko birds' whom ...
3/25/2013 11:40 AM ET
A front-page Times profile of Brian Brown,
president of the National Organization for Marriage, which fights gay
marriage legislation, was actually fair until reporter Sheryl Gay
Stolberg's ...
3/25/2013 10:48 AM ET
The New York Times took an offensively soft approach to the death of the mother of Hamas terrorists who raised her sons to kill Jews: "Mariam Farhat, 64, the 'Mother of Martyrs.'"
The text box ...
3/22/2013 1:11 PM ET
The paper's most alarmist environmental reporter Justin Gillis again compares global warming skeptics to creationists in an unchallenging interview with NPR: "I don't necessarily feel obliged to ...
