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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NYT Quotes 'Retired Cuban Leader' Castro on 'Idiocy' of GOP Field, 'Had Reason to Be Annoyed'

Who cares what an unelected dictator thinks of the Republican primary field? The New York Times does: "'The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive ...

NYT Quotes 'Retired Cuban Leader' Castro on 'Idiocy' of GOP Field, 'Had Reason to Be Annoyed'

Who cares what an unelected dictator thinks of the Republican primary field? The New York Times apparently does: "'The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and ...

Haditha 'Massacre' Coverage Ends as it Begins, With Presumption of Marine Guilt

Reporter Michael Schmidt: "Iraqis were outraged Tuesday to learn that the Marine considered the ringleader of a 2005 massacre that left 24 of their countrymen dead in 2005 was sentenced on Tuesday ...

Alleged 'News' Headline Pits 'Have-Lots vs. the Have-Nots'

Eric Pfanner exudes leftist sensibilities in his report from the World Economic Forum in Davos: "...a new wave of anger was welling up, one that, over the last year, would shake up old assumptions ...

Florida Tea Partiers Akin to Angry Bulls, Charging at Gov. Crist's 'Moderate Apostasy'

Trip Gabriel likens Tea Party conservatives to angry bulls: "As he moved to consolidate the conservative base behind him, Newt Gingrich waved the red cape of a former Florida governor who quit the ...

Times Puts Photo of Romney's Tax Return in Lead Story Slot

More tax-hike propaganda in Wednesday's lead slot, conveniently matching President Obama's tax-the-rich campaign strategy. The Times took an obsessively detailed look at Mitt Romney's recently ...

Obama's 2012 State of the Union: Tax the Rich

Helene Cooper claimed Republicans in Congress were seeing their "poll numbers diving," but failed to note Obama's poll numbers are also underwater, and took Obama's lead in suggesting his message ...

NYT, Still Obsessed With 'Occupy'

From the front page to the education section to reality show reviews, the Times is still obsessed with Occupy Wall Street and the 99% "aspiring idealists" bravely fighting "the political and ...

Times Plays Two More Rounds of 'Name That Party' in Tuesday's Paper

Two controversial Democrats, one arrested for security leaks, another under investigation for alleged shady financial dealings under his governorship. Neither were identified as Democrats by the ...

Times Ignores Massive Pro-Life March for Fifth Year in a Row

For the fifth year in a row, the Times had no story about the annual March for Life in Washington against abortion in which thousands of pro-life activists participate every January on the ...

NYT's Charles Blow Conflates 'Hatemonger' Newt's Racism with Belief in Liberal Media Bias

How dare Republicans think the media is liberal: "[Newt's] the street fighter with a history of poisonous politics who not only goes there but dwells there...Take the issue of media bias for ...

Brisbane Traces Media's 'Fact-Checking' to Outcry Over Willie Horton Ad

The paper's public editor, Arthur Brisbane, reveals the "current [fact-checking] movement has its roots in the late 1980s, a response to aggressive advertising like the Willie Horton ads aimed at ...

Charles Blow Conflates 'Hatemonger' Newt's Racism With Belief in Liberal Media Bias

How dare Republicans think the media is liberal: "[Newt's] the street fighter with a history of poisonous politics who not only goes there but dwells there. He makes his nest among the thorns of ...

Long Defense of NYT's Israel Coverage Utterly Fails to Rebut 'Toxic' Critics

It's no shock former Times reporter Neil Lewis would disagree with pro-Israel conservatives who criticize the Times for an anti-Israeli slant. What's odd is how weak his counter-evidence is. Lewis ...

South Carolina: Not Quite as Backward as It Used to Be

How nice: "People like Chip Townsend, an engineer who moved his family to Greenville from Boulder, Colo., in 2006, discovered that the state is not an insular, ultraconservative bosom of the ...

'Romney Riches Are Being Seen as New Hurdle' - at the Times, Anyway

Wealthy hedge fund consultant (and liberal Democrat) John Edwards didn't get nearly this kind of scrutiny of his personal finances during the 2008 Democratic primary.

Romney's Tax-Cut Proposals Would 'Benefit the Wealthiest,' Widen the Deficit

"[Romney's] tax proposals...would largely cut taxes for the rich while driving down tax collections and widening the nation's deficit....Experts from across the spectrum acknowledge that the ...

South Carolina's 'Racially Charged Past' Emerging Thanks to Gingrich Remarks

Jim Rutenberg from Charleston: "But like the historic slave plantations that draw tourists on the outskirts of town, the legacy of that past has not been totally wiped from the politics of today. ...

NYT Makes Romney's 15% Tax Rate a Loaded Lead Story, Ignores Context

By paragraph three the Times had characterized the candidate's remarks as "likely to cement Mr. Romney's place as an unwilling emblem of the intensifying national debate over taxation and income ...

Times Reporter Again Hails Warren Buffett, the Liberals' Favorite Billionaire Investor

David Kocieniewski takes advantage of the controversy over Mitt Romney's 15% tax rate to again push for higher rates on the rich.