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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10/14/2011 10:21 AM ET
Double standards on story placement? A story on passage of trade agreements promising "minor" economic benefits makes Thursday's lead slot and is trumpeted as a "political victory," yet when ...
10/13/2011 2:34 PM ET
Times media reporter reports reporting on Occupy Wall Street: "As the Occupy Wall Street message of representing 99 percent of Americans has spread across the country, news media coverage of the ...
10/13/2011 1:20 PM ET
Evan Lehmann, reporter for Times-affiliated Climate Wire, throws out some red meat for the IRS: "The conservative nonprofit Americans for Prosperity unleashed a volley of ads aimed at Democrats in ...
10/13/2011 11:38 AM ET
He's surely there in spirit: "Some readers have been asking me to go make a speech at one of the OWS demonstrations. If you think about it, however, you'll see why I can't."
10/12/2011 2:35 PM ET
Former Executive Editor Bill Keller talks of his paper's stance in Texas: "...we are liberal in the sense that we are open-minded, tolerant, urban. Our wedding page includes - and did even before ...
10/12/2011 1:40 PM ET
Former Executive Editor Bill Keller used an Obama-minted talking point to make a political statement about the tragic wildfires in Texas: "Actually there is a more immediately consequential link ...
10/11/2011 4:26 PM ET
New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter marked the 15th anniversary of Fox News by accusing host Sean Hannity of "instigating" "inflammatory rhetoric," yet was silent on harsh things actually ...
10/11/2011 1:52 PM ET
Times media reporter Brian Stelter marked the 15th anniversary of Fox News by accusing host Sean Hannity of "instigating" "inflammatory rhetoric," yet was silent on harsh things actually said by ...
10/11/2011 11:43 AM ET
Bill Keller, the paper's former executive editor, on Gov. Perry: "Yes, his polls have withered under attack, and he's come across in a couple of debates as a doofus....[Perry provides] a wink to ...
10/11/2011 10:15 AM ET
Shocking news of Perry's racist past? Not exactly: "An early life in which exposure to diversity was not a common feature....In his early political career, Mr. Perry occasionally offended ...
10/10/2011 5:33 PM ET
From designing protest logos to filing laudatory editorials and news stories, the New York Times is celebrating the leftist ("populist") protests on Wall Street: "As the Occupy Wall Street ...
10/10/2011 3:55 PM ET
From designing protest logos to filing laudatory editorials and news stories, the Times is celebrating the leftist ("populist") protests on Wall Street: "As the Occupy Wall Street protests spread ...
10/7/2011 7:18 AM ET
The left-wing, anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street camp-out in Manhattan made the front of Thursday's New York Times along with a large photo. It's a far cry from the paper's coverage of the first ...
10/6/2011 11:31 AM ET
Promotional coverage of the Occupy Wall Street crowd on the front page of the Times: "In fact, the unexpected success of Occupy Wall Street in leveling criticism of corporate America has stirred ...
10/6/2011 8:52 AM ET
Thomas Friedman declares one of the two major parties a danger to the nation: "When the G.O.P. presidential candidates were asked during their debate on Aug. 11 whether any of them would accept a ...
10/6/2011 8:39 AM ET
Gail Collins: "The Tea Party, whatever it pretends, is just the latest manifestation of the right wing's refusal to accept the idea of Democrats running the government. Every time one gets ...
10/5/2011 1:22 PM ET
Obama's a hit in Texas! Among college students, anyway: "'Give me a win? Give me a break,' he said, bringing the enthusiastic and diverse crowd of more than 1,000 to its feet."
10/5/2011 12:38 PM ET
When does the movie come out? "The vanishing began Wednesday night, the most frightened families packing up their cars as soon as they heard the news....In certain neighborhoods the streets are ...
10/5/2011 11:20 AM ET
Reporter Nicholas Kulish gets label-happy in a dispatch from the euro-zone bailout battles.
10/5/2011 12:53 AM ET
The New York Times treats the leftist "Occupiers" as a genuine popular movement: "A loose-knit populist campaign that started on Wall Street three weeks ago has spread to dozens of cities across ...
