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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Times Reviews Joe McGinniss's Anti-Palin Hatchet Job, Ignores Books by Conservatives

"The Rogue," Joe McGinniss's hatchet-job expose of Sarah Palin, is crammed with unverified anecdotes delivered by anonymous foes of Palin but was nonetheless favored with recognition in the Times ...

NYT Calls Anti-Capitalism Protests a 'Populist Campaign...Clearly Tapped into a Deep Vein of Anger'

The 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 the ...

Times Already Predicting Racist Camp Name Will Hurt Rick Perry

"The campaign of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas found itself on the defensive on Sunday over a report that he had hunted at and taken guests to a West Texas camp with a racially charged name that his ...

After Arrests, NYT Takes Seriously 'Occupy Wall Street' Claims of Police Trickery

Unlike the other local papers, the Times took seriously suggestions that the leftist folks of "Occupy Wall Street" were tricked into blocking the Brooklyn Bridge by cops: "The police say marchers ...

Front-Page NYT Sniff: 'Educated' High-Income Voters Alienated by Tea Party, Still Like Obama

The New York Times claims "educated" people are alienated by the Tea Party and break G.O.P. support down by race and education: "With growing cities and suburbs, they are populated by increasing ...

Front of the Arts Section: We're All Doomed By Climate Change

This is an Arts story? "The show...is an ambitious attempt to call attention to the long-range impact of humanity's unrelenting thirst for energy. The melting of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau, ...

No Credit to Perry for Texas Economy, But Lots of Blame for Texas Health Care

No credit for Perry on Texas's booming economy, but plenty of blame for him on health care: "But while Mr. Perry condemns both efforts to make carrying health insurance mandatory, Texas faces a ...

Front-Page Sniff: 'Educated' High-Income Voters Alienated by Tea Party, Still Like Obama

Educated people alienated by the Tea Party: "With growing cities and suburbs, they are populated by increasing numbers of educated and higher-income independents, young voters, Hispanics and ...

Bronner Really Reaches to Bolster Obama's Pro-Israel Credentials

Today's big story: An online poll? "Moreover, the sense over the past two years that President Obama was growing angry with Israel and steering American policy away from its interests subsided ...

Puzzler: NJ Gov. Christie Not Really Bipartisan Because...A Democrat Called Him a Bully?

How did a political opponent's playground insults against Gov. Chris Christie translate into proof of Christie's nastiness, as opposed to the immaturity of the politician himself? "After a tough ...

Aww: London Rioters, Hurt By Cuts in Social Spending, 'Lacked Hope'

Nicholas Kulish: "Economics have been one driving force, with growing income inequality, high unemployment and recession-driven cuts in social spending breeding widespread malaise. Alienation runs ...

Landler Portrays Obama's Aggressive, Big-Spending Partisanship As 'Populist'

Landler lets Obama forward liberal mythology: "And [Obama] singled out Republican debate audiences for booing a gay soldier who had served in Iraq and for cheering the suggestion that a gravely ...

NYT Blames Conservative Victims for 'Diversity Bake Sale' Backlash, Threats on Left-Wing Campus

Encountering opposing conservative views in college? Perish the thought! Under the headline, "A 'Diversity Bake Sale' Backfires on Campus," New York Times reporter Malia Wollan suggests an ...

More Class From Krugman: Rep. Ryan's Medicare Plan 'Would Kill People, No Question'

Krugman: "To be a little melodramatic, the voucher would kill people, no question....The cuts in Medicare that he's proposing, the replacement of Medicare by a voucher system, would in the end ...

NYT Blames Conservative Victims for 'Diversity Bake Sale' Backlash, Threats on Left-Wing Campus

Encountering opposing views in college? Perish the thought! Under the headline, "A 'Diversity Bake Sale' Backfires on Campus," reporter Malia Wollan suggests an upcoming conservative protest would ...

No Liberals in Congress? So Suggests Steinhauer

Political reporter Jennifer Steinhauer continues to slant her ideological labeling, finding loads of conservatives in Congress but rarely identifying liberals.

Jerusalem Bureau Chief Bronner Accused of Conflict of Interest with...Israeli Rightist?

A left-wing blogger/journalist calls out Ethan Bronner for his tie to a PR firm run by an alleged "Zionist." But excessive sympathy for the state of Israel is one thing that Bronner cannot be ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note - Classless Krugman on 'Fake Heroes' of 9-11 like Bush

Plus: Taxes now voluntary, and two-thirds into Obama's term, everything is still Bush's fault.

Classless Krugman on 'Fake Heroes' of 9-11 Like Bush

Plus: Paying Taxes Now Voluntary, According to New York Times

Shear the Latest to Hear Nonexistent 'Let Him Die' Chants at G.O.P. Debate

No, it wasn't: "And following the last debate, when Mr. Paul was asked whether a young man without health insurance should be left to go without treatment - which was greeted with some chants of ...