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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7/19/2011 11:54 AM ET
Joe Nocera devotes two columns to piling on Rupert Murdoch and his American media properties: "The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified....Rupert Murdoch, despite giving us Homer Simpson, ...
7/19/2011 10:06 AM ET
The Times, on top of the big stories. Lead sentence to its August 10, 2010 report vindicating the Atlanta school system: "The Atlanta public school system was substantially vindicated Monday when ...
7/18/2011 3:34 PM ET
New York Times Magazine writer James Traub on mistreated John Kerry: "Kerry seemed to be the latest in a long line of decent, serious, honorable Democratic presidential candidates cut to ribbons ...
7/18/2011 1:23 PM ET
Magazine writer James Traub on poor, mistreated John Kerry: "The last time most Americans saw John Kerry, he was tying himself in knots trying to rebut the charge that he was for the war in Iraq ...
7/18/2011 12:24 PM ET
Sheryl Gay Stolberg traveled to Minnesota to pile on the Bachmanns days after a hidden-camera investigation ran on two networks: "Yet her position has also become a distraction for her campaign, ...
7/18/2011 10:43 AM ET
Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane concluded of Ian Urbina's controversial front-page Sunday story on natural gas: "...such a pointed article needed more convincing substantiation, more space for ...
7/15/2011 3:41 PM ET
New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes hits conservatives for outdated "starve-the-beast" governing philosophy, wonders why Obama isn't getting credit for his politically motivated budget-cutting ...
7/15/2011 12:50 PM ET
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explains it all: "A number of commentators seem shocked at how unreasonable Republicans are being. 'Has the G.O.P. gone insane?' they ask. Why, yes, it has."
7/15/2011 12:06 PM ET
Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse crowns new liberal Justice Elena Kagan winner of the Supreme Court's just-concluded term, a "distinctive voice" who still "has light years to go ...
7/15/2011 10:03 AM ET
Former reporter Timothy Egan sleazily likens Republican "anarchists" in Congress to the violent leftist mob who rampaged through Seattle in 1999: "The loafers may want to retreat to their wine ...
7/15/2011 9:24 AM ET
Reporter Jackie Calmes hits conservatives for an outdated and "problematic" "starve-the-beast" governing philosophy, and wonders why Obama isn't getting credit for his abrupt, politically ...
7/14/2011 1:32 PM ET
"The White House on Wednesday declined to challenge an account in a new book that suggests that President Obama, in his campaign to overhaul American health care, mischaracterized a central ...
7/14/2011 10:04 AM ET
Bill Keller hints his news staff is spending too much time writing books about their pets and concludes: "We indulge our writers because we want the talent happy, and because a little of their ...
7/14/2011 8:14 AM ET
Contributing writer Jennifer 8. Lee discusses the persecution of the anti-American anti-secrecy group Wikileaks, but doesn't mention she did publicity work for them last year: "The control that ...
7/13/2011 1:17 PM ET
You'll never guess what the paper's chief economics writer David Leonhardt thinks would be a good solution to the debt ceiling/budget crisis. Or maybe you will: "In the end, the most likely tax ...
7/13/2011 11:44 AM ET
Jackie Calmes gives the Republican Senate leader a backhanded compliment: "While Mr. McConnell's plan would face an array of political and perhaps constitutional issues, it signaled that ...
7/12/2011 5:14 PM ET
But the New York Times has spent three years telling us he already was a centrist! Jackie Calmes claims that President Obama "put on full display his effort to position himself as a pragmatic ...
7/12/2011 2:25 PM ET
Times international columnist Roger Cohen manages to defend Rupert Murdoch's contributions to keeping newspaper journalism relevant while still excoriating the "shrill right-wing demagoguery" of ...
7/12/2011 1:01 PM ET
But the Times has spent three years telling us he already was a centrist! Jackie Calmes claims that President Obama "put on full display his effort to position himself as a pragmatic centrist ...
7/11/2011 2:06 PM ET
Are jobless benefits and food stamps the only hope for keeping the economy afloat? Motoko Rich: "Unless hiring picks up sharply to compensate, economists fear that the lost income will further ...
