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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7/11/2011 1:31 PM ET
Economics reporter Catherine Rampell: "And where, if anywhere, is the outrage?...Unlike the hard-pressed in, say, Greece or Spain, the jobless in America seem, well, subdued. The old fire has gone ...
7/11/2011 12:37 PM ET
Executive Editor Bill Keller on "Absolute Monarchs A History of the Papacy": "We get a disheartening chapter on Pius XI and Pius XII, whose fear of Communism (along with the church's long streak ...
7/11/2011 10:09 AM ET
Suddenly, Barack Obama is a budgetary hero and Republicans are the timid ones. The opening to Mark Landler's front-page story: "President Obama tried on Sunday to revive the chances for a sweeping ...
7/7/2011 2:05 PM ET
Fueled by Democratic press releases, the Times harps on an alleged flub by Republican front-runner Mitt Romney: "And in the past few days, [focus] has revolved around three words in particular: ...
7/7/2011 6:11 AM ET
Other than that, brilliant, Mr. David Brooks: "An earlier version of this column misstated the amount of revenue increases needed in exchange for spending cuts. It is a few hundred billion, not ...
7/6/2011 1:25 PM ET
Former Times columnist Frank Rich snaps at Obama from the left, from the front of New York magazine: "The bigger political problem is that a far larger share of the American electorate views him ...
7/6/2011 11:24 AM ET
A Times Magazine cover story heralds the explicit sex-advice columnist and gay activist Dan Savage as a "devoted husband" and "proud father," while marking his "great contribution to family ...
7/6/2011 7:16 AM ET
A reader responds to Bill Keller trashing Sarah Palin: "Had your fellow media colleagues given Barack Obama the same treatment as you have given Mrs. Palin, no one would care for him either." ...
7/5/2011 4:22 PM ET
The New York Times' idea of a "conservative" columnist accuses conservative Republicans: "The members of this movement have no sense of moral decency....But the members of this movement talk ...
7/5/2011 1:30 PM ET
The Times' idea of a "conservative" columnist accuses conservative Republicans: "The members of this movement have no sense of moral decency. A nation makes a sacred pledge to pay the money back ...
7/5/2011 11:58 AM ET
Times writer Jonathan Mahler ties it all together: "When the first Balco indictments were handed down in February 2004, they were trumpeted as a blow for democracy, the sports equivalent of the ...
7/5/2011 11:14 AM ET
Happy Independence Day? "If there is no such thing as a healthy hot dog, how do you limit the damage at this weekend's weenie roast?"
7/1/2011 12:35 PM ET
No love from the Times for Gov. Cuomo on this issue, anyway: "The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a ...
7/1/2011 9:48 AM ET
Plus Michael Shear longs to cover hard policy news, then spends the weekend going through Sarah Palin's old emails. Plus, anti-terrorist program wrecking reporter James Risen thinks "right-wing ...
7/1/2011 9:43 AM ET
Plus: Michael Shear longs for hard political news, then spends the weekend going through Sarah Palin's old emails.
6/30/2011 2:40 PM ET
Yes, and they're called "liberal Democrats: "And many voters have blanched at a number of [Florida Gov. Rick Scott's] legislative accomplishments, particularly a new state budget that puts ...
6/30/2011 12:31 PM ET
Sheryl Gay Stolberg on Obama's hesitation to fully endorse gay marriage: "His critics say that by invoking states' rights, the president - a former constitutional law professor and son of a black ...
6/29/2011 1:30 PM ET
Eric Eckholm's slanted story on fetal pain has some important omissions; two of his sources for medical research are either abortion advocates or abortion providers. Previously Eckholm had called ...
6/29/2011 12:11 PM ET
Hulse, hemming and hawing around the forbidden phrase "tax increase," claim that Democrats are merely seeking "new federal revenues....tax changes...new tax revenue."
6/29/2011 10:41 AM ET
Reporter Simon Romero: "To the many comparisons that can been made between Venezuela and Cuba - two close allies, both infused with revolutionary zeal, driven by movements that revere their ...