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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3/4/2013 1:51 PM ET
The perils and victims of the round of the mandatory federal spending cuts known as sequestration led the New York Times'
weekend coverage, with the 2.4% cut in annual federal spending labeled ...
3/1/2013 1:18 PM ET
Pope Benedict XVI served his final day as pontiff on Thursday, and the New York Times' Rome bureau chief Rachel Donadio sent him on his way from Vatican City under a dark cloud: "As Pope Departs, ...
3/1/2013 11:24 AM ET
The Times finally reacts to the Bob Woodward-White House dust-up, and comes down on the side of Obama's White House. "To some Republican politicians and conservative activists,
Mr. Woodward’s ...
2/28/2013 3:42 PM ET
New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel saw a controversial
candidate on one side of the Virginia governor's race, perhaps the
biggest political race this year – Republican Kenneth Cuccinelli, ...
2/28/2013 2:11 PM ET
The New York Times has a history of attacking opponents of
radical Islam or offensively blaming an unwelcoming Western society for driving
some young Muslims to commit terrorist slayings. ...
2/28/2013 1:47 PM ET
Spinning the sequester in the New York Times. After weeks of cringing in fear over the supposedly damaging federal cuts due to take effect tomorrow
(even as the public shrugs them off) Jonathan ...
2/27/2013 2:22 PM ET
New York Times reporter Kirk Johnson, hypersensitive to conservative retreat
in the Western states, used an upcoming Supreme Court case as an
excuse to lead more cheers for gay rights in ...
2/27/2013 12:16 PM ET
Writing on the looming sequestration, the Times' Binyamin Appelbaum insisted that an $85 billion reduction in the growth of federal spending this year was actually "austerity," and the Times ...
2/27/2013 8:03 AM ET
The New York Times scattered across the country and brought back sequester horror stories: "The owner of a Missouri smokehouse that
makes beef jerky is worried about a slowdown in food safety ...
2/26/2013 2:36 PM ET
A columnist mocks the Times nearly 10,000-word magazine cover story on the evils of addictive junk food: "...you are supposed to be absolutely horrified by this. You can tell by the ominous ...
2/26/2013 1:34 PM ET
"The owner of a Missouri smokehouse that
makes beef jerky is worried about a slowdown in food safety inspections.
A Montana school district is drawing up a list of teachers who could
face ...
2/26/2013 11:54 AM ET
Reporter Jeremy Peters says there's nothing to see here: "Independent political groups have mobilized to try to dig up anything
unflattering on Mr. Hagel. Though they have not found much, the ...
2/26/2013 10:32 AM ET
New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer missed the point in
her take on Michelle Obama's "star turn" on Oscar night: "...the question of whether it was proper or dignified or awesome
for ...
2/25/2013 7:39 PM ET
No, not Papua New Guinea! Personal finance reporter Tara Siegel Bernard: "It is no secret that when it comes to
paid parental leave, the United States is among the least generous in
the world, ...
2/25/2013 3:02 PM ET
No, not Papua New Guinea! Personal finance reporter Tara Siegel Bernard: "It is no secret that when it comes to
paid parental leave, the United States is among the least generous in
the world, ...
2/25/2013 2:04 PM ET
The New York Times glimpses the cold hand of "austerity" in a $3,500-billion dollar federal budget? "Cuts of even larger size are scheduled to take effect every year over the next 10, signaling an ...
2/25/2013 1:06 PM ET
Really? Times fashion reporter Eric Lipton: "It
was shocking in a way to see fashion like the dress worn by Anne
Hathaway. Her last-moment choice was a pale pink dress that appeared to
have ...
2/22/2013 12:42 PM ET
Times reporter Matthew Wald blows some hot air in the name of dramatizing imminent federal budget cuts: "Airlines and airports across the country are preparing for
across-the-board federal ...
2/22/2013 12:10 PM ET
Friday's lead editorial encapsulates the Times' approach to public policy in its headline: "Why Taxes Have to Go Up." The paper's arguments are geared toward class warfare: "To reduce the deficit ...
2/22/2013 11:42 AM ET
A lead Times story celebrated "G.O.P. Governors Providing a Lift For Health Law."
The most notable convert: Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who reversed his
position this week and announced his ...
