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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3/17/2011 1:29 PM ET
In his farewell column, Frank Rich admitted the job can push you to have stronger opinions than you actually have, or contrived opinions about subjects you may not care deeply about, or to run ...
3/17/2011 11:00 AM ET
Jeremy Peters praises Jay Carney, new White House press secretary and former Time magazine reporter: "Jay Carney has never been much of a partisan. His former colleagues at Time never knew which ...
3/17/2011 8:05 AM ET
Liberal sob stories and left-wing income statistics from New York Times reporter Sabrina Tavernise in defense of unionized public-sector workers in Ohio: "Now, as Ohio's legislature moves toward ...
3/16/2011 1:40 PM ET
FBI informant Brandon Darby filed suit against the Times last week after the paper falsely accused him of having encouraged a firebombing of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul. ...
3/16/2011 12:38 PM ET
Liberal sob stories and left-wing income statistics from Sabrina Tavernise in defense of unionized public-sector workers in Ohio: "Now, as Ohio's legislature moves toward final approval of a bill ...
3/15/2011 2:37 PM ET
After writing on how everything is global warming's fault, Elisabeth Rosenthal faults liberals for talking a good game on the environment, until things get too close: "Park Slope, Brooklyn. Cape ...
3/15/2011 1:48 PM ET
Times media reporter Jeremy Peters falsely implies that journalistic stunts like the one conservative James O'Keefe pulled against liberal National Public Radio were rare in the mainstream media ...
3/15/2011 1:32 PM ET
The paper's media columnist faults NPR's executives while blessings its reporting, and points to the necessity of publicly funded journalism: "I'll just skip the joke about a News Corporation ...
3/14/2011 3:11 PM ET
Times reporters are determined to wring victory out of the defeat by public-sector unions in Wisconsin, celebrating the filibustering Democratic politicians returning as "folk heroes" and the ...
3/14/2011 1:51 PM ET
After Executive Editor Bill Keller's latest attack on Fox News, Howard Kurtz inaccurately stated that The executive editor of The New York Times doesn't generally engage in trashing other news ...
3/11/2011 2:17 PM ET
The Times spun the defeat of public-sector unions in Wisconsin by Gov. Scott Walker as a long-term political victory for Democrats: Wisconsin Curbs Public Unions, But Democrats Predict Backlash" ...
3/11/2011 2:11 PM ET
Time Magazine: "Being a conservative voice in what is typically considered to be a more liberal newspaper than not, how exactly does that frame affect what you write?"
Columnist David Brooks: ...
3/11/2011 12:12 PM ET
Columnist Nicholas Kristof took the prize for most inane comment on Rep. Peter King's hearings: "I'm sure that at mosques around this country, especially the more radical mosques, this is going to ...
3/10/2011 3:18 PM ET
From the coffee crop in Colombia, to glaciers in Bolivia, homes in America, and ski resorts and golf courses...for reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal, seemingly everything can be blamed on "climate change."
3/10/2011 1:32 PM ET
Higher gas prices? No worries. In 2011, with gas at $3.57 a gallon, "the American economy may be better prepared for higher fuel costs....economists say the spike is unlikely to derail the rebound ...
3/10/2011 12:57 PM ET
More front-page sniping at Gov. Chris Christie by Richard Perez-Pena: "Statements like those are at the core of Gov. Chris Christie's campaign to cut state spending by getting tougher on unions. ...
3/9/2011 5:03 PM ET
Obama's reversal on closing Guantanamo Bay made the front of Tuesday's Washington Post but was buried on A19 of the New York Times, and was larded with strangely sympathetic left-wing quotes: ...
3/9/2011 1:17 PM ET
A hostile profile of conservative Florida Gov. Rick Scott faults him for not being liked by his own party. Yet the Times celebrated liberal Republican Gov. Charlie Crist for the same thing: "Rick ...
3/9/2011 12:53 PM ET
Obama's reversal on closing Guantanamo Bay made the front of Tuesday's Washington Post but was buried on A19 of the Times, and was larded with strangely sympathetic left-wing quotes: "Still, some ...
3/9/2011 12:02 PM ET
From the obituary for violent Communist revolutionary Che Guevara's traveling companion, by reporter Victoria Burnett: "They became close friends, sharing an intellectual curiosity, a mischievous ...
