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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Racially Inflammatory Al Sharpton Gets Another Pass in the Times

Times again skips Tawana Brawley and "white interlopers" to celebrate Sharpton at leisure: "Unmistakable and formidable, if a physically reduced version of the man he once was, the Rev. Al ...

Another Times Attack on an Opponent of Radical Islam

Reporter Laurie Goodstein attacks Brigitte Gabriel, an opponent of radical Islam, on Tuesday's front page: "She presents a portrait of Islam so thoroughly bent on destruction and domination that ...

Steinhauer Overdoses on 'Conservatives' in DOMA Debate, Finds No Liberals

Jennifer Steinhauer's labeling disparity on the Defense of Marriage Act: "Representative Raúl Labrador, a conservative freshman from Idaho, has not mentioned the issue, said Phil Hardy, his ...

Times Inhales Free-Market Fumes in Defense of Medical Marijuana in Montana

Kirk Johnson's reporting is not known for its sympathy toward business or conservatives. But he made a fine free-market argument in support of a liberal priority in Montana - medical marijuana: ...

Zernike Switches From Tea Party to Wisconsin, Maintains Hostility Toward Conservatives

Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike covers the left-wing protests in Madison, but retains her hostility toward the conservative movement, claiming a $43,000 donation made the Koch brothers "large ...

Slow News Day? Obama White House 'Happier Workplace' Thanks to New Team

Jackie Calmes tackles the tough stories: "Nonetheless, staff members describe a happier workplace with clearer lines of authority and less fear of being chided by the often brusque Mr. Emanuel. ...

Lori Berenson Terror Whitewash 'Classic Times Magazine Story,' Says New Editor

The new editor-in-chief for the Sunday Magazine praises his first cover story on terrorist collaborator Lori Berenson with embarrassingly simplistic misinformation: "...a New Yorker who moved to ...

Radical Chic: NY Times Relaunches Magazine with Hagiography of Terrorist Helper Lori Berenson

For the third time in 10 months the New York Times sympathizes for Manhattanite girl turned Peruvian terrorist helper Lori Berenson, this time with a magazine portrait by novelist Jennifer Egan: ...

Radical Chic: Times Relaunches Magazine With Hagiography of Terrorist Helper Lori Berenson

For the third time in 10 months the Times sympathizes for Manhattanite girl turned Peruvian terrorist helper Lori Berenson, this time with a magazine portrait by novelist Jennifer Egan: "Such an ...

Front-Page Embrace for Free Speech of 'God Hates Fags' Folk, But Not for Political Speech

The lead sentence to Adam Liptak's lead story today on the free-speech victory for the funeral picketers of Westboro: "The First Amendment protects hateful protests at military funerals, the ...

Times Overdoes It on Huckabee-Obama 'Kenya' Flap, Truncates Quote

Reporter Michael Shear's initial story on the Obama-was-raised-in-Kenya controversy, "Huckabee Questions Obama's Birth Certificate," becomes the more accurate "Huckabee Talks, Incorrectly, Of ...

Times Leads National Section By Hitting Obama From Left on Tax Break

Michael Cooper's story is based on report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal group and popular source for the Times that the paper consistently fails to properly label ...

NY Times 'Ethicist' Columnist Randy Cohen Departs, Leaving Leftist Legacy Behind

According to the New York Times' veteran Sunday magazine "Ethicist" columnist, Bush was an incompetent and insane president who lied us into war, socialism is a good thing, Harvard Professor Henry ...

Village Voice Reporter Again Lionized; Paper Again Not Labeled as Lefty

Another Times story quotes a former Voice editor comparing veteran liberal muckraker Wayne Barrett, who helped Sen. Schumer beat Republican Sen. Al D'Amato in 1998, as the journalistic equivalent ...

Haberman Attacks NYC's Free Speech Hypocrisy on Removal of Pro-Life Billboard

Clyde Haberman hits a hypocritical decision by New York City officials to take down a provocative pro-life billboard: "New York, never at a loss for self-congratulatory words, regards itself as ...

'Ethicist' Columnist Randy Cohen Departs, Leaving Leftist Legacy Behind

According to the paper's veteran Sunday magazine columnist, Bush was an incompetent and insane president who lied us into war, socialism is a good thing, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates should ...

NY Times Skips Inconvenient Facts to Insist on 'Peaceful,' 'Nonviolent' Nature of Wisconsin Protests

The New York Times took pains to emphasize the nonviolent nature of the ongoing pro-union protests over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's plan to limit collective bargaining for government unions: ...

Times Skips Inconvenient Facts to Insist on 'Peaceful,' 'Nonviolent' Nature of Wisconsin Protests

The Times took pains to emphasize the nonviolent nature of the ongoing pro-union protests over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's plan to limit collective bargaining for government unions: "Although ...

Krugman: U.S. Students 'Could Learn A Little Bit' From Violent Riots in UK, France

Talking to the University of Oklahoma's student newspaper, did Paul Krugman, respected economist turned partisan liberal columnist, really suggest American college students start rioting about ...

The Times Takes Two More Left Jabs at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

The Times just keeps jabbing at New Jersey's budget-cutting Gov. Chris Christie. Reporter Richard Perez-Pena: "Taking credit for leading the way on fiscal austerity under such conditions, they ...