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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2/25/2011 10:21 AM ET
Columnist Paul Krugman uses Naomi Klein's anti-capitalist paranoia tome "The Shock Doctrine" to criticize Gov. Scott Walker's move to get public-sector unions to pay a larger share of their ...
2/25/2011 6:56 AM ET
A Nexis search shows Times reporters have used "hard-right" five times in the last two years, and the paper's liberal columnists employ it regularly. By contrast, no Times reporter, columnist, or ...
2/24/2011 3:46 PM ET
A Nexis search indicates Times reporters have used hard-right five times in the last two years, and the paper's liberal columnist employ it regularly. By contrast, no Times reporter, columnist, or ...
2/24/2011 12:56 PM ET
Phoenix bureau chief Marc Lacey shows his usual fair-and-balanced outlook on immigration enforcement: "Despite boycotts and accusations that the state has become a haven of intolerance, Arizona ...
2/24/2011 12:30 PM ET
The paper greeted the news the Obama administration had decided the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional with big lead-story play and predictable labeling imbalance, presenting supporters of ...
2/23/2011 2:50 PM ET
Reporter David Halbfinger relays what unions find "most galling" about the "pugnacious and boastful" Gov. Christie's budget proposals. He displayed far more empathy toward Connecticut's Democratic ...
2/23/2011 12:28 PM ET
Over the years columnist Tom Friedman has written on the costs of the Iraq war, the federal deficit, the threat of global warming, and the uprisings in the Arab world, disparate problems that ...
2/23/2011 11:41 AM ET
Education columnist Michael Winerip lauds a Dream Act activist, just the latest in a long history of support for the liberal legislation, that would provide amnesty for illegal students: "Isabel ...
2/22/2011 4:14 PM ET
Was the question raised Saturday by the New York Times really "inevitable"? "The parallels raise the inevitable question: Is Wisconsin the Tunisia of collective bargaining rights?" The paper's ...
2/22/2011 2:21 PM ET
Paul Krugman on Wisconsin: "What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin - and eventually, America - less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style ...
2/22/2011 1:47 PM ET
Joining the rest of the media in challenging prominent Republicans to denounce the "birthers," the Times overstates the facts in Palin's case. And where was the paper's outrage against conspiracy ...
2/22/2011 11:57 AM ET
Double standards on outside political groups in Madison: Americans for Prosperity "created and financed in part by the secretive billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch." Yet "officials ...
2/21/2011 3:49 PM ET
Or maybe not so "inevitable" a question: "The parallels raise the inevitable question: Is Wisconsin the Tunisia of collective bargaining rights?" The front-page story also ignored the hateful ...
2/21/2011 3:09 PM ET
Adam Nagourney writes his favorite kind of story, about backlash against Republican overreaching: "But in the view of officials from both major political parties, Republicans may be risking the ...
2/21/2011 2:13 PM ET
Frank Rich dredges up the Tucson smear: "Six weeks after that horrific day in Tucson, America has half-forgotten its violent debate over the power of violent speech to incite violence...In the ...
2/18/2011 2:44 PM ET
Plus the "advocates for women's health" at Planned Parenthood, and Bill Keller tries his hand at stand up.
2/18/2011 1:50 PM ET
Eric Eckholm's idea of balanced reporting on abortion provider Planned Parenthood: "Now, in a surprise step that has set off deep alarm among advocates for women's health, the newly conservative ...
2/18/2011 1:26 PM ET
Plus: "Unimaginable" arrogance by the Times on WikiLeaks, the "Advocates for Women's Health" at Planned Parenthood, and former partisan union boss John Sweeney as a secular saint.
2/18/2011 11:20 AM ET
Hypocritical concern for Thomas's reputation: "When the Supreme Court hears arguments next week, it will mark the fifth anniversary of Justice Clarence Thomas's silence during oral argument - ...
2/17/2011 3:31 PM ET
Another Times writer gives Obama a "Yes, but," pass on his lack of budgetary leadership: "Mr. Obama would seem to be taking the more balanced approach. True, Mr. Obama didn't act on his own debt ...
