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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1/28/2011 2:25 PM ET
Given the importance the Times gives toward the financial situation of the wives of subjects, one wonders how the paper managed to miss it when one of its own economics reporters, Edmund Andrews, ...
1/28/2011 1:49 PM ET
Does David Firestone not know the federal government does enforce light-bulb standards? "The three Republicans portrayed government as a grim juggernaut that kills jobs and dreams and even, in Ms. ...
1/28/2011 1:23 PM ET
A Times movie critic celebrates the message of a film "about double lives, the violence that can lurk inside those who cannot face themselves and the laudable quest for gay marriage in the United ...
1/27/2011 2:47 PM ET
Jackie Calmes follows Obama to Wisconsin on his "victory lap" tour of factory floors, finds enthusiasm and applause for the president.
1/27/2011 1:43 PM ET
Paul Krugman on the superiority of the European welfare state: "On the one side, those strong safety nets have meant that the amount of sheer misery in Europe is considerably less than here....But ...
1/27/2011 1:18 PM ET
From London, critic Michael Kimmelman mocked conservative critics of the Smithsonian's sponsorship of an artist's clip showing ants crawling on a crucifix, a picture of which appears in the Times. ...
1/26/2011 5:55 PM ET
According to Sheryl Gay Stolberg in the New York Times, the GOP dashed Obama's attempt at fostering "good will" by issuing a rebuttal: "Still, the good will lasted only so long. Moments after Mr. ...
1/26/2011 3:45 PM ET
David Sanger: "At a moment when the momentum in Washington is driving toward slashing budgets and shrinking government, President Obama argued on Tuesday evening that the politics of austerity, ...
1/26/2011 1:51 PM ET
Republicans dashed Obama's attempt at fostering "good will" by issuing their standard rebuttal: "Still, the good will lasted only so long. Moments after Mr. Obama finished speaking, Representative ...
1/26/2011 1:36 PM ET
Matt Bai gushes: "Mr. Obama is probably the most talented writer to occupy the office in the television age; his political career was made possible, in large part, by the candid memoir he wrote as ...
1/25/2011 2:53 PM ET
White House reporter Peter Baker: "There is a compelling case that Obamanomics has produced results....The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, known as the stimulus, produced or saved at least ...
1/25/2011 11:28 AM ET
The Times did improve on its track record: This year's march was the subject of two photos in the newspaper, as opposed to being totally ignored in print the previous four years. The Times is far ...
1/24/2011 4:37 PM ET
Some truly goofy articles have appeared on the front of the Home section appealing to easily freaked-out liberal urbanites: Warnings over fluoridated water, celebrated a no impact couple living ...
1/24/2011 3:50 PM ET
Only the overdramatic columnist Frank Rich could find a political message in a Western remake: "The double-barreled success of 'True Grit,' then and now, spreads well beyond those conservative ...
1/24/2011 3:12 PM ET
Media reporter Brian Stelter "inverts the story" to make Glenn Beck a villain and a leftist advocate of violence a hero, claims the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto. "In the paper's telling, ...
1/21/2011 6:48 AM ET
In the aftermath of the killing in Tucson, Times reporters and commentators placed blame on conservative talk radio, Sarah Palin's campaign map, anti-immigration politics, hostility over ...
1/21/2011 6:41 AM ET
The Times eagerly pointed fingers at Sarah Palin, anti-immigration politics, guns, talk show hosts...anything but the actual person who killed six in an attempted assassination of Congresswoman ...
1/20/2011 4:10 PM ET
The Times let the founder of the left-wing Daily Kos blog do a victory lap upon Lieberman's announced retirement from the Senate. The paper was more respectful in saying farewell to the ...
1/20/2011 2:19 PM ET
After two weeks of lectures on the need for conservatives like Sarah Palin to cool their political vitriol, a Democrat Congressman likening Republican rhetoric on Obama-care to Joseph Goebbels and ...
1/20/2011 12:37 PM ET
Political reporter Matt Bai argues that the "divisive" Sarah Palin could make Obama look like more of a reformer: "...it's considerably easier if you can contrast yourself with an adversary who ...
