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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1/19/2011 12:23 PM ET
The Times suddenly hedges its journalistic rush to judgment on what caused the Tucscon shootings: "No one has suggested that his use of a hallucinogenic herb or any other drugs contributed to ...
1/19/2011 10:26 AM ET
P.J. O'Rourke on the Times' coverage of Tucson: "In the matter of self-serving, bitter, calculated cynicism, there wouldn't seem to be much left to prove against the Times. Judging by what I've ...
1/18/2011 1:17 PM ET
A Sunday editorial chides Republicans for refusing to change the name of an anti-"job-killing" bill. But a Tuesday headline reads: "Where News Is Power, A Fight to Be Well-Armed."
1/18/2011 12:30 PM ET
News editor Rick Berke defends the Times politicized coverage of the rampage in Tucson: "After all, a politician was shot in the head while meeting with constituents. That same lawmaker had her ...
1/18/2011 12:03 PM ET
Labeling disparity: In a story on Congress marking the shootings in Tucson, the Times notes that two senators will be sitting together at Obama's upcoming State of the Union address: Tom Coburn, a ...
1/18/2011 10:20 AM ET
Columnist Frank Rich weighs in on the Tucson shootings in predictable fashion by blaming the GOP: "Few wanted to see what Giffords saw - that the vandalism and death threats were the latest ...
1/17/2011 5:54 PM ET
The New York Times twice attributed Tucson shooter Jared Loughner's nutty views to "right-wing extremist groups" - yet failed to call his 9-11 Truth beliefs or loathing of President Bush leftist ...
1/17/2011 3:16 PM ET
Who blamed conservatives? Not us: "Commentators on the right were quick to condemn their perennial adversaries, including The New York Times, for drawing a cause-and-effect relationship between ...
1/17/2011 2:11 PM ET
In an article on the Tucson shootings, reporter Matt Bai falsely attacks Republicans for questioning Democratic Sen. Max Cleland in a 2002 campaign ad: "...any sense of common purpose had more or ...
1/17/2011 1:46 PM ET
The Times twice attributed Loughner's nutty views to "right-wing extremist groups" - yet failed to call his 9-11 Truth beliefs or loathing of President Bush leftist or liberal.
1/14/2011 1:44 PM ET
Linda Greenhouse, the Times' former Supreme Court reporter and confessed liberal, describes the Constitution as a document that moves with the Times: "...the Constitution is a participant in a ...
1/14/2011 12:13 PM ET
Here's Krugman trying to be fair to his political enemies, who prefer their "capitalism red in tooth and claw": "The other side believes that people have a right to keep what they earn, and that ...
1/14/2011 11:56 AM ET
The Times tries to drag the NRA into the Arizona shooting debate under the regretful headline "Sadness Aside, No Shift Seen On Gun Laws." The lead sentence to a front-page story by Adam Nagourney ...
1/13/2011 2:52 PM ET
Michael Shear reveals a stark double standard in his treatment of Sarah Palin's self-defense compared to President Obama's address to the nation.
1/13/2011 2:04 PM ET
Gail Collins admitted her proposal might not work, but wants Congress to prove it can defy the National Rifle Association, while Nicholas Kristof calls for a 28-day waiting period before buying a ...
1/13/2011 1:26 PM ET
From a "news" story by Campbell Robertson: "Governor [Haley] Barbour...has also, however, been dogged by statements that suggest a considerably old-fashioned, even blinkered, view of history, ...
1/13/2011 11:36 AM ET
Times reporters and editors disapproved of Palin's use of "blood libel" to describe journalists who blamed political rhetoric for the shootings in Arizona. Here's columnist Frank Rich, October ...
1/12/2011 3:32 PM ET
Adam Nagourney finds another Arizonan besides the shooter to attack: "But fairly or not, Arizona's image has been forged in part because of Ms. Brewer herself, who has been identified with the ...
1/12/2011 12:06 PM ET
Public Editor Arthur Brisbane has a problem with the paper putting columns on the front page: "The Times's decision to place it on Page 1 that posed the difficulty, sending the message that The ...
1/11/2011 4:55 PM ET
After a Muslim officer killed a dozen soldiers at Fort Hood, the New York Times editorialized "it will be important to avoid drawing prejudicial conclusions from the fact that Major Hasan is an ...
