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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1/11/2011 1:42 PM ET
After a radical Muslim Army officer killed a dozen soldiers in Texas, the Times editorialized "it will be important to avoid drawing prejudicial conclusions from the fact that Major Hasan is an ...
1/11/2011 12:06 PM ET
Reporter Matt Bai: "...the problem would seem to rest with the political leaders who pander to the margins of the margins....Consider the comments of Sharron Angle, the Tea Party favorite who ...
1/11/2011 11:40 AM ET
The Times twice cites Arizona's "fierce" devotion to guns and questions the "passionate gun culture in Arizona, which crosses political lines and is notable for its fierceness, even in the West." ...
1/11/2011 11:16 AM ET
The Times finds motivations for an insane person's murderous rampage in the Arizona air: "Still, the shootings came after a disconcerting run of episodes in this district of mountains and desert, ...
1/11/2011 10:43 AM ET
The Times avoids labeling the irresponsible left-wing critics of Sarah Palin: "Under criticism that her political rhetoric had helped create a climate for political violence, Sarah Palin addressed ...
1/11/2011 8:26 AM ET
Behold Krugman's sanctimonious motivated sorrow: "When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity ...
1/10/2011 9:23 PM ET
The New York Times played up comments by the local sheriff in Tucson blaming conservative political rhetoric for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, and Sarah Palin's 2010 campaign map shares ...
1/10/2011 11:58 AM ET
According to reporter Jennifer Steinhauer, Arizona "found itself increasingly on the defensive against notions that it is a hothouse of hateful language and violent proclivities." She went on to ...
1/10/2011 11:31 AM ET
An unbiased fount of facts? "Some people who study right-wing militia groups and those who align themselves with the so-called Patriot movement said Mr. Loughner's comments on subjects like the ...
1/10/2011 8:13 AM ET
Krugman on Monday: "When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen? Put me in the latter ...
1/10/2011 7:38 AM ET
The Times plays up comments by the local sheriff in Tucson blaming conservative political rhetoric for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, and Sarah Palin's 2010 campaign map shares blame: "Ms. ...
1/7/2011 12:27 PM ET
A bombing "prompted concerns that national cohesion was being threatened by the spread of religious extremism among Muslims and Christians," according to a front-page story by Michael Slackman, ...
1/7/2011 11:55 AM ET
Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer seems a little crabby about Republicans reading the Constitution on the House floor: "If you are a member of the House and you plan to read the text of the ...
1/7/2011 10:56 AM ET
Could Times "conservative" columnist David Brooks become Obama's press secretary? Politico speculates: "David Brooks is one of the few columnists Obama is known to read with respect..."
1/6/2011 7:31 PM ET
The New York Times' Congressional reporter claimed that rules proposed by the new Republican majority "would permit repeal of the health care legislation, which was estimated to save the ...
1/6/2011 3:21 PM ET
Behold the great free-speech liberal on his Twitter feed: "If censoring Huck Finn will help get a great book back on h.s. reading lists, isn't that worth it?" Meanwhile, the paper's editorial page ...
1/6/2011 1:51 PM ET
The paper's congressional reporter claims that rules proposed by the new Republican majority "would permit repeal of the health care legislation, which was estimated to save the government more ...
1/5/2011 2:54 PM ET
After the shock departure of two of its veteran reporters, Jeremy Peters ponders the future of the "muckraking" Village Voice, without a hint of its proud tradition of counter-cultural leftism.
1/5/2011 1:04 PM ET
After being beaten to the punch by local TV and the New York Post, the Times tentatively tackled charges that sanitation workers sabotaged the cleanup after last week's city blizzard - but only ...
1/5/2011 12:42 PM ET
The front of the Times told a heart-rending story from the Arizona border, of a pregnant Mexican woman being deported who had tried to waddle north to America for a better life. Reporter Marc ...
