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.
Author Articles
2/21/2013 12:50 PM ET
As if to make up for helping put the story into the
mainstream press, the New York Times is engaging in defense of
scandal-plagued Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez. Last Sunday the paper very ...
2/20/2013 12:19 PM ET
Obama the Good versus 'hazardous' budget cuts from the sequester, in the telling of Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes: "As the leader of the nation, Mr. Obama is eager to see an end to the ...
2/19/2013 1:57 PM ET
New York Times economics reporter (and wife of left-wing blogger Ezra Klein) Annie Lowrey again touts the resume of a "respected" left-wing economist who loves huge tax hikes and a higher minimum ...
2/19/2013 11:04 AM ET
New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel promoted movie star and aspiring liberal politician Ashley Judd: "Kentuckians Don’t Rule Out a Star as a Senator." Gabriel wrote: "How serious could such a ...
2/19/2013 9:38 AM ET
Maureen Dowd's column about the lack of veracity in the current crop of
award-nominated movies has some revelations on the true history behin "Lincoln." But Dowd is the last person to
credibly ...
2/18/2013 5:10 PM ET
Robert Draper in the Times magazine: "But [Lee] Atwater, the legendary R.N.C. chairman, did not have to worry
about freelance voices like Limbaugh and Todd Akin offending whole
swaths of ...
2/18/2013 2:27 PM ET
Reporter Jonathan Weisman is shocked, shocked to find partisanship in the U.S. Senate: "Without
naming names, Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, offered a
biting label for the ...
2/18/2013 1:48 PM ET
Eric Lipton made the front page of Sunday's Times with
a strange sort of rebuttal to the paper's investigation into
influence-peddling scandals surrounding Democratic
Sen. Robert Menendez: ...
2/18/2013 1:07 PM ET
Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus keeps going to liberal outlets and playing the race card against the GOP: "Republicans looked pretty good on civil rights under Eisenhower. We
had the ...
2/15/2013 1:12 PM ET
The New York Times ran a front-page story on Maureen
O'Connor, the newly disgraced former mayor of San Diego who
lost at least $13 million in casinos over the years, wagering a
staggering $1 ...
2/15/2013 11:55 AM ET
Vanity Fair journalist Maureen Orth throws her hands up at the shifting stories regarding what Thompson knew about the Jimmy Savile sex-abuse controversy by the former BBC director general: "Today ...
2/15/2013 10:37 AM ET
Boo hoos on Chuck Hagel's delayed nomination from Times reporter Jeremy Peters: "Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked President Obama’s nominee to lead
the Pentagon in a defiant move likely to ...
2/14/2013 3:59 PM ET
Barack Obama simply can do no wrong. Reporter Ashley Parker: "As senators gathered Wednesday for the first hearing on the proposed
sweeping changes in immigration law, they said the president’s ...
2/14/2013 2:39 PM ET
From the start the Times has oozed sympathy for the plight of
Obama's nominee for secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, warning darkly of
the disappearance of congressional "comity" and ...
2/13/2013 3:30 PM ET
There was an era of "single-minded deficit-cutting?" When? NYT's Mark Landler: "Mr. Obama also signaled, however, that the era of single-minded
deficit-cutting should end. He noted that the ...
2/13/2013 1:31 PM ET
Richard Stevenson was dismissive of "the conservative mantra that nearly all problems can be
traced back to excess government" and criticized Obama's "more extreme conservative
critics" for ...
2/12/2013 3:18 PM ET
Former New York Times editor in chief Bill Keller snidely took
on the Christian family who runs Hobby Lobby, which is resisting on
religious grounds the contraceptive mandate in Obama-care. ...
2/12/2013 10:52 AM ET
From the Times main article on Pope Benedict's shocking resignation: "The resignation sets up a struggle between the staunchest conservatives,
in Benedict’s mold, who advocated a smaller church ...
2/12/2013 8:42 AM ET
Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus cowardly links the GOP to racism: "Character, he presumably meant, like that exhibited by Republican
delegates in Tampa, who thrilled to the refrain 'We ...
2/11/2013 1:16 PM ET
James Taranto, tongue in cheek, criticizes a Times reporter who found "shockingly bad care" in a British hospital: "We certainly hope the Times's public editor sets Lyall straight. After all, as ...
