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Times Watch has just released a new special report, Supremely Slanted: How the Times Pounds Conservatives and Coddles Liberals on the Supreme Court.
In it, Times Watch analyzed the arc of coverage over the last two decades and the last seven Supreme Court justices, from Clarence Thomas's nomination in 1991 to Elena Kagan's confirmation in 2010, and found stark differences in how the Times reported on the four Justices nominated by Democrats versus the three nominated by Republicans.
Times Watch examined every substantive New York Times news story on each nomination. Among the findings were a stark pro-Democratic double standard in labeling:
* The Times demonstrated a 10-1 disparity in labeling "conservative" justices nominated by Republicans compared to "liberal" ones nominated by Democrats.
* The three Republican-nominated justices were labeled "conservative" 105 times, while the four justices nominated by Democrats were labeled liberal on a mere 14 occasions.
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- Clay Waters, director of Times Watch
