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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5/25/2012 12:22 PM ET
The usual pro-Obama tilt in postings to the New York Times' political blog was even more pronounced during the week of
May 21-25. As of
noon Friday, out of 23 matching posts, the headlines ...
5/24/2012 12:46 PM ET
Maureen Dowd takes two column shots at the Vatican for allowing no criticism or second-guessing: "The bishops and the Vatican care passionately about putting women in chastity belts....Absolute ...
5/24/2012 11:03 AM ET
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes: "As a candidate and as president, Mr.
Obama has avoided discussing race except in rare instances when he
seemed to have little choice -- ...
5/23/2012 2:16 PM ET
The Times praised "an uneventful
weekend" of anti-NATO protests in Chicago -- but there were 90 arrests, anti-cop violence, and a foiled terrorist plot. The paper also strove to portray ...
5/23/2012 12:28 PM ET
New York Times White House reporter Jackie Calmes stacks her sources 5-1 in favor of raising taxes to close the deficit, and tries to nudge Congress into supporting them: "Tax increases were part ...
5/22/2012 2:11 PM ET
Journalist Joe "flaming moderate" Klein pronounced himself offended by "radical Republican" Jonah Goldberg's new book The Tyranny of Cliches, arguing that "liberals stopped being statists a long ...
5/22/2012 11:52 AM ET
The paper got what it paid for: Time Magazine's self-proclaimed "raging moderate" Joe Klein pans Jonah Goldberg's latest book in the New York Times. Goldberg responds point by point, in withering ...
5/21/2012 3:25 PM ET
Times reporter Michael Shear rips into Drudge, Breitbart for reporting news: "But the issues of race and religion never go completely away, at least in some extreme quarters of the American ...
5/21/2012 2:25 PM ET
What happened between Thursday and Sunday that cause the Occupy protest movement to disappear from the Times' radar? The Times on Thursday, before violence at the NATO summit in Chicago: ...
5/18/2012 2:39 PM ET
Times reporter Campbell Robertson portrays an Alabama immigration law he dislikes as under siege, and finds "conservative" supporters but only "civil rights groups," not liberals, on the other ...
5/18/2012 12:02 PM ET
According to New York Times legal reporter Charlie Savage, the Tea Party is "conservative," but leftist Noam Chomsky is merely a "dissident thinker." And no label or identification for Chris ...
5/17/2012 3:12 PM ET
The New York Times actually runs a story about Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright on the front page...but one that is critical of a GOP campaign plan to attack Wright. A Times reporter finds the ...
5/17/2012 1:19 PM ET
Thursday's New York Times runs a front-page story on police "missteps" in the investigation of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. But the Times has committed some questionable decisions in its ...
5/16/2012 1:58 PM ET
Is there only one correct stand to take on gay rights? Reporters Helene Cooper and Jeremy Peters confirm media admission that they are universally supportive of gay marriage: "Justice Lewis Powell ...
5/15/2012 2:10 PM ET
Columnist Frank Bruni aims down: "Say what you will about Bristol
Palin, she’s a quick study. It didn’t take her long to master the ways
of her elders on the censorious right and decide that ...
5/15/2012 1:00 PM ET
The New York Times covered
President Obama's plea to women's voters disguised as a commencement
address at a woman's college in Manhattan: "In Graduation Speech to Women, Obama Leaps Into ...
5/15/2012 10:53 AM ET
Not until paragraph 15 of 19 do we learn Obama trails Romney by three: "With less than six months until the election, Mr. Obama remains
in a tight race with Mr. Romney. A month ago, a Times/CBS ...
5/14/2012 3:11 PM ET
Capitalists are psychopaths, explains a writer for the left-wing Nation, in Sunday's NYT: "There is an ongoing debate in this
country about the rich: who they are, what their social role may be, ...
5/14/2012 2:29 PM ET
The Tea Party, previously marginalized by the New York Times as losing effectiveness, made Sunday's front page for endangering moderate deal-makers in the GOP with its "conservative fervor" and ...
5/11/2012 1:38 PM ET
Times reporters Monica Davey and Trip Gabriel hype a Democrat's chances against a Tea Party Senate candidate in Indiana: "Democratic leaders, who had
doubted their odds against Mr. Lugar, a ...
