http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/archive.aspx Exposing the Liberal Bias of the New York Times http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 20120210010342 Clay Waters Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:03:00 -0400 Label-happy at the annual conservapalooza: The Times' dispatch from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) contains 23 examples of the word "conservative." By way of comparison, the common conjunction "and" appears 24 times. Michael Shear, Erik Eckholm, CPAC, Labeling Bias, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120210010342.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20120210113639 Clay Waters Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:36:00 -0400 The Times is particularly sensitive to people (like Rep. Michele Bachmann did at CPAC) accusing Obama of "apologizing for America" overseas, and criticism in general: "Mrs. Bachmann was taking several liberties with the facts in her remarks about Mr. Obama. He has not apologized to the world, for instance." Erik Eckholm, Arthur Brisbane, Fact Checking, Michele Bachmann, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120210113639.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Eric_Eckholm.jpg 20120209125729 Clay Waters Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:57:00 -0400 The Times editorial page editor makes excuses for Obama's broken promise to close Guantanamo Bay, and ignores liberals' anti-Bush hypocrisy on the issue: "Mr. Obama never really made a 'decision' to keep the prison open. He failed to follow through on the announcement that he would close it, and then let himself get rolled by Congressional Republicans when members of his administration tried to keep the promise." Andrew Rosenthal, Guantanamo Bay, Poll, Hypocrisy, Editorial http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120209125729.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Andrew_Rosenthal.jpg 20120209122518 Clay Waters Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:24:00 -0400 Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer portrayed the religious freedom fight over birth control in cynical political terms, showcasing Republicans as being opportunistic in opposition to Obama's requirement that Catholic universities violate their religious beliefs by offering free birth control in their health plans. Jennifer Steinhauer, Birth Control, Religion, Catholic Church, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120209122518.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20120208015326 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:53:00 -0400 Why they pay Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal the big bucks: "I understand that the Catholic Church in particular feels strongly about birth control, but this isn't a theocracy." Columnist Charles Blow chimes in: "If I had my druthers, they'd pass it out in church." Andrew Rosenthal, Charles Blow, Birth Control, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Religion, Catholic Church, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120208015326.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Charles_Blow.jpg 20120208113147 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:31:00 -0400 The liberal Times editorial page feels betrayed by President Obama's embrace of Super PACs, reversing his position on campaign finance: "He is also telling the country that simply getting re-elected is bigger than standing on principle." Andrew Rosenthal, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Editorial http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120208113147.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Andrew_Rosenthal.jpg 20120207031951 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:19:00 -0400 Obama decides that Super PACs aren't such a "threat to democracy" after all, but the Times barely acknowledges the flip-flop: "...a milestone in Mr. Obamas evolving stances on political fund-raising." Barack Obama, Jeff Zeleny, Jim Rutenberg, SuperPACS, Fundraising, Hypocrisy, Bias By Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120207031951.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/SuperPAC.jpg 20120207015436 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:54:00 -0400 Helene Cooper: "Both moments were perceived by the Obama re-election campaign as another gift from Mr. Romney - now dubbed 'the gift that keeps on giving' by some on the Obama team." Helene Cooper, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120207015436.aspx 20120207124644 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:46:00 -0400 Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak conflates constitutional rights with entitlements: "But the Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many words, a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education and health care." Adam Liptak, Supreme Court, Constitution, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120207124644.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/AdamLiptak.jpg 20120206031905 Clay Waters Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:19:00 -0400 Reporters rush to Obama's defense: How dare Romney say Obama has made the economy worse! "It was a dubious statement, because the unemployment rate fell to precisely what it was during Mr. Obama's first full month in office, February 2009, and nonideological economists agree that the stimulus actions taken by the administration and the Federal Reserve kept the recession from being worse." Trip Gabriel, Economy, Newt Gingrich, Ashley Parker, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, George Soros, Koch Brothers, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120206031905.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Trip_Gabriel.jpg 20120206013402 Clay Waters Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:33:00 -0400 Michael Grynbaum: "But thanks to exquisite timing, an ear for the zeitgeist and an assist from the momentum and immediacy of the Internet, a $250,000 pledge from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to Planned Parenthood on Thursday turned into one of his biggest political coups in years...The donation...reflected the mayor's longtime support for the causes of reproductive rights and women's health." The Times skipped the less-flattering side of Bloomberg's enthusiasm for abortion. Michael Grynbaum, Michael Bloomberg, Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Komen, Breast Cancer, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120206013402.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/PP.jpg 20120206110103 Clay Waters Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0400 Douthat: "From the nightly news shows to print and online media, the coverage's tone alternated between wonder and outrage - wonder that anyone could possibly find Planned Parenthood even remotely controversial and outrage that the Komen foundation had 'politicized' the cause of women's health....Conservative complaints about media bias are sometimes overdrawn. But on the abortion issue, the press's prejudices are often absolute, its biases blatant and its blinders impenetrable. In many newsrooms and television studios across the country, Planned Parenthood is regarded as the equivalent of, well, the Komen foundation: an apolitical, high-minded and humanitarian institution whose work no rational person - and certainly no self-respecting woman - could possibly question or oppose." Ross Douthat, Abortion, Media Bias, Planned Parenthood, Komen, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120206110103.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Douthat_New-articleInline-v2.jpg 20120203040850 Clay Waters Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:08:00 -0400 Friday's lead story celebrated the social media outcry among "the growing number of people online, mostly women, who decried what they view as the politicization of women's health care," which would later that day force Komen to capitulate to the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Komen, Breast Cancer, Planned Parenthood, Gardiner Harris, Jennifer Preston, Andrew Rosenthal http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120203040850.aspx 20120203022639 Clay Waters Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:26:00 -0400 More Texas liberalism in the "news" section: "The hypothesis here - and an election is a fast way to test it - is that even conservatives want government to function. Maybe they don't like the state's cuts in education and health and human services, or sitting in crowded traffic on underbuilt highway systems, or watching grass wilt in the face of a record drought in a state whose government won't finance its water plan." Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune, Conservatives, Spending, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120203022639.aspx 20120203011612 Clay Waters Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:16:00 -0400 Suddenly it's not courageous to disagree with the leaders of your religion: "Romney's Tough Immigration View Is at Odds With His Church." Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein even showed respect for Mormon theology: "...it identifies with the immigrant experience, having fled persecution before settling in Utah; and it places a strong premium on keeping families intact, in this life and the next." Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney, Mormons, Double Standards, Proposition 8, Religion, Laurie Goodstein, Illegal Immigration, Utah, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120203011612.aspx 20120202031350 Clay Waters Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:13:00 -0400 Jennifer Medina sympathetically covers the plight of California immigrants who were fired for failing to come up with proof of legal residence, but fails to ask the obvious question: Were they in the United States illegally or not? Illegal Immigration, Jennifer Medina, California, Education, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120202031350.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Medina.jpg 20120202023407 Clay Waters Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:34:00 -0400 Reporters Gardiner Harris and Pam Belluck claim that "Only a small percentage of Planned Parenthood's expenditures go toward abortion services." Yet the Times also admitted PP was "the nation's largest abortion provider." The reporters also decried the group "being the target of partisan investigations....So Komen's new rule effectively ended their long partnership and seemed to the health services provider an unacceptable betrayal of their common mission to save women's lives." Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Komen, Breast Cancer, Gardiner Harris, Pam Belluck http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120202023407.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Komen.jpg 20120202011220 Clay Waters Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:12:00 -0400 Well, it's slightly better than "greedy titan," which is the insult Times reporters relayed in January. Mitt Romney, Very Poor, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120202011220.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ashley_Parker.JPG 20120201021911 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:19:00 -0400 The Times online has "Room for Debate" to mock some religions, including Mormonism: "I wouldn't buy the underwear just yet....[the Mormon Church] has used its mobilizing genius to pursue political goals, and individual Mormons have obeyed like sheep." Would the Times mock the rituals of devout Muslims or compare them to sheep? Mormons, Islam, Room for Debate, Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney, Religion http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120201021911.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mormons_Rock.jpg 20120201122451 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:24:00 -0400 The Times sees in Romney "a willingness to descend into the muck and run a relentlessly negative campaign....Mr. Romney has never been especially squeamish about negative campaigning. As jarring as his tone has seemed over the past 10 days, he has a long history of resorting to such tactics." Ashley Parker, Michael Barbaro, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, Negative Campaigning, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120201122451.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Romney_FL.jpg 20120131040308 Clay Waters Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:03:00 -0400 Did the Times learn nothing about rushing to judgement from its Duke lacrosse "rape" hoax debacle? Even as the case fell apart, the Times issued a now-notorious, error-riddled 5,000-word story concluding there was enough evidence for the soon-to-be-disgraced local prosecutor to bring the case to trial. Now, the Times has another college sports expose from another bastion of privilege, Yale University. Richard Perez-Pena's bombshell, based on anonymous sources, involves an informal campus accusation of sexual assault against Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, who turned down the chance to becoming a Rhodes scholar to play against arch-rival Harvard. Richard Perez-Pena, Patrick Witt, Yale University, Sexual Assault, Athletics, Duke University, Rape Hoax, Lacrosse http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120131040308.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Richard_Perez_Pena.jpg 20120131021240 Clay Waters Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:12:00 -0400 Breaking with standard Times practice when liberal activists challenge conservative rule changes, reporter Denise Grady gave far more news space to supporters of the change wrought by Obama, beginning and ending with a Fordham University birth control activist. Denise Grady, Catholics, Abortion, Obama-Care, Health Insurance http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120131021240.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Dunlap.jpg 20120130040931 Clay Waters Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:09:00 -0400 Reporter Emily Ramshaw sympathizes with abortion clinic owners about new Texas laws requiring state abortion clinics to show a mother seeking an abortion a sonogram of her baby - or as Ramshaw calls it, showing "pregnant patients the image of the fetus." Emily Ramshaw, Abortion, Texas, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120130040931.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Emily_Ramshaw.jpg 20120130031219 Clay Waters Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:12:00 -0400 Mark Landler gushed: "In a delicious coincidence for the White House, the author is Robert Kagan, a neoconservative historian and commentator who advises Mr. Romney." Landler also used commentator Fareed Zakaria to praise Obama without noting his own reporting that Zakaria has advised Obama on foreign policy. Mark Landler, Fareed Zakaria, Thomas Friedman, Barack Obama, Robert Kagan, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120130031219.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mark_Landler.JPG 20120130024402 Clay Waters Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:43:00 -0400 Columnist Thomas Friedman forwards Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's insulting the "idiocy and ignorance" of Republican candidates, adding "When Marxists are complaining that your party's candidates are disconnected from today's global realities, it's generally not a good sign." But isn't it a very good sign when dictators disagree with you? Thomas Friedman, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Campaign 2012, China, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120130024402.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_Rose_12_16_11 - Copy.jpg 20120127032322 Clay Waters Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:23:00 -0400 Helene Cooper: "While it is difficult to judge whether the moment will have any lasting impact, Hispanic leaders said that what is being dubbed by some as the 'dustup in the desert' could play in the president's favor given the unfavorable view many Hispanics have of the governor for her advocacy of tough immigration measures." Helene Cooper, Arizona, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Jan Brewer, Hispanics, Washington Times, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120127032322.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Obama_LV.jpg 20120127024157 Clay Waters Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:41:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "Mr. Gingrich, Democrats and Republicans here agree, emerged as one of Washington's most aggressive practitioners of slash-and-burn politics; many fault him for erasing whatever civility once existed in the capital." Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Newt Gingrich, Campaign 2012, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120127024157.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20120127090046 Clay Waters Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0400 Plus: An editor calls Speaker John Boehner racist for asking President Obama to postpone his address to Congress for one night. Charles Blow, Newt Gingrich, Racism, Media Bias, Arthur Brisbane, Andrew Rosenthal http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120127090046.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Timeswatch_thumb_for_NB.jpg 20120126024846 Clay Waters Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:48:00 -0400 Who cares what an unelected dictator thinks of the Republican primary field? The New York Times apparently does: "'The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,' [Fidel Castro] wrote in an opinion piece in state-owned news media." Michael Shear, Trip Gabriel, Fidel Castro, Campaign 2012, Florida, Communism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120126024846.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Castro.jpg 20120126020236 Clay Waters Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:02:00 -0400 Reporter Michael Schmidt: "Iraqis were outraged Tuesday to learn that the Marine considered the ringleader of a 2005 massacre that left 24 of their countrymen dead in 2005 was sentenced on Tuesday to a reduction in rank but avoided any jail time after pleading guilty the day before to a reduced charge." Schmidt quoted three outraged Iraqis, two of whom were relatives of victims, while ignoring the Marines' side completely. Haditha Massacre, Verdict, Iraq, Bias by Omission, Michael Schdmit, Paul von Zielbauer, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120126020236.aspx 20120126011129 Clay Waters Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:11:00 -0400 Eric Pfanner exudes leftist sensibilities in his report from the World Economic Forum in Davos: "...a new wave of anger was welling up, one that, over the last year, would shake up old assumptions about the ultrarich, the middle class and the growing gulf that separates them." Eric Pfanner, Occupy Wall Street, Davos, Income Inequality, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120126011129.aspx 20120125040402 Clay Waters Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:03:00 -0400 Trip Gabriel likens Tea Party conservatives to angry bulls: "As he moved to consolidate the conservative base behind him, Newt Gingrich waved the red cape of a former Florida governor who quit the Republican Party and lost to the Tea Party favorite Marco Rubio - a line that got a big reaction from crowds who have not forgotten that act of moderate apostasy." Trip Gabriel, Newt Gingrich, Campaign 2012, Florida, Charlie Crist, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120125040402.aspx 20120125035038 Clay Waters Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:50:00 -0400 More tax-hike propaganda in Wednesday's lead slot, conveniently matching President Obama's tax-the-rich campaign strategy. The Times took an obsessively detailed look at Mitt Romney's recently released tax returns while suggesting the findings bolstered Obama's argument that the rich are undertaxed, while ignoring the reality that "Romney pays at a much higher rate than most Americans." Mitt Romney, Taxes, David Kocieniewski, Nicholas Confessore, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120125035038.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/romneytax190.jpg 20120125022035 Clay Waters Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:20:00 -0400 Helene Cooper claimed Republicans in Congress were seeing their "poll numbers diving," but failed to note Obama's poll numbers are also underwater, and took Obama's lead in suggesting his message that the rich are undertaxed was vindicated by Mitt Romney's tax returns. State of the Union 2012, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Helene Cooper, Taxes, Warren Buffett http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120125022035.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Obama_SOTU.jpg 20120124125333 Clay Waters Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:53:00 -0400 From the front page to the education section to reality show reviews, the Times is still obsessed with Occupy Wall Street and the 99% "aspiring idealists" bravely fighting "the political and financial masters of the universe." Cara Buckley, Occupy Wall Street, Education, Hospitals, Tea Party, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120124125333.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Occupy_London.jpg 20120124121752 Clay Waters Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:17:00 -0400 Two controversial Democrats, one arrested for security leaks, another under investigation for alleged shady financial dealings under his governorship. Neither were identified as Democrats by the Times. John Kerry, Charlie Savage, Dan Frosch, Party Identification, Bias by Omission, Bill Richardson, Democrats http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120124121752.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Timeswatch_thumb_for_NB.jpg 20120124101149 Clay Waters Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:11:00 -0400 For the fifth year in a row, the Times had no story about the annual March for Life in Washington against abortion in which thousands of pro-life activists participate every January on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Yet the Times datebook for Monday found room to mention the National Hockey League champions' visit to the White House. March for Life, Abortion, Bias By Omission, Double Standards, Pro-Life March, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120124101149.aspx 20120123024121 Clay Waters Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:41:00 -0400 The paper's public editor, Arthur Brisbane, reveals the "current [fact-checking] movement has its roots in the late 1980s, a response to aggressive advertising like the Willie Horton ads aimed at Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee in 1988, according to Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact." Arthur Brisbane, Fact Checking, Double Standards, Willie Horton http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120123024121.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Arthur_Brisbane_NEW.jpg 20120123014246 Clay Waters Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:42:00 -0400 How dare Republicans think the media is liberal: "[Newt's] the street fighter with a history of poisonous politics who not only goes there but dwells there. He makes his nest among the thorns of open animus and coded language. Take the issue of media bias for instance: according to a September Pew Research Center poll, more than three-quarters of Republicans said that news organizations are politically biased. That was appreciably higher than both independents and Democrats." Charles Blow, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120123014246.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Charles_Blow.jpg 20120120041405 Clay Waters Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:13:00 -0400 It's no shock former Times reporter Neil Lewis would disagree with pro-Israel conservatives who criticize the Times for an anti-Israeli slant. What's odd is how weak his counter-evidence is. Lewis not only failed to showed how “American Jewry” was wrong, he hardly tries, and sometimes he seems to agree with the paper's critics. Israel, Neil Lewis, Palestinians, Ethan Bronner, Deborah Sontag, Yassir Arafat, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120120041405.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Neil_Lewis.jpg 20120120020026 Clay Waters Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:00:00 -0400 How nice: "People like Chip Townsend, an engineer who moved his family to Greenville from Boulder, Colo., in 2006, discovered that the state is not an insular, ultraconservative bosom of the Confederacy." Campaign 2012, Kim Severson, South Carolina, Labeling Bias, Gay Marriage http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120120020026.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Kim_Severson.jpg 20120119015149 Clay Waters Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:51:00 -0400 Wealthy hedge fund consultant (and liberal Democrat) John Edwards didn't get nearly this kind of scrutiny of his personal finances during the 2008 Democratic primary. Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney, Wealth, Double Standards, Campaign 2008, Bain Capital, Fortress Investment Group,John Edwards, John Kerry, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120119015149.aspx 20120119121507 Clay Waters Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:15:00 -0400 "[Romney's] tax proposals...would largely cut taxes for the rich while driving down tax collections and widening the nation's deficit....Experts from across the spectrum acknowledge that the Republican tax proposals would benefit the wealthiest the most. Polls have repeatedly shown that a majority of Americans favor raising taxes on households earning more than $1 million a year to reduce the deficit." David Kocieniewski, Michael Cooper, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, Taxes, Deficit, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120119121507.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Kocieniewski.jpg 20120118113721 Clay Waters Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:37:00 -0400 Jim Rutenberg from Charleston: "But like the historic slave plantations that draw tourists on the outskirts of town, the legacy of that past has not been totally wiped from the politics of today. And if the general election campaign by Republicans against President Obama, the nation's first black president, goes on to include a fraught, multilayered discussion about minorities and entitlements, work ethics and what it means to be American, then it will have gotten under way in earnest here this week." A lead editorial rants that "Mr. Gingrich has made racial resentment an integral part of his platform." Jim Rutenberg, Campaign 2012, Newt Gingrich, South Carolina, Racism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120118113721.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jim_Rutenberg.jpg 20120118111558 Clay Waters Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:09:00 -0400 David Kocieniewski takes advantage of the controversy over Mitt Romney's 15% tax rate to again push for higher rates on the rich. David Kocieniewski, Warren Buffett, Taxes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120118111558.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Kocieniewski.jpg 20120118104150 Clay Waters Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:41:00 -0400 By paragraph three the Times had characterized the candidate's remarks as "likely to cement Mr. Romney's place as an unwilling emblem of the intensifying national debate over taxation and income inequality." The Washington Post provided context the Times left out: "Even at 15 percent, however, Romney would pay more than most Americans." Nicholas Confessore, David Kocieniewski, Ashley Parker, Mitt Romney, Tax Rates, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120118104150.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Timeswatch_thumb_for_NB.jpg 20120117033232 Clay Waters Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:32:00 -0400 Also: Remember the "early promise" of moderate Jon Huntsman Jr.'s presidential campaign? Neither do most Republicans. Katharine Seelye, Labeling Bias, Campaign 2012, South Carolina, Double Standards, Campaign 2008 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120117033232.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Katharine_Seelye.jpg 20120117122754 Clay Waters Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:27:00 -0400 Pushing gay rights in the obituaries: "Danny Evins, who created Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, a restaurant heavy on grits and nostalgia, expanded it into a $2 billion chain and then fought a losing battle to discriminate against gay employees, died on Saturday in Lebanon, Tenn." Douglas Martin, Cracker Barrel, Danny Evins, Gay Rights, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120117122754.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/cracker_barrel.jpg 20120117114937 Clay Waters Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:49:00 -0400 Frank Bruni: "But he walks a tightrope, wanting to broadcast his success without seeming out of touch. A wealthy candidate's aides guard against tone-deaf admissions of privilege while opponents itch to pounce, as the first President Bush's did in 1992, when he seemed unfamiliar with a grocery store's electronic price scanner." But this appears to be a myth, one started by the Times' own Andrew Rosenthal back in 1992. Frank Bruni, Campaign 2012, George H.W. Bush, Gaffes, Campaign 1992, Mitt Romney http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120117114937.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Bruni.jpg 20120116024406 Clay Waters Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:43:00 -0400 Hypocritical Times columnist Harvey Araton deigns to give a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback advice on both religious practice and athletic leadership, mocks him: "...the scene was a hard-to-miss public spectacle, like so much of the Tebowing phenomenon, and it lasted considerably longer than any Denver drive....he thanked his teammates for their support and effort immediately after praising God. But one was left to surmise that he, the Broncos' purported leader, should have been with them late Saturday night instead of in the corridor tending to his personal business, no matter how giving it was." Tim Tebow, Zachary McLeod, Harvey Araton, Double Standards, Christianity http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120116024406.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Tim_Tebow.jpg 20120116021316 Clay Waters Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:13:00 -0400 Contributor Lee Siegel: "Mitt Romney is the whitest white man to run for president in recent memory....He knows that he offers to these people the white solution to the problem of a black president." Lee Siegel, Andrew Rosenthal, Sunday Review, Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney, Racism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120116021316.aspx 20120116093754 Clay Waters Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:37:00 -0400 Writing on the hostility to Koch Industries that dominates the paper's opinion and critical writing, Public Editor Arthur Brisbane admitted he "would be happier if The Times had a more diverse mix" of conservative writers, "and there can be little doubt that the Times ownership and editorial page ascribe to a liberal perspective." Brisbane admitted that many New York liberals read the paper "because it mirrors their views." Arthur Brisbane, Koch Industries, Liberal Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120116093754.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Arthur_Brisbane.jpg 20120113070054 Clay Waters Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0400 Public Editor Arthur Brisbane made waves by asking “Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?” But the paper already is, at least against Republicans, replete with ardent defenses of liberal policy against “misleading exaggeration” by the GOP while lacking any such vigilance when it comes to Democratic statements. Arthur Brisbane, Fact Checking, Double Standards, CBO, Obama-Care, Social Security http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120113070054.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Arthur_Brisbane.jpg 20120112034001 Clay Waters Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:39:00 -0400 The Times can hope: "About two-thirds of Americans now believe there are 'strong conflicts' between rich and poor in the United States, a survey by the Pew Research Center found, a sign that the message of income inequality brandished by the Occupy Wall Street movement and pressed by Democrats may be seeping into the national consciousness." Sabrina Tavernise, Occupy Wall Street, Pew Research Center http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120112034001.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/tavernise.jpg 20120112032457 Clay Waters Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:24:00 -0400 Jodi Kantor, talking on Facebook about her new biography of the Obamas, reacts to a question on how Fox News and the Drudge Report were using her book "as a racial attack against the Obamas": "Back in 2007, I broke the initial news of tension between Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and then I wrote this story, which I labored and labored over to make fair: You can imagine the way my reporting was portrayed in other outlets." Jodi Kantor, Books, Michelle Obama, Jeremiah Wright http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120112032457.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jodi_Kantor.jpg 20120111044839 Clay Waters Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:48:00 -0400 Welcome to South Carolina, "a place famous for surfacing the dark undercurrents of American politics," says campaign reporter Jim Rutenberg. But is there any evidence for his claims of a racially charged anti-McCain smear during the 2000 presidential primary there? And is Newt Gingrich really on his "third religion"? Jim Rutenberg, Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Campaign 2000, South Carolina, Religion, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120111044839.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jim_Rutenberg.jpg 20120111012152 Clay Waters Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:21:00 -0400 Diversity, Times style: "Bipolar America," the cover feature for the Book Review, compiles reviews of three new books on Tea Party-related politics, one reviewed by veteran liberal journalist Michael Kinsley, two others judged by Timothy Noah, veteran liberal journalist for The New Republic. Michael Kinsley, Timothy Noah, Book Review, Tea Party, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120111012152.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/bipolar.jpg 20120111121450 Clay Waters Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:14:00 -0400 From the Times Sunday Magazine cover story profile of Comedy Central political parodist Stephen Colbert: "Though Colbert doesn't much resemble [Fox host Bill] O'Reilly physically, the persona has mastered some of O'Reilly's pen-wielding, hand-stabbing gestures, and his credentials as a right-wing blowhard are beyond doubt." Stephen Colbert, Charles McGrath, Bill O'Reilly, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120111121450.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Colbert_Cover.jpg 20120110023350 Clay Waters Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:33:00 -0400 Mark Leibovich finds a late paragon of moral virtue, Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, to condemn comments the "pgymy" "bully" Rick Santorum made as a senator. Mark Leibovich, Rick Santorum, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120110023350.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Leibovich.jpg 20120110020128 Clay Waters Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:01:00 -0400 In New Hampshire, Times reporters Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg eagerly forward crude anti-business stereotypes of Mitt Romney as a "job-killing corporate villain" and "greedy titan." Jeff Zeleny, Jim Rutenberg, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120110020128.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Zeleny.jpg 20120110013315 Clay Waters Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:33:00 -0400 Peter Singer: "The wrongness of killing a dog is nothing like the wrongness of killing a normal non-infant human being." Notice the exceptions Singer carves out. Ariel Kaminer, Peter Singer, Euthanasia, Animal Rights http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120110013315.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ariel_Kaminer.jpg 20120109040132 Clay Waters Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:01:00 -0400 Reporter Elizabeth Jensen's fulsome tribute to lefty public TV sage Bill Moyers: "...much will carry over from the old program, including Mr. Moyers's thoughtful interviews with thinkers who wouldn't otherwise get much television face time and a focus on the country's most pressing political and economic questions....a longtime target of some conservatives." Bill Moyers, Elizabeth Jensen, PBS, Bias by Omission, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120109040132.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Moyers.jpg 20120109031637 Clay Waters Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:16:00 -0400 Conservative label overload: "Many religious conservatives question Mr. Romney's bona fides on what to them are non-negotiable issues, like opposing abortion and same-sex marriage. Pointing to the large conservative electoral gains in 2010 and Mr. Obama's weakened position, they see a rare opportunity this year to put a 'true conservative' in the White House, and many say they will be disappointed if Mr. Romney wins the nomination." Campaign 2012, Labeling Bias, Erik Eckholm, Christians, Double Standards, Campaign 2008 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120109031637.aspx 20120109024931 Clay Waters Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:49:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes claims Mitt Romney was false to say repealing the Obama-care would save money, citing "nonpartisan fact checkers and analyses like those of the Congressional Budget Office." Has she heard of Medicare, or actually counted up the accounting gimmicks the CBO had to employ to get to its findings? Jackie Calmes, Obama-Care, Fact Check, Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney, CBO, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120109024931.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20120106041149 Clay Waters Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:11:00 -0400 Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal, prodded by criticism from The O'Reilly Factor, posted an update to his post offensively accusing House Speaker John Boehner of racism for asking Obama to delay an address to Congress. Rosenthal brought up his old favorite, the Willie Horton ad, and made a fresh and dubious claim of racism against Rick Santorum. Andrew Rosenthal, Racism, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Rick Santorum http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120106041149.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Andrew_Rosenthal.jpg 20120106125545 Clay Waters Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:55:00 -0400 Shaila Dewan sees a "head of steam" for Obama in the latest 8.5% unemployment figure, enough "to cheer President Obama as he enters an election year." Does this mean Dewan will no longer ask, as she did in March 2009: "Weren't we working too much, anyway?" Shaila Dewan, Unemployment, Economy, Campaign 2012, Barack Obama, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120106125545.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Shaila_Dewan.jpg 20120106105647 Clay Waters Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:56:00 -0400 Helene Cooper yawns over Obama's dubious and possibly unconstitutional "recess" appointments while suggesting the administration has the Republicans just where they want them as Campaign 2012 heats up: "[Romney's] statement was just what the White House wanted." Helene Cooper, Congress, Republicans, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120106105647.aspx 20120106103325 Clay Waters Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:33:00 -0400 Reporter Nicholas Kulish forwards Al Gore's discredited global warming threats to polar bears: "Knut arrived on the scene at a moment when global warming was a growing topic, born the same year that the climate-change film 'An Inconvenient Truth,' starring Al Gore, was released. The bear's personal peril seemed to reflect that of his species." Nicholas Kulish, Knut, Al Gore, Polar Bears, Environment http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120106103325.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/polar_bear.jpg 20120105024424 Clay Waters Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:44:00 -0400 Talk about the 1% Percent! Even as the Times is freezing pensions for foreign citizen employees in overseas bureaus, it granted a $15 million golden parachute to former chief executive Janet Robinson after she suddenly departed the NYT Co. at the end of 2011. Hypocrisy, Unions, Janet Robinson, Kyle Smith, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120105024424.aspx 20120105010213 Clay Waters Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:02:00 -0400 The Times used the word "conservative" 12 times in a campaign story from New Hampshire, but in 2008 reporter Michael Powell called Michael Dukakis a "pragmatist" and ultra-liberal politicians John Edwards, Ted Kennedy, and Jesse Jackson "populists." Jim Rutenberg, Jeff Zeleny, Campaign 2012, Labeling Bias, New Hampshire, Iowa, Double Standards, Campaign 2008 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120105010213.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jim_Rutenberg.jpg 20120105115730 Clay Waters Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:57:00 -0400 Jason DeParle: "...the evidence suggests that America is not only less equal, but also less mobile....The United States maintains a thinner safety net than other rich countries, leaving more children vulnerable to debilitating hardships." DeParle also blamed the lack of unions in the United States and the "sheer magnitude of the gaps between the rich and the rest" here. Jason DeParle, Income Mobility, Welfare Reform, Poverty, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120105115730.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jason_DeParle.jpg 20120104030053 Clay Waters Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:00:00 -0400 Jan Hoffman: "The messages, rendered in teenspeak, can be funny and blunt: for Real Talk, a technology-driven H.I.V. prevention program run by the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York, teenagers made a YouTube video, shouting a refrain from a rap song, 'Sport Dat Raincoat,' during which a girl carrying an umbrella is pelted with condoms." Jan Hoffman, Planned Parenthood, Sex Education, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120104030053.aspx 20120104021951 Clay Waters Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:19:00 -0400 A new low for Andrew Rosenthal: "Talking about race in American politics is uncomfortable and awkward. But it has to be said: There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks leveled against President Obama for the last three years, and in this dawning presidential campaign. You can detect this undertone in the level of disrespect for this president that would be unthinkable were he not an African-American. Some earlier examples include: Rep. Joe Wilson shouting 'you lie' at one of Mr. Obama's first appearances before Congress, and House Speaker John Boehner rejecting Mr. Obama's request to speak to a joint session of Congress – the first such denial in the history of our republic." Andrew Rosenthal, Racism, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120104021951.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Andrew_Rosenthal.jpg 20120104115243 Clay Waters Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:52:00 -0400 Double standards on leaks of sensitive information at the Times. The paper eagerly splashed diplomatic secrets stolen by Wikileaks on the front page, but claimed that releasing the "Climate-gate" emails was just an attempt "to undercut scientists, who were later vindicated." Leslie Kaufman, Global Warming, Climate-Gate, Wikileaks, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120104115243.aspx 20120103042401 Clay Waters Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:23:00 -0400 Yet another Times reporter, Mark Landler, celebrates Obama's "oratorical gifts," but in a story on how Obama's surrogates are the ones making "striking" speeches in support of gay rights, which Landler framed as a politically winning issue for the president. Mark Landler, Gay Marriage, Campaign 2012, Barack Obama, Oratory, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120103042401.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mark_Landler.JPG 20120103034735 Clay Waters Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:00 -0400 In a story about Mitt Romney, reporter Ashley Parker sounds wistful over Obama's 2008 Iowa campaign oratory: "But Mr. Romney is also using the patriotic songs to try to elevate his own political speeches - making them, in a way, more like Mr. Obama's eloquent and inspiring rhetoric in the state four years ago. (Indeed, Mr. Obama became so famous for the soaring remarks he wrote himself that his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, borrowing a line from former Gov. Mario Cuomo, remarked that you campaign in poetry, but govern in prose.)" Ashley Parker, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, Barack Obama, Iowa Caucuses, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120103034735.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ashley_Parker.JPG 20120103033339 Clay Waters Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:33:00 -0400 A sportswriter goes political: "[LeBron] James sounded callous - a 1 percenter reminding the 99 percent that he was impervious to their taunts." Howard Beck, LeBron James, 99 Percent, Sports http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2012/20120103033339.aspx 20111230123310 Clay Waters Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:33:00 -0400 Welcome to the 2011 edition of the worst quotes from the New York Times this year, in three categories: "Occupy Wall Street's 'Athenian Democracy' vs. Tea Party 'Terrorists'"; "Blaming Conservatism, not the Shooter, for the Rampage in Arizona"; and "Just Plain Bizarre." Ira Stoll, the editor of newstransparency.com and futureofcapitalism.com, offers his take on the "best" quotes from the New York Times for the 2011 edition. Ira Stoll, Joe Nocera, Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111230123310.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TWforClaysBlogs-180x120.JPG 20111230115903 Clay Waters Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:58:00 -0400 Newt Gingrich is "among the more divisive political figures of recent decade" and always threatens to become "Nasty Newt." Yet former vice president Al Gore was a "compelling" "pop culture icon." Mark Leibovich, Newt Gingrich, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111230115903.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Leibovich.jpg 20111228035049 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:50:00 -0400 "When Mitt Romney introduces himself to voters, he has a peculiar habit of guessing their age or nationality, often incorrectly." More of Romney as robot: The Times feels the need to spell out Mitt Romney's laughter. Ashley Parker, Michael Barbaro, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111228035049.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ashley_Parker.JPG 20111228031005 Tim Graham Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:09:00 -0400 Friedman told David Gregory on Meet the Press: "And I think Newt's rise is speaking to us. And what it says to me is, is that I think there's a lot of Republicans who are starved for a candidate for their party who would be able to debate Obama head-to-head, they think is as smart and mellifluous as the president." Thomas Friedman, Meet the Press, David Gregory, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111228031005.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_2011-12-25-MTP.jpg 20111228030118 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:01:00 -0400 Reporter Jeremy Peters is seeing things: "The 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign used billboards with faint images of crosses. And at the Republican National Convention that year, the lecterns on stage were made of two-tone wood that appeared designed to resemble crosses. The Bush campaign insisted it was a coincidence. Where some people see a rusty water stain, after all, others see the Virgin Mary." Jeremy Peters, Christianity, Dog-Whistle, Religion, Gaffes, Subliminal Messages http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111228030118.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/RNC_podium.jpg 20111227033309 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:33:00 -0400 An environmental scientist eviscerates Justin Gillis's front-page article on extreme weather events and global warming as "perhaps the worst piece of reporting I've ever seen in the Times on climate change." Justin Gillis, Roger Pielke Jr., Global Warming, Climate Change http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111227033309.aspx 20111227020852 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:08:00 -0400 Merry Christmas? The Times' Christmas editorial wishes for "an end to the conditions that cause war: gross inequality, intolerance, the endless, destructive struggle over natural resources..." Editorial, Christmas, Liberal Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111227020852.aspx 20111227015213 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:52:00 -0400 David Barstow won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2008 investigation alleging the Pentagon breached ethics in its briefings of TV and radio military analysts. But a Pentagon report showing no wrongdoing by the program was buried on Page A20 on Christmas Day, over three weeks after being initially reported by the Washington Times. David Barstow, Pentagon, Bias by Omission, Washington Times, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111227015213.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Barstow.jpg 20111221040240 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:02:00 -0400 On Charlie Rose, a roundtable including Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson and columnist Tom Friedman lamented President Obama's inability to convince Americans of his liberal agenda. Abramson faulted only Obama's “communications failures,” not the big-government policies themselves, while Friedman initially seemed to fret that Obama had not successfully used Times liberals like himself to push his agenda: "He has never leveraged us. He never - us, I mean the American people." Thomas Friedman, Jill Abramson, Charlie Rose, David Leonhardt, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Media Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111221040240.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_Rose_12_16_11 - Copy.jpg 20111221121450 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:14:00 -0400 The advantages of Soviet Communism: "Dobrokhotov said that many aspects of the past - a stronger education system, free housing - now seemed appealing to young Russians." David Herszenhorn, Soviet Union, Communism, Russia http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111221121450.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn2new.jpg 20111221115425 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:54:00 -0400 A hostile Steinhauer dramatizes the isolation of the conservative flank of the Republican Party: "After defiantly rejecting a Senate compromise to extend a payroll tax break and jobless pay, Speaker John A. Boehner stood before the television cameras on Tuesday enveloped by scores of House Republicans. Even as a group, they seemed very much alone....By turning down a bill that was overwhelmingly supported by both parties in the Senate as well as the White House, the conservative House majority that has spent the year inciting combative legislative showdowns is now staring over the brink...." Jennifer Steinhauer, John Boehner, Congress, Payroll Tax Cut http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111221115425.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20111220021103 Tim Graham Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:10:00 -0400 Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is still mad at The New York Times for underlining her husband John Coale's assistance to Herman Cain. On her GretaWire blog, she highlighted Jake Tapper's news item on MSNBC stars and other liberal media folks going to coffee with Obama. Greta Van Susteren, Jeremy Peters, Double Standards, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111220021103.aspx 20111220010920 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:09:00 -0400 Taking on the "noxious" 1 percenters in the arts pages: "True, art-worldlings did at least adopt one thing from the Occupy Wall Street movement: a new identifying label for the source of particularly noxious vibes emanating from art fairs, V.I.P. galas and museum boardrooms: namely the 1 percent." Holland Cotter, Occupy Wall Street, Arts http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111220010920.aspx 20111220124807 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:48:00 -0400 This time reporter Mark Landler furthers the Times myth that President George W. Bush led America into a "unilateral invasion" of Iraq. Mark Landler, Gaffes, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Unilateral, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111220124807.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mark_Landler.JPG 20111220112227 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:06:00 -0400 Can we declare a moratorium? December 17, 2011 web headline: "Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Enigmatic Strongman.” A July 10, 1994 headline: "Kim Il Sung, Enigmatic 'Great Leader' of North Korea for 5 Decades, Dies at 82." Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, Obituary, Labeling Bias, Enigmatic, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111220112227.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Kim_Jong_Il.jpg 20111219042411 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:24:00 -0400 Charlie Savage continues to downplay the "Fast and Furious" gunwalking scandal around Attorney General Eric Holder, while Times headlines showcase Holder standing standing brave and firm against a torrent of politically motivated Republican criticism: “A Lightning Rod Undeterred by G.O.P. Thunder...Under Partisan Fire, Holder Soldiers On.” , TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111219042411.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Charles_Savage.jpg 20111219032514 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:25:00 -0400 Political editor Richard Stevenson, December 2011: "Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey and one of a dwindling band of moderate Republicans..." Reporter Adam Clymer, December 1996: "But the dwindling band of Republican moderates gives [Sen. Trent Lott] high marks for attentiveness." Richard Stevenson, Gaffes, Dwindling Moderates, Republicans, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111219032514.aspx 20111219031313 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:13:00 -0400 For offensively exploiting tragedy for political gain after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and upon the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was named a big “winner” in Media Research Center's 2011 Best of Notable Quotables. Paul Krugman, Notable Quotables 2011, World Trade Center, Gabrielle Giffords, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111219031313.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman240.jpg 20111215020156 Clay Waters Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:01:00 -0400 Newly discovered documents let the Times revisit, and psychoanalyze, what it has long touted as a “massacre” of innocent civilians: "Haditha became a defining moment of the war, helping cement an enduring Iraqi distrust of the United States and a resentment that not one Marine has been convicted....In their own words, the report documents the dehumanizing nature of this war...Troops, traumatized by the rising violence and feeling constantly under siege, grew increasingly twitchy, killing more and more civilians in accidental encounters. Others became so desensitized and inured to the killing that they fired on Iraqi civilians deliberately while their fellow soldiers snapped pictures, and were court-martialed." Michael Schmidt, Iraq War, Haditha, Marines, Massacre http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111215020156.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Haditha.jpg 20111215120202 Clay Waters Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:01:00 -0400 Trip Gabriel: "And just as during the cold war, Mr. Gingrich frames the challenges in stark terms that can have an apocalyptic ring, as when he described Palestinians as an 'invented' people whose leadership seeks the destruction of Israel. The fierceness of Mr. Gingrich's language..." Trip Gabriel, Newt Gingrich, Iran, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111215120202.aspx 20111214015615 Clay Waters Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:56:00 -0400 Come again? "I sure hope that Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby." Thomas Friedman, Israel Lobby, Benjamin Netanyahu, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111214015615.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_Rose_11_09_10.JPG 20111214011208 Clay Waters Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:12:00 -0400 Conservative, you say? Susan Saulny reports from Des Moines: "Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader, a conservative advocacy group popular with evangelical Christians here, has been saying supportive things recently about Newt Gingrich, suggesting that social conservatives are open to looking past his extramarital affairs and two divorces as they make a choice in the Republican presidential race." Susan Saulny, Campaign 2012, Labeling Bias, Christians, Iowa, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111214011208.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Susan_Saulny.jpg 20111214112332 Clay Waters Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:23:00 -0400 Ashley Parker, sounding more like a columnist than a campaign trail reporter: "Mitt Romney - he of the inscrutable, overly polished and occasionally robotic mien - is striving mightily to humanize himself just three weeks before the first round of voting begins." Ashley Parker, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111214112332.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ashley_Parker.JPG 20111213030703 Clay Waters Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:07:00 -0400 Former Times executive editor praises (?) Gingrich: "There are plenty of reasons the thought of President Newt Gingrich makes me shudder. But on this hard, defining American issue, he's shown a combination of brains, heart and guts that puts the rest of his party to shame." Bill Keller, Newt Gingrich, Campaign 2012, Illegal Immigration, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111213030703.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20111213125624 Clay Waters Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:56:00 -0400 Economics reporter Landon Thomas Jr. turns in his screenplay: "It would be Europe's worst nightmare: after weeks of rumors, the Greek prime minister announces late on a Saturday night that the country will abandon the euro currency and return to the drachma....lines of angry Greeks form at the shuttered doors of the country's banks, trying to get at their frozen deposits....As the country descends into chaos, the military seizes control of the government." Landon Thomas Jr., Euro, Greece, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111213125624.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/190-euro.jpg 20111212031530 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:15:00 -0400 Despite the wrecked economies of Europe, there's little euro-skepticism among Times reporters: "The big loser in Brussels was Britain...[British PM David] Cameron was perceived as having made a poor gamble in opposing the push by Mrs. Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, embittering relations and possibly damaging his standing at home." David Cameron, European Union, Sarah Lyall, Julia Werdigier, Steven Erlanger, Stephen Castle, Landon Thomas Jr., Britain, Euro, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111212031530.aspx 20111212023508 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:35:00 -0400 Newt Gingrich's criticism of the Israel-Palestinian "peace process" "has the potential to be a distraction to his surging campaign." But isn't it popular with conservatives and conservative primary voters? Trip Gabriel, Newt Gingrich, Israel, Palestinians, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111212023508.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ging.jpg 20111212020724 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:07:00 -0400 The Times devotes its front page to nullifying Newt Gingrich's “far-fetched” alarm over a nuclear threat - yet the Times never questions the most apocalyptic doomsday scenarios put forth by left-wing environmental activists every week. Newt Gingrich, William Broad, Electromagnetic Pulse, Double Standards, Elisabeth Rosenthal, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111212020724.aspx 20111209120239 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:02:00 -0400 Plus: London rioters spurred by “altars to consumption and greed," and lefty "99 percent" slogan compared to "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death." Frank Bruni, Occupy Wall Street, Campaign 2012, Bill Keller, Brian Stelter, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111209120239.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Timeswatch_thumb_for_NB.jpg 20111209113402 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:33:00 -0400 Labeling slant in a story on Obama blocking sale of the morning-after pill to girls under 17: "...with conservative and anti-abortion groups opposed and public health and women's rights groups in favor." Morning-After Pill, Labeling Bias, Jackie Calmes, Gardiner Harris, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111209113402.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20111208033352 Clay Waters Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:33:00 -0400 No quote marks? Richard Oppel Jr.: "Mr. Romney's remarks served as something of a rebuttal to a speech that Mr. Obama gave on Tuesday in Kansas, in which the president warned that trickle-down economic policy did not work." Richard Oppel Jr., Trickle-Down Economics, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111208033352.aspx 20111208020928 Clay Waters Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:09:00 -0400 Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg: "The jabs at Mr. Gingrich are one part gleeful mischief-making and one part serious due diligence....Their unrelenting attacks on Mr. Romney, which culminated in a humorous Web video of his evolution on a variety of issues, were viewed by many Republicans as a devastating success." A photo caption: "Democrats say that Mr. Gingrich's rocky tenure in the House should provide a particularly juicy target.” Jeff Zeleny, Jim Rutenberg, Newt Gingrich, Mott Romney, Adam Nagourney, Elisabeth Bumiller, Campaign 2012, Republicans, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111208020928.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/newt-gingrich.jpg 20111207024341 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:43:00 -0400 Stephanie Strom again gushed over billionaire leftist George Soros without giving him an ideological label, and ignoring or glancing over past controversies financial and political: "That ability to knit together disparate groups will come in handy at Open Society, where Mr. Soros may elect to support struggling scientists in Russia, as he did after the Soviet Union collapsed, using money he made shorting the British pound. Or he may choose to provide loan guarantees to spur the development of low-income housing in South Africa and money to endow the Central European University, which he founded." George Soros, Stephanie Strom, Open Society http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111207024341.aspx 20111207010546 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:05:00 -0400 Times reporters enthuse over yet another catchy left-wing idea: "They call it the Robin Hood tax - a tiny levy on trades in the financial markets that would take money from the banks and give it to the world's poor. And like the mythical hero of Sherwood Forest, it is beginning to capture the public's imagination." Steven Greenhouse, Graham Bowley, Robin Hood Tax, Occupy Wall Street http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111207010546.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Robin_Hood.jpg 20111207124001 Tim Graham Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:39:00 -0400 From inside the NPR tank, Elizabeth Jensen reported on new National Public Radio chief executive Gary Knell without devoting one word to conservative NPR critics in a piece loaded with public-broadcasting officialdom. Gary Knell, Elizabeth Jensen, National Public Radio, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111207124001.aspx 20111206032202 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:21:00 -0400 The left-wing slogan from Occupy Wall Street has settled into the collective consciousness of the New York Times, infecting stories from food to travel to Coco Chanel. Brian Stelter, Occupy Wall Street, Coco Chanel, Julia Moskin, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111206032202.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Oakland_Burning.jpg 20111206020332 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:04:00 -0400 No room for optimism for reporter Liz Alderman in Ireland: "But the effects of austerity have pummeled Ireland's fragile economy, leaving scars that are likely to take years to heal. Nearly 40,000 Irish have fled the country this year alone in search of a brighter future elsewhere; the trend is expected to continue....Moreover, the recovery looks to be short-lived...." Liz Alderman, Ireland, Economy, Austerity, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111206020332.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Liz_Alderman.jpg 20111205020145 Clay Waters Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:01:00 -0400 White House reporter turned columnist Frank Bruni gives Newt the most back-handed of all possible praise: "The candidates who surged before [Gingrich] are to varying degrees yahoos." Frank Bruni, Campaign 2012, Newt Gingrich, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111205020145.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Bruni.jpg 20111205114150 Clay Waters Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:41:00 -0400 Catherine Rampell on the latest underwhelming employment figures: "That looks like good news for President Obama as he heads into the 2012 presidential election - especially since just a few months ago the picture looked bleak." The Washington Post was not nearly as optimistic. Catherine Rampell, Economy, Unemployment, Campaign 2012, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111205114150.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Catherine_Rampell.jpg 20111205111711 Clay Waters Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:17:00 -0400 Sam Roberts on Republican candidates mocking Occupy Wall Street: “Is that a potentially dangerous tactic, since even most Republican voters are more likely to be among the 99 percent than the one percent?” Sam Roberts, Occupy Wall Street, Campaign 2012, Republicans, Trip Gabriel, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111205111711.aspx 20111202024751 Clay Waters Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:46:00 -0400 Los Angeles-based Nagourney ignores the already-steep taxes Californians pay, promotes even more: "Yet the sheer abundance of undisguised tax-increase proposals is the latest evidence that spending cuts in California...may be producing a reconsideration among voters about taxes and the value of government. Democratic leaders said the tax campaign marks the start of the backlash that many of them, starting with Mr. Brown, had predicted would set in as budget cuts turned into the reality of closed parks, shortened school years, a reduced number of police officers on the streets and, in the case of California, the early release of felons from overcrowded jails and prisons." Adam Nagourney, California, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111202024751.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20111202125002 Clay Waters Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:48:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes once again, sees a triumphant Democratic Party and a vulnerable GOP: "Democrats have concluded from the payroll tax debate that Republicans are vulnerable over their opposition to any new taxes on the wealthy in a way they were not when Democrats proposed such taxes for deficit reduction....Republican leaders' struggle this week to find a strategy that could unite their party reflected the political bind it is in." Jackie Calmes, Payroll Tax Cut, Campaign 2012, Democrats, Congress, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111202125002.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20111202120927 Clay Waters Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:08:00 -0400 Helene Cooper spreads hope for Obama in Arizona in 2012 thanks to the GOP's "hard-line stance" on immigration: "But the state's crackdown on illegal immigration has coincided with a boom in its Hispanic population, now nearly a third of the state's residents. That has created what Obama strategists and some residents see as a surprising opportunity to compete in a Republican state that was off the map for Mr. Obama in 2008....The sense has been reinforced by the hard-line stance that most of the Republican presidential field has taken on immigration ..." Helene Cooper, Arizona, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111202120927.aspx 20111201025731 Clay Waters Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:56:00 -0400 Gail Collins has now mentioned Mitt Romney's dog strapped to a crate on a car roof 28 times in columns. She also referred to Herman Cain and other GOP candidates as "nutjobs," while her "conservative" foil David Brooks nodded along. Gail Collins, Crate-gate, Mitt Romney, Dog, Campaign 2012, Herman Cain, David Brooks http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111201025731.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.JPG 20111201023539 Clay Waters Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:34:00 -0400 Media reporter Brian Stelter embraces the OWS and its ubiquitous slogan, making audacious historical comparisons: "Slogans have emerged from American protest movements, successful and otherwise, throughout history. The American Revolution furnished the world with 'Give me liberty or give me death' and the still-popular 'No taxation without representation.'....The civil rights movement embraced the song 'We Shall Overcome' as a slogan." Brian Stelter, Occupy Wall Street, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111201023539.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Brian_Stelter_2011.JPG 20111130024027 Clay Waters Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:40:00 -0400 More hypocrisy at the Times, as the paper attacks wealthy heir Ronald Lauder for using tax avoidance strategies like trust funds, limited liability companies, and charitable giving, while the Sulzberger family that owns the NYT Co. does the exact same thing. Ira Stoll, Hypocrisy, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Ronald Lauder, Tax Shelters http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111130024027.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Sulzberger.jpg 20111130011514 Clay Waters Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:15:00 -0400 The Times' Kate Zernike devotes a story to a poll showing cooling Tea Party support, suggesting the group's "hard-line" and "extreme" stance was "dragging down" the GOP. Meanwhile, the paper has completely ignored two polls showing a sharp downturn in the appeal of Occupy Wall Street. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Polls, Double Standards, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111130011514.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20111129014453 Clay Waters Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:44:00 -0400 Also, the former editor's crash course in economics comes up short: "The Web site PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-winning fact-checking service, recently did a thorough debunking of Republican claims that Obama's 2009 stimulus program created, quote, 'zero jobs.' In fact...the stimulus created or saved a couple of million jobs." Bill Keller http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111129014453.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20111129123512 Clay Waters Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:35:00 -0400 Times columnists can't get enough of The Onion's humor: "Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job." Not as hard as coming up with new column ideas, apparently. Barack Obama, James Taranto, Nicholas Kristof, Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111129123512.aspx 20111129104021 Clay Waters Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:40:00 -0400 Discussing the retirement of the extremely liberal Mass. Democrat, former reporter David Firestone shows he has a sense of humor: "But economically, Mr. Frank is essentially a centrist." David Firestone, Barney Frank, Labeling Bias, Congress, Campaign 2012, Abby Goodnough http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111129104021.aspx 20111128021134 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:11:00 -0400 Ohio State University professor Kevin Boyle: "Imagine a political movement created in a moment of terrible anxiety, its origins shrouded in a peculiar combination of manipulation and grass-roots mobilization, its ranks dominated by Christian conservatives and self-proclaimed patriots, its agenda driven by its members' fervent embrace of nationalism, nativism and moral regeneration, with more than a whiff of racism wafting through it. No, not that movement." Kevin Boyle, Tea Party, Ku Klux Klan, Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111128021134.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Boyle_KKK.jpg 20111128014815 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:48:00 -0400 Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn is credited by the Times with branding and inspiring the Occupy movement. What reporter William Yardley left out: Lasn's authorship and the title of Adbusters notorious 2004 attack on neo-cons and the Iraq War, "Why Won't Anyone Say They Are Jewish?" William Yardley, Kalle Lasn, Adbusters, Occupy Wall Street, David Brooks, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111128014815.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Kalle_Lasn.jpg 20111121033029 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:30:00 -0400 From explicit sex education, to praise for left-wing idol Elizabeth Warren, to another attack on fracking in Pennsylvania, the Sunday Magazine pushed liberalism from all angles this weekend. Sunday Magazine, Sex Education, Fracking, Elizabeth Warren, Liberalism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111121033029.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/sex_ed_nyt.jpg 20111121014444 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:44:00 -0400 Former poet laureate Robert Hass claims police brutality, then explains how it's all Reagan's fault: "Another of the contingencies that came to my mind was a moment 30 years ago when Ronald Reagan's administration made it a priority to see to it that people like themselves, the talented, hardworking people who ran the country, got to keep the money they earned. Roosevelt's New Deal had to be undealt once and for all." Robert Hass, Occupy Movement, Ronald Reagan, Sunday Review http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111121014444.aspx 20111121011532 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:15:00 -0400 Karen Crouse on a Massachusetts rule allowing boys to compete on girls' swim teams: "With every stroke they take, the boys are displacing more than water. They could knock girls off the awards podium and make it harder for girls to qualify for All-Star honors and the postseason." The Times never showed similar concern when boys' wrestling programs were being cut in the name of federally mandated gender equality. Karen Crouse, Gender Bias, Athletics, Swimming, TItle IX, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111121011532.aspx 20111121125508 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:54:00 -0400 Economics reporter Catherine Rampell traces the GOP's stubborn refusal to raise taxes back to the 1970s and the Laffer Curve. Catherine Rampell, Taxes, Congress, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111121125508.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Catherine_Rampell.jpg 20111118014918 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:49:00 -0400 Tea Party beat reporter Kate Zernike uses up her quote of sarcastic quotation marks in a story on an unofficial Tea Party hearing: "[Republican Sen. Mike] Lee promptly led the activists down the street to a room at an outpost of Hillsdale College, a conservative institution that has taught its interpretation of the Constitution - but apparently not the Senate rules - to many Tea Party supporters. There, the activists resumed their meeting. Or hearing?" A 2005 story on a far-left hearing to impeach President Bush was treated with far more respect by Times reporter Scott Shane. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Congress, Double Standards, Scott Shane http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111118014918.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20111118122622 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:26:00 -0400 More hard-hitting Times coverage of the First Lady: "In an administration in which so much has gone awry, Michelle Obama has become a dependable source of good news....Will the president's no-nonsense wife, who never wanted to be in politics in the first place, save the day for him?" Jodi Kantor, Michelle Obama, Books, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111118122622.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jodi_Kantor.jpg 20111118113715 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:37:00 -0400 Fawning over nose-rings: "He was drawn to the diversity of his subjects: both vibrant characters and next-door-neighbor types." Occupy Wall Street, Photography, Lens, Kerry MacDonald, August Bradley http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111118113715.aspx 20111118112134 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:21:00 -0400 Richard Oppel Jr.: "As Mr. Perry has painted himself as the cure for Washington's ills, however, some his recent attacks have drifted into the realm of falsehood, repeating some of the themes of past critiques suggesting that Mr. Obama is elitist." Richard Oppel Jr., Campaign 2012, Barack Obama, Rick Perry, Larry Rohter http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111118112134.aspx 20111117125714 Clay Waters Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:57:00 -0400 The Times buried revelations that the Obama administration asked Solyndra to delay announcing it would lay off workers until after the 2010 midterm elections, not even mentioning the word "Obama." The same day it made the front page of the Washington Post. Solyndra, Emails, Layoffs, Barack Obama, Matthew Wald, Washington Post, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111117125714.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Matthew_Wald.jpg 20111117111812 Clay Waters Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:18:00 -0400 A day after Times Watch noted its omission, Obama's "57 states" flub finally appears in a Times news story: "And Democrats have made plenty of gaffes in the past, including President Obama, who once said he had visited 57 states." Michael Shear, Barack Obama, 57 States, Gaffes, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111117111812.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20111116020431 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:04:00 -0400 "...Germany has floated above the fray. While its economy has hummed along nicely, its leaders have steadfastly insisted that the path to redemption for the debtors lies in austerity and suffering....Germany's continued prosperity has helped fuel growing anger in countries like Greece and Spain against what is increasingly viewed as harsh German domination....but at times in Germany it has taken the shape of Wagnerian opera, with Germany cast as the dragon guarding its hoard of gold." Nicholas Kulish, Germany, Greece, Austerity http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111116020431.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/nicholas-kulish.jpg 20111116010059 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:00:00 -0400 There they go again. Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg: "The easy treatment of Mr. Romney has also allowed him to avoid getting mired in promises to the far right wing of his party...." Jeff Zeleny, Jim Rutenberg, Labeling Bias, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111116010059.aspx 20111116114319 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:43:00 -0400 Executive Editor Jill Abramson promised the Times was "proceeding on multiple fronts with stories that get at the heart of the issues that OWS brings up - income inequality, the lingering effects of the financial crisis and economic stagnation, the seemingly bottomless fall in home values." Just like they did with the Tea Party's signature issues, right? Arthur Brisbane, Occupy Wall Street, Public Editor, Jill Abramson, Adbusters, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111116114319.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Abramson_CBS_Sunday_Morning_10_11.JPG 20111116111218 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:12:00 -0400 The Sunday Review, more left-wing every week. Contributor Harold Bloom: "Our Great Emancipator of Selfishness, President Ronald Reagan...appropriated anyway as the archangel of American spiritualized greed." Jeffrey Sachs: "We are at the end of the 30-year Reagan era, a period that has culminated in soaring income for the top 1 percent and crushing unemployment or income stagnation for much of the rest." Harold Bloom, Jeffrey Sachs, Ronald Reagan, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111116111218.aspx 20111115122649 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:26:00 -0400 She said it, we didn't: "I agree with every pundit who argues that I have no place in the mainstream media." - Natasha Lennard, NYT freelancer and Occupy Wall Street tactical advisor. Natasha Lennard, Occupy Wall Street, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111115122649.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Lennard_new.jpg 20111115120951 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:09:00 -0400 In his latest column, former executive editor Bill Keller picks out the "sane" GOP candidate, Mitt "Let them eat cake" Romney, and predicts "Newt Gingrich will pass like a tantrum." Bill Keller, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111115120951.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20111115105749 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:57:00 -0400 Michael Shear said: "President Obama had that famous thing where he once said I think there were 57 states." But the Times barely mentioned Obama's "famous" flub. Meanwhile, Gov. Rick Perry's "oops" moment at a GOP debate garnered front-page coverage. Michael Shear, Sam Roberts, Barack Obama, Rick Perry, 57 States, Gaffes, Bias By Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111115105749.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20111114031108 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:11:00 -0400 A producer prodded the CNBC debate hosts to keep Perry on the spot: "Since our tasks as moderators included keeping the conversation moving, Maria began asking a new question. But our senior producer, who communicated with us throughout the debate through our earpieces, recognized the moment faster than we did. 'DON'T STOP!' the producer, Sandy Cannold, called out." John Harwood, Rick Perry, Campaign 2012, Republican Debate, Gaffes, CBS http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111114031108.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Harwood_John_240x250.jpg 20111114024827 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:48:00 -0400 Alan Cowell: "As the riots in London and elsewhere in August seemed to show, the profound gulf between haves and have-nots has been magnified by the inequalities and envies of a society that has built its newest altars to consumption and greed." Alan Cowell, Austerity, World War II http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111114024827.aspx 20111114124032 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:40:00 -0400 T. A. Frank on Herman Cain, for the Times Magazine: "Let us pause here to make a necessarily severe assessment: to say that Herman Cain has an imperfect grasp of policy would be unfair not only to George W. Bush in 1999 but also to Britney Spears in 1999. Herman Cain seems like someone who, quite frankly, has never opened a newspaper." Herman Cain, T.A. Frank, Magazine, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111114124032.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Cain_TAFrank.jpg 20111111035632 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:56:00 -0400 Plus: "For Children's Sake, Taking to the Streets" at Occupy Wall Street, Opinion Editor 'Alarmed' at 'Right Wing' Pushback on Cain Story, and GOP "a Danger to Itself and to the Country." Kate Zernike, Paul Krugman, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Andrew Rosenthal http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111111035632.aspx 20111111122908 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:29:00 -0400 "After more than a week of battling accusations that he sexually harassed a number of subordinates while he was chief of the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s, Mr. Cain faces a new challenge: calibrating his campaign behavior toward women in an atmosphere newly colored by the allegations....any stray remark or campaign photograph could create a public relations problem if seen as unduly rude, flirtatious or aggressive toward women....At a campaign stop Thursday at a diner in Ypsilanti, Mich., the mood turned unusually tense when a bodyguard for Mr. Cain tried to move a reporter out of the candidate's path. The reporter, a woman, objected, saying, 'Please don't touch me, sir!'" The bodyguard responded, 'Now you listen here, lady.' Campaign events are not usually genteel, but the tone of the incident did not help Mr. Cain's perception issue." Herman Cain, Susan Saulny, Campaign 2012, Sexual Harassment http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111111122908.aspx 20111111120242 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:41:00 -0400 The Texas Tribune's Ross Ramsey writes: "His 'oops' - during a debate on Wednesday night...may be the first word in the autopsy report on his presidential campaign.....To turn this around, he has got to show voters quickly that he's not a joke..." Rick Perry, Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111111120242.aspx 20111110022846 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:28:00 -0400 Former reporter Firestone on the GOP field: "These candidates are peddling the worst kind of easy fairy tales to those voters who value simplistic prescriptions over hard choices. President Obama may have oversold the effects of his 2009 stimulus program, but it unquestionably saved millions of jobs. Mowing down regulations and government programs at the rate favored by Republican candidates might lower the deficit, but at an enormous cost to public safety, educational quality and innovation that would damage the economy for generations." David Firestone, Rick Perry, Campaign 2012, Debates http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111110022846.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Firestone.jpg 20111110010523 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:05:00 -0400 "Unfortunately, Mississippi voters were not as enlightened, approving a new requirement for identification cards at the polls. But, even the voters in that state, one of the country's most conservative, decisively rejected an amendment to ban abortion by declaring a fertilized egg as a person." Editorial, Campaign 2011, Mississippi, Voter ID, Abortion http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111110010523.aspx 20111110122535 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:25:00 -0400 So what did AG Eric Holder know and when did he know it? Savage doesn't say: "Senator Charles E. Grassley...also sought to keep the focus on Fast and Furious, grilling Mr. Holder about what and when he and other top officials had known about the tactics used in the program." The Washington Post by contrast ran on a story on page 2 headlined "Holder amends remarks on gun sting." Eric Holder, Fast and Furious, Gun Walking, Charlie Savage, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111110122535.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Eric_Holder.jpg 20111109032843 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:28:00 -0400 But exactly who was French President Sarkozy talking to? "In Overheard Comments, Sarkozy Calls Netanyahu a 'Liar.'" and "Romney on Israel, Intentionally." Barack Obama, Nicholas Sarkozy, Benjamin Netanyahu, Isabel Kershner, Headlines, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111109032843.aspx 20111109014056 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:40:00 -0400 Go OWS! Steven Greenhouse on Big Labor's "flirtation" with Occupy Wall Street: "Labor unions, marveling at how the protesters have fired up the public on traditional labor issues like income inequality, are also starting to embrace some of the bold tactics and social media skills of the Occupy movement....Organized labor is also seizing on the simplicity of the Occupy movement's message, which criticizes the great wealth of the top 1 percent of Americans compared with the economic struggles of much of the bottom 99 percent. Steven Greenhouse, Labor Unions, Occupy Wall Street http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111109014056.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Steven_Greenhouse.jpg 20111109012641 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:26:00 -0400 Finally, the Times starts doing what the New York Post has been doing for weeks: "The arrest of a Crown Heights man last week on charges of sexually assaulting a protester at Zuccotti Park added to an already raucous public discussion of lawlessness at the site, where a revolving group of demonstrators has been camped for nearly eight weeks. Stories of crimes and dangerous behavior, mostly anecdotal, have been used as fuel by those who say the protesters must go." Cara Buckley, Matt Flegenheimer, Occupy Wall Street, NYPD, Crime, New York Post, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111109012641.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/OWS_NYPD.jpg 20111108025230 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:52:00 -0400 No Kakutani-Clinton controversy here: Bill Clinton's new book is "a lucid one-man rebuttal of the Tea Party's anti-government agenda. A series of shrewd talking points for Democrats trying to hold on to the White House and battling for control of Congress in the midst of a sour economy and growing voter discontent." Michiko Kakutani, Bill Clinton, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111108025230.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Clinton_Kakutani.jpg 20111108105120 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:51:00 -0400 "The Occupy Wall Street protest continues to inspire demonstrators across the nation and beyond....Headlines lately have focused on two nights of sporadic violence in Oakland, Calif., marked by firebombs and police tear gas. But members of the main body of 7,000 peaceful protesters quickly apologized and denounced what even the Oakland police characterized as a minority of self-styled anarchists exploiting from the fringe." Occupy Wall Street, Editorial, Violence, Oakland http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111108105120.aspx 20111108103318 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:33:00 -0400 More silly sniping at Mitt Romney: "According to Ms. McClanahan, about an hour into the flight....she told him her idea for improving the American health care system: 'He looked at me blankly and said, 'I understand,' then put his iPad headphones in and kept reading,' she said." Scandalous! Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, Air Travel, Emmarie Huetteman, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111108103318.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Emmarie_Huetteman.jpg 20111107015133 Tim Graham Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:51:00 -0400 Brooks talking Herman Cain on NPR: "He was a TV show that lasted for a little while. Listen, let me stand up for elitist insiders. This is a job for professionals. Running for office is a job for professionals. Governing is a job for professionals. What Herman Cain did this week - let's leave aside the harassment - his handling of this was completely unprofessional....he is what he has been, an entertaining, very likable TV show..." David Brooks, NPR, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111107015133.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Brooks.jpg 20111107011735 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:17:00 -0400 Richard Stevenson: "...there's a persuasive case that the report actually did not get it all that wrong....Despite repeated Republican claims to the contrary, the stimulus bill created at least hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to nearly all nonpartisan analysts, including the Congressional Budget Office. But it's impossible to compress the nuance onto a bumper sticker." Richard Stevenson, Barack Obama, Stimulus, Campaign 2012, Unemployment http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111107011735.aspx 20111107123822 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:38:00 -0400 The Times today: "Many protesters say the lawless visitors constitute a tiny fringe and are not representative of the movement....the criminal and antisocial elements are a small minority..." Versus a Times reporter's 2010 book on the Tea Party: "It was difficult, if not disingenuous, for the Tea Party groups to try to disown the behavior. They had organized the rally, and under their model of self-policing, they were responsible for the behavior of people who were there. And after saying for months that anybody could be a Tea Party leader, they could not suddenly dismiss as faux Tea Partiers those protesters who made them look bad." Cara Buckley, Colin Moynihan, Occupy Wall Street, Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111107123822.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/OWS_Winter.jpg 20111107121524 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:15:00 -0400 So much for presumed innocent. Sam Roberts on Herman Cain's response to anonymous sexual harassment allegations: "But isn't the more fundamental question, that he has no one except himself to blame?" Herman Cain, Sexual Harassment, Podcast, Sam Roberts, Michael Shear, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111107121524.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Cain.jpg 20111104030533 Clay Waters Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:05:00 -0400 To Eric Lichtblau, the left-wing Food Research Action Council, which pushes the misleading "food stamp challenge" publicity stunt, is merely "a Washington advocacy group working with religious organizations to fight cuts in nutrition programs." Eric Lichtblau, Welfare, Budget Cuts, Food Stamp Challenge, FRAC, Labeling Bias, Congress, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111104030533.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/salad.jpg 20111104013823 Clay Waters Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:38:00 -0400 But reporter Jason DeParle once condemned Bill Clinton for signing a welfare reform bill that "begrudges poor infants their Pampers." Jason DeParle, Poverty, Census Bureau, Welfare Reform http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111104013823.aspx 20111104010616 Clay Waters Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:06:00 -0400 The Times conveniently blames "fringe protesters" for violence after an "orderly day" of marches. But just how "fringe" were the vandals and fire-setters? Mari a Wollan, Occupy Oakland, Protests, Riots http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111104010616.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Oakland_Vandalism.jpg 20111103014340 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:43:00 -0400 Columnist Kristof: "So as we greet the seven-billionth human, let's try to delay the arrival of the eight billionth. We should all be able to agree on voluntary family planning as a cost-effective strategy to reduce poverty, conflict and environmental damage. If you think family planning is expensive, you haven't priced babies." Nicholas Kristof, Overpopulation, Birth Control, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111103014340.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/NicholasKristof.jpg 20111103011435 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:14:00 -0400 Protest priorities at the Times? A single protester of a move by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Arizona redistricting garnered the second-most space of any photograph in Thursday's edition. Arizona, Redistricting, Damien Cave, Photograph http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111103011435.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/AZ_protest.jpg 20111103110029 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:00:00 -0400 Maria Wollan for Thursday's edition: "Despite the disruption of work, the crowd at the port was peaceful." Many paragraphs later: "The mood at the protest remained jovial throughout the day...though some graffiti appeared on the walls of banks and there were reports of several broken windows at banks and other businesses." Occupy Oakland, Maria Wollan, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111103110029.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Oakland_Burning.jpg 20111102015014 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:50:00 -0400 Columnist Maureen Dowd: "Even Barack Obama couldn't be lucky enough to waltz past two wacky black conservatives, first Alan Keyes and then Cain. The Herminator was just a raffish passing fancy..." Maureen Dowd, Herman Cain, Sexual Harassment, Ann Coulter http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111102015014.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Dowd_GMA.jpg 20111102123116 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:31:00 -0400 Mireya Navarro: "As recently as the 1970s, the subject of population control was less controversial, partly because the baby boom years had given rise to concerns about scarcity of resources, some population experts and environmentalists said. Then came China's coercive one-child policy and a rise in social conservatism in the United States, combined with the country's aversion to anything perceived as restricting individual freedoms, be it the right to bear arms or children." Mireya Navarro, Environment, Overpopulation, Abortion, Center for Biological Diversity, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111102123116.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mireya_Navarro.jpg 20111102120442 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:04:00 -0400 "...Mr. Obama's order and others he has issued recently reflect his belief in the power of government to improve people's lives. By contrast, top Republican legislators and presidential candidates have almost uniformly argued that resolving the nation's economic and other problems depends mostly on scaling back or ending government regulations to allow the free market to function more effectively." Gardiner Harris, Barack Obama, Drugs, FDA, Regulation http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111102120442.aspx 20111101032855 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:28:00 -0400 Andrew Rosenthal, another liberal still whining about the Willie Horton ad: "...it was the Republicans who perfected the art of injecting racial fears into modern-day politics (remember Willie Horton in 1988?) and have conducted an unrelenting personal attack on President Obama that sometimes has not-so-subtle racial overtones." He even sees racism in a Herman Cain ad that dares call Obama a (gasp!) "community organizer." Andrew Rosenthal, Herman Cain, Racism, Willie Horton, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111101032855.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Andrew_Rosenthal.jpg 20111101021553 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:15:00 -0400 Jennifer Steinhauer: "While the Republican presidential campaign trail bristles with talk of moats, militarization and electrified fences when it comes to illegal immigration, the view among some Congressional Republicans has become more nuanced and measured....some leading Republican voices are warning that the view of their party among Hispanics is doing significant political damage and causing economic disruption." Jennifer Steinhauer, Illegal Immigration, Campaign 2012, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111101021553.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20111101013211 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:32:00 -0400 While the Times put 15-year-old anonymous accusations of sexual harassment against GOP candidate Herman Cain on the front page just one full day after they surfaced, it waited 10 months before covering allegations of adultery against Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards - after the candidate himself was compelled to confess. Herman Cain, Campaign 2012, Sexual Harassment, Double Standards, John Edwards, John McCain, Campaign 2008, Bill Keller, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111101013211.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Cain.jpg 20111031022827 Clay Waters Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:26:00 -0400 Reporter turned editorial board member Eduardo Porter: "Occupiers of Zuccotti Park and other sites around the country have been criticized for the fuzziness of their goals. Their complaint that the privileged few in the top 1 percent are getting a disproportionate share of the nation's prosperity, however, is spot on." Eduardo Porter, Occupy Wall Street, Income http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111031022827.aspx 20111031012743 Clay Waters Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:25:00 -0400 "A three-year investigation into the police's habit of fixing traffic and parking tickets in the Bronx ended in the unsealing of indictments on Friday and a stunning display of vitriol by hundreds of off-duty officers, who converged on the courthouse to applaud their accused colleagues and denounce their prosecution....The outpouring of angry officers at the courthouse....raises unsettling questions about the current mind-set of the police force." N.R Kleinfield, John Eligon, NYPD, Arrests http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111031012743.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Police.jpg 20111031125024 Clay Waters Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:48:00 -0400 Huh? Times writer Robert Worth: Arab revolution lacks "intellectual standard-bearers" like Lenin and Mao that could provide "became symbols of a people's aspirations." It's not the first time Worth has given a nod to Communism. The text box: "The upheavals of the Middle East lack a Mao or a Thomas Paine. Do they need one?" Robert Worth, Communism, Mao, Lenin http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111031125024.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Robert_Worth.jpg 20111031121624 Clay Waters Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:14:00 -0400 An editorial finally acknowledged the paper's blinkered liberal failure to connect the seemingly obvious idea that crime falls when more criminals are behind bars, as captured by a notorious 1997 Times headline: "Crime Keeps on Falling, But Prisons Keep on Filling." As if the two trends were unrelated. Crime, Prisons, Gaffes, Headlines, Fox Butterfield http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111031121624.aspx 20111028022006 Clay Waters Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:19:00 -0400 That's one way of putting it. Campbell Robertson reports "The champions of Alabama's far-reaching immigration law have said that it is intended to drive illegal immigrants from the state by making every aspect of their life difficult." Campbell Robertson, Illegal Immigration, Alabama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111028022006.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Campbell_Robertson.jpg 20111028013259 Clay Waters Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:32:00 -0400 Corey Kilgannon relays some "jokes" from an Occupy Wall Street comedy night. Imagine the Times' reaction if it had been a Tea Party gathering. "'You need a little knife in the gut once in a while,' joked the comedian Danny Vitale, during a comedy night held for the protesters at the Yippie Museum Café on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village on Wednesday night. Mr. Vitale said that even the Peace Movement of the 1960s had a need for some muscle, citing the claim that the Hell's Angels were used as a security force at the 1969 Altamont Speedway Free Festival." Corey Kilgannon, Occupy Wall Street, Comedian, Violence, Danny Vitale, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111028013259.aspx 20111028010643 Clay Waters Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:05:00 -0400 The Times virtually ignores anti-cop violence at the Occupy Oakland encampment, in favor of a sympathetic story on a veteran injured at the protest: "For supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose diffuse anger has been a defining and sometimes distracting characteristic, the wounding of an Iraq war veteran here has provided a powerful central rallying point." Jesse McKinley, Malia Wollan, Occupy Wall Street, Oakland, Violence, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111028010643.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Oakland.jpg 20111027020612 Clay Waters Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:06:00 -0400 How cute: "And so it goes in the second month of Occupy Wall Street, where children are becoming an increasing presence as parents try to seize a 'teachable moment' to enlighten them on matters ranging from income inequality to the right to protest." Helaine Olen, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Children, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111027020612.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Children_OWS.jpg 20111027123519 Clay Waters Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:35:00 -0400 OWS lefties are right, reporter says: "Those numbers suggest that the Occupy Wall Street protesters can make a compelling case when they complain that the economic scales are unfairly tilted toward the wealthy. The megarich hold more of the nation's wealth and collect more of the overall income today than at any time since right before the Great Depression....The wealthiest of the wealthy control more of the country's treasure than at any other time for which data are available." Sam Roberts, Robert Pear, Occupy Wall Street, Income Inequality, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111027123519.aspx 20111027122100 Tim Graham Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:21:00 -0400 Times editor Jill Abramson still carries torch for Anita Hill, in an interview with NPR's Diane Rehm: "...I think that Anita Hill, you used the word catalyst, and I think that's a very, very good word. She was. She saw herself of course as merely a citizen doing her duty, that she came to Washington, the Judiciary Committee asked her to come and she testified. And I'm not sure in real time she realized the impact of her testimony and that many women across the world understood what sexual harassment was. But it seemed a new issue to many other people." Jill Abramson, Diane Rehm, Maureen Dowd, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111027122100.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Abramson_CBS_Sunday_Morning_10_11.JPG 20111026031924 Clay Waters Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:19:00 -0400 "Should the bill ultimately fail, Democrats believe they at least have the better political argument, and they vow to exploit what they call the Republicans' obstruction in the 2012 campaign. Yet any political benefit would be small consolation for the White House, given the forecasts of nonpartisan economists that without such a stimulus plan, the economy is likely to relapse into recession next year just as the president faces re-election." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, Stimulus http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111026031924.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20111026015642 Clay Waters Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:56:00 -0400 Richard Oppel Jr.: "The plan also proposes reducing the scope of the federal government by requiring drastically austere federal budgets - compared with what exists now - that spend no more than 18 percent of the nation's gross domestic product....it would mark the lowest level of spending relative to G.D.P. since the mid-1960s, though rising tax receipts during the roaring economy of a dozen years ago temporarily brought the level close to 18 percent." In other words, back to the brutal, budget-slashing days of the Clinton administration. , TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111026015642.aspx 20111026013132 Clay Waters Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:31:00 -0400 "The combustible climate helps explain the volatility of the presidential race and has provided an opening for protest movements like Occupy Wall Street, to highlight grievances about banks, income inequality and a sense that the poor and middle class have been disenfranchised. Almost half of the public thinks the sentiment at the root of the Occupy movement generally reflects the views of most Americans." By contrast, the Times' polling of Tea Party supporters found them "angry" and ideologically inconsistent. Jeff Zeleny, Megan Thee-Brenan, Polls, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111026013132.aspx 20111026110833 Clay Waters Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:08:00 -0400 The Times' Andrew Rosenthal told James Taranto his paper had not endorsed John McCain in the Republican primary in 2008: "We said he was best of BAD choices. No endorsement." So why did other newspaper and even the Times itself say it endorsed McCain? Andrew Rosenthal, James Taranto, Endorsements, John McCain, Campaign 2008, Herman Cain, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111026110833.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Andrew_Rosenthal.jpg 20111025030817 Clay Waters Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:07:00 -0400 Joe Nocera: "[Bork's] nomination battle is also a reminder that our poisoned politics is not just about Republicans behaving badly, as many Democrats and their liberal allies have convinced themselves. Democrats can be - and have been - every bit as obstructionist, mean-spirited and unfair. I'll take it one step further. The Bork fight, in some ways, was the beginning of the end of civil discourse in politics." Joe Nocera, Robert Bork, Columnist, Democrats http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111025030817.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MorningJoe-Nocera-2011-08-09-240.jpg 20111025094356 Tim Graham Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:43:00 -0400 Pacifica Radio and its best-known broadcast, Democracy Now, can be easily identified as a radical-left enterprise. Currently, it touts the Occupy Wall Street protests with leftist guests like Michael Moore and Cornel West. But a sympathetic profile by media reporter Brian Stelter was merely headlined "A Grass-Roots Network Gives a Voice to Struggles." Some call Pacifica "progressive" (that's putting it mildly), but their anchor Amy Goodman wasn't even accepting that label. Brian Stelter, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Bias By Omission, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111025094356.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Brian_Stelter_2011.JPG 20111024013003 Clay Waters Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:30:00 -0400 Joseph Berger spins away accusations of anti-Semitism against OWS: "The Occupy Wall Street protests...have increasingly been criticized by a variety of groups, most of them politically conservative, for flashes of anti-Semitism....But the protests have also, on occasion, had a distinctly Jewish flavor: The encampment has coincided with the busy Jewish holiday season and has witnessed, in its midst or on its edges, a crowded Kol Nidre service on Yom Kippur, festive dancing with a scroll on Simchat Torah on Thursday night, and the sukkah." Joseph Berger, OWS, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Tea Party, Racism, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111024013003.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/OWS_Jews.jpg 20111024123912 Clay Waters Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:39:00 -0400 Lennard's comments, alternately post-modern and potty-mouthed, were peppered with potshots at the NYPD: "...one bloody face courtesy of New York's less than finest." Also, self-policing "is a risk that Occupy Wall Street faces, as much as the baton-wielding, helmet-wearing monsters who seem to actually push the movement into a more exciting place every week." Natasha Lennard, Occupy Wall Street, Gaffes, Jacobin, Marxism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111024123912.aspx 20111021014520 Clay Waters Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:45:00 -0400 NYTimes: "Mitt Romney has raised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from the firms that have been among Wall Street's top sources of donations for the two candidates." But "Those figures do not account for all Wall Street giving." WashPost: Obama has raised "far more money this year from the financial and banking sector than Mitt Romney or any other Republican presidential candidate, according to new fundraising data." Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Wall Street, Donations, Washington Post, Gaffes, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111021014520.aspx 20111021124613 Clay Waters Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:46:00 -0400 "Overall, what struck me was how non-threatening the thing is: a modest-sized, good-natured crowd, mostly young (it was a cold and windy evening) but with plenty of middle-aged people there, not all that scruffy." And Rep. Paul Ryan is still "clownish" and dishonest. Paul Krugman, Occupy Wall Street, Paul Ryan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111021124613.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Ryan_CNN_092511_20110927160701.jpg 20111021104317 Clay Waters Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:43:00 -0400 Gail Collins is still "haunted by Seamus," the story of Mitt Romney's family dog strapped to the car roof in a crate, mentioning the infamous incident 23 times over four years of columns. Gail Collins, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, Dog Crate, Seamus, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111021104317.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.JPG 20111020010433 Clay Waters Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:04:00 -0400 The Times can always hope: "Today, Republican candidates are competing over who can talk the toughest about illegal immigration - who will erect the most impenetrable border defense; who will turn off 'magnets' like college tuition benefits. But after such pointed proposals heated up yet another Republican debate...some party officials see a yellow light signaling danger in battleground states with large Hispanic populations in November 2012. Will Hispanic voters remember and punish the eventual Republican nominee?" Trip Gabriel, Julia Preston, Illegal Immigration, Border Fence http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111020010433.aspx 20111020123302 Clay Waters Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:32:00 -0400 Susan Saulny: "And while his casual style of racially inflected humor works to ingratiate him with mostly white audiences at campaign rallies, it has angered some black critics, who believe he uses age-old stereotypes...." Her source? Cain haters Cornel West and Harry Belafonte. Saulny even let a professor accuse Cain of "minstrelsy." Susan Saulny, Campiagn 2012, Republicans, Bias by Omission, Herman Cain, Racism, Stereotypes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111020123302.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Cain.jpg 20111019022707 Clay Waters Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:27:00 -0400 Brooks Barnes asks the important questions: "Over a two-hour dinner at a trendy restaurant here earlier this month, [Pixar founder and film director John Lasseter] was at turns solemn and introspective yet genuinely ebullient when describing how much he loves the 'Cars' franchise. He didn't want to talk much about certain aspects of Pixar, like the studio's shortage of directors who are women and female protagonists in its films." Brooks Barnes, Movies, Cars 2, Sexism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111019022707.aspx 20111019015405 Clay Waters Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:54:00 -0400 Last year the Times sent a reporter to Idaho to produce a 4,500 word front-page hit piece on the Tea Party, inaccurately linking it to unsavory anti-government radicals. Yet the paper is not at all curious about the unsavory anti-Jewish background of the magazine that instigated the leftist OWS sit-in, including the notorious 2004 attack on neo-conservatives, "Why Won't Anyone Say They Are Jewish?" J. David Goodman, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Adbusters, Anti-Semitism, Bias by Omission, Robert Halper http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111019015405.aspx 20111018040605 Clay Waters Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:06:00 -0400 Jennifer Steinhauer and Steven Yaccino: "But Mr. Walsh's own finances are not quite in step with the tight-ship budgeting he calls for in Washington. According to a lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, he owes more than $100,000 in child support, an accusation he denies. There have been other financial setbacks." Jennifer Steinhauer, Steven Yaccino, Joe Walsh, Alan Grayson, Double Standards, Tea Party, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111018040605.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Joe_Walsh.jpg 20111018030924 Clay Waters Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:09:00 -0400 Michael Kimmelman's piece on the Aristotelian "polis" of Occupy Wall Street was accompanied by photos of legendary protests from Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall. When the Times reached back for a Tea Party analog, it found...the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground. Michael Kimmleman, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Photographs, Double Standards, Terrorism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111018030924.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/T_Square.jpg 20111018023319 Clay Waters Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400 More charm from Matt Bai: The GOP needs "someone who can take the call for austerity in Washington and make it sound more like a high-minded reform movement (in the tradition of a Robert La Follette or even a Ross Perot) than like something you would expect to hear at a survivalists' convention." Matt Bai, Campaign 2012, Republicans, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111018023319.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20111017031150 Clay Waters Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:11:00 -0400 "In the United States, the right wing of the Republican Party has managed to turn skepticism about man-made global warming into a requirement for electability, forming an unlikely triad with antiabortion and gun-rights beliefs." Elisabeth Rosenthal, Global Warming, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111017031150.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Elisabeth_Rosenthal.jpg 20111017023339 Clay Waters Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400 Liberal condescension at the Times over privately whispered opposition to the Occupy Wall Street protests: "As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have grown and spread to other cities, an open question is: Do the bankers get it?" Occupy Wall Street, Nelson Schwartz, Eric Dash, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111017023339.aspx 20111017020101 Clay Waters Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:01:00 -0400 Ken Auletta on Jill Abramson, the Times' new executive editor: "An editorial voice in news stories adds credence to the frequent charge that the Times' news reporting often displays a liberal bias – a critique that will not be lessened by the elevation of a woman brought up in a liberal-Democratic household on the West Side of Manhattan who worked for liberal Southern Democrats and wrote a book asserting that Clarence Thomas probably lied." Jill Abramson, Ken Auletta, Rita Braver, CBS News, New Yorker, Liberal Bias, Clarence Thomas, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111017020101.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Abramson_CBS_Sunday_Morning_10_11.JPG 20111014125950 Clay Waters Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:59:00 -0400 Columnist Paul Krugman celebrates leftist protesters on Charlie Rose: "...I think the explosion of this movement really suggests that there were an awful lot of people who were just waiting for somebody to say it, and here we are, and it's a wonderful thing." Paul Krugman, Charlie Rose, Occupy Wall Street http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111014125950.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_Rose_10_12_11.jpg 20111014112148 Clay Waters Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:21:00 -0400 Double standards on story placement? A story on passage of trade agreements promising "minor" economic benefits makes Thursday's lead slot and is trumpeted as a "political victory," yet when Obama's heralded jobs bill goes down to defeat, the "major setback" is buried on A13. Barack Obama, Jobs, Trade, Congress, Double Standards, Story Placement http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111014112148.aspx 20111013033415 Clay Waters Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:34:00 -0400 Times media reporter reports reporting on Occupy Wall Street: "As the Occupy Wall Street message of representing 99 percent of Americans has spread across the country, news media coverage of the Occupy movement has spread, too, to the front pages of newspapers and the tops of television newscasts. Coverage of the movement last week was, for the first time, quantitatively equivalent to early coverage of the Tea Party movement in early 2009...." Stelter wasn't exactly as supportive of the Tea Party movement. Brian Stelter, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111013033415.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Brian_Stelter_2011.JPG 20111013022050 Clay Waters Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:20:00 -0400 Evan Lehmann, reporter for Times-affiliated Climate Wire, throws out some red meat for the IRS: "The conservative nonprofit Americans for Prosperity unleashed a volley of ads aimed at Democrats in last year's midterm elections, but it recently reported to the IRS that it was not active in political campaign activities....Joining Americans for Prosperity in this list of nonprofits are several environmental groups. In 2009, when AFP raised $16.3 million, Sierra Club raised $82.5 million, Greenpeace raised $26 million and Environmental Defense Action Fund raised $19.5 million." So where is the expose on those groups? Evan Lehmann, Climate Change, Americans for Prosperity, Environment, IRS, Koch Brothers http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111013022050.aspx 20111013123854 Clay Waters Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:38:00 -0400 He's surely there in spirit: "Some readers have been asking me to go make a speech at one of the OWS demonstrations. If you think about it, however, you'll see why I can't." Paul Krugman, Occupy Wall Street, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111013123854.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Ryan_CNN_092511_20110927160701.jpg 20111012033521 Clay Waters Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:35:00 -0400 Former Executive Editor Bill Keller talks of his paper's stance in Texas: "...we are liberal in the sense that we are open-minded, tolerant, urban. Our wedding page includes - and did even before New York had a gay marriage law - included gay unions. So we're liberal in that sense. Socially liberal." Bill Keller, Liberal Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111012033521.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20111012024051 Clay Waters Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:40:00 -0400 Former Executive Editor Bill Keller used an Obama-minted talking point to make a political statement about the tragic wildfires in Texas: "Actually there is a more immediately consequential link between the hands-off state and the ruins in Bastrop County....'Planning,' of course, is an expletive in the libertarian-leaning politics of Texas." Bill Keller, Andrew Revkin, Natural Disasters, Texas, Wildfire, Rick Perry http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111012024051.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20111011025204 Clay Waters Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:52:00 -0400 Times media reporter Brian Stelter marked the 15th anniversary of Fox News by accusing host Sean Hannity of "instigating" "inflammatory rhetoric," yet was silent on harsh things actually said by PBS leftist hosts Tavis Smiley and Cornel West in a non-critical story about their "poverty tour" across the U.S. Brian Stelter, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, Labeling Bias, PBS, Hunger http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111011025204.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hannity_Fox.jpg 20111011124123 Clay Waters Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:43:00 -0400 Bill Keller, the paper's former executive editor, on Gov. Perry: "Yes, his polls have withered under attack, and he's come across in a couple of debates as a doofus....[Perry provides] a wink to the evangelicals, a nod to the executioner, and an ardent defense of personal liberties for those who are heterosexual and don't need an abortion." Bill Keller, Campaign 2012, Republicans, Rick Perry, Tea Party, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111011124123.aspx 20111011111513 Clay Waters Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:15:00 -0400 Shocking news of Perry's racist past? Not exactly: "An early life in which exposure to diversity was not a common feature....In his early political career, Mr. Perry occasionally offended African-Americans and Hispanics. In his 1989 race for agriculture commissioner, for instance, he emphasized his opponent's endorsement of Jesse Jackson for president, running a commercial that many perceived to be aimed at white voters in East Texas." Rick Perry, Racism, Campaign 2012, Deborah Sontag, Manny Fernandez, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111011111513.aspx 20111010045506 Clay Waters Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:55:00 -0400 From designing protest logos to filing laudatory editorials and news stories, the Times is celebrating the leftist ("populist") protests on Wall Street: "As the Occupy Wall Street protests spread from Lower Manhattan to Washington and other cities, the chattering classes keep complaining that the marchers lack a clear message and specific policy prescriptions. The message - and the solutions - should be obvious to anyone who has been paying attention since the economy went into a recession that continues to sock the middle class while the rich have recovered and prospered." Occupy Wall Street, Protesters, Double Standards, Tea Party, Editorial, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111010045506.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/OWS_logo.jpg 20111007033437 Tim Graham Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:22:00 -0400 President Obama took two helpful questions from the New York Times on Thursday: What would he like to say to Wall Street protesters? And are they the liberal Tea Party? But the exchange was left out of the Times. Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111007033437.aspx 20111007125819 Ken Shepherd Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:58:00 -0400 Energy Department bureaucrat Jonathan Silver announced his resignation on Oct 6, effective the following day. He led the Energy Department office which approved the ill-fated $528 million loan to solar energy firm Solyndra. The Times buried staff writer Matthew Wald's story on page A17. Jonathan Silver, Solyndra, Barack Obama, resignation, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias, Matthew Wald http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111007125819.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/energyloanofficialresigns.JPG 20111006123107 Clay Waters Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:31:00 -0400 Promotional coverage of the Occupy Wall Street crowd on the front page of the Times: "In fact, the unexpected success of Occupy Wall Street in leveling criticism of corporate America has stirred some soul-searching among labor leaders. They have noted with envy that the new movement has done a far better job, not only of capturing interest, but also of attracting young people. Protests have spread to dozens of cities, including Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles." Steven Greenhouse, Cara Buckley, Unions, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111006123107.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/OWS_Unions.jpg 20111006095221 Clay Waters Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:52:00 -0400 Thomas Friedman declares one of the two major parties a danger to the nation: "When the G.O.P. presidential candidates were asked during their debate on Aug. 11 whether any of them would accept a budget deal that involved $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases - and they all said no - the Republican Party officially became a danger to itself and to the country." Thomas Friedman, Republicans, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111006095221.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_rant.JPG 20111006093930 Clay Waters Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:39:00 -0400 Gail Collins: "The Tea Party, whatever it pretends, is just the latest manifestation of the right wing's refusal to accept the idea of Democrats running the government. Every time one gets elected, there's this crazed right-wing upheaval." David Brooks, Gail Collins, Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111006093930.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.JPG 20111005022249 Clay Waters Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:22:00 -0400 Obama's a hit in Texas! Among college students, anyway: "'Give me a win? Give me a break,' he said, bringing the enthusiastic and diverse crowd of more than 1,000 to its feet." Jackie Calmes, Jennifer Steinhauer, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111005022249.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20111005013818 Clay Waters Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:38:00 -0400 When does the movie come out? "The vanishing began Wednesday night, the most frightened families packing up their cars as soon as they heard the news....In certain neighborhoods the streets are uncommonly quiet, like the aftermath of some sort of rapture....Not far from the plant, in the Hispanic neighborhoods, it is hard to differentiate the silence of the workday, the silence of abandonment or the silence of paralyzing fear." Campbell Robertson, Illegal Immigration, Alabama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111005013818.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Campbell_Robertson.jpg 20111005122011 Clay Waters Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:20:00 -0400 Reporter Nicholas Kulish gets label-happy in a dispatch from the euro-zone bailout battles. Nicholas Kulish, Labeling Bias, Austria, Bailout, Eurozone http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111005122011.aspx 20111004033443 Clay Waters Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:34:00 -0400 "The Rogue," Joe McGinniss's hatchet-job expose of Sarah Palin, is crammed with unverified anecdotes delivered by anonymous foes of Palin but was nonetheless favored with recognition in the Times Sunday Book Review. In contrast, Times archives are almost bereft of reviews of books by conservative personalities like Ann Coulter, even while she routinely make the paper's own bestseller list. Sarah Palin, Book Review, Joe McGinniss, Jack Shafer, Ann Coulter, Double Standard, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111004033443.aspx 20111004021957 Clay Waters Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:19:00 -0400 The Times treats the leftist "Occupiers" as a genuine popular movement: "A loose-knit populist campaign that started on Wall Street three weeks ago has spread to dozens of cities across the country...the Occupy Wall Street campaign...has clearly tapped into a deep vein of anger, experts in social movements said..." vs. the treatment of the Tea Party: "Others say that catering to the angry fringe will only keep the party small." Erik Eckholm, Timothy Williams, Occupy Wall Street, Double Standards, Tea Party, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111004021957.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Brooklyn_Bridge_protest.jpg 20111003041258 Clay Waters Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:12:00 -0400 "The campaign of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas found itself on the defensive on Sunday over a report that he had hunted at and taken guests to a West Texas camp with a racially charged name that his father, and later Mr. Perry, had leased....for Mr. Perry, 61, the crucial issues for his candidacy will most likely be how he reacted to seeing the slur and the timing of its removal from the rock." Rick Perry, Niggerhead, Campaign 2012, Racism, Texas, Herman Cain, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111003041258.aspx 20111003025852 Clay Waters Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:58:00 -0400 Unlike the other local papers, the Times took seriously suggestions that the leftist folks of "Occupy Wall Street" were tricked into blocking the Brooklyn Bridge by cops: "The police say marchers were to blame; protesters insist they were misled....But many protesters said they believed the police had tricked them, allowing them onto the bridge, and even escorting them partway across, only to trap them in orange netting after hundreds had entered." Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Ginia Bellafante, Nicholas Kristof, Natasha Lennard, Brooklyn Bridge, Tea Party, Double Standards, Colin Moynihan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111003025852.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Brooklyn_Bridge_protest.jpg 20110930025045 Clay Waters Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:50:00 -0400 This is an Arts story? "The show...is an ambitious attempt to call attention to the long-range impact of humanity's unrelenting thirst for energy. The melting of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau, at the headwaters of Asia's great rivers, threatens the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people downstream. Scientists say climate change is also responsible for the increasing unpredictability and strength of storms around the globe, and that impact is shown here in photographs by the American artist Clifford Ross of towering waves off the coast of Long Island during hurricane season." Edward Wong, China, Global Warming, Arts http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110930025045.aspx 20110930125716 Clay Waters Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:57:00 -0400 No credit for Perry on Texas's booming economy, but plenty of blame for him on health care: "But while Mr. Perry condemns both efforts to make carrying health insurance mandatory, Texas faces a staggering crisis in health coverage: the state leads the nation in the number of uninsured residents, has the third-lowest percentage of people covered by their employers and spends less per capita than all but one other state on Medicaid, the joint state-federal insurance program for the disabled and poor children." Rick Perry, Emily Ramshaw, Health Care, Campaign 2012, Texas Tribune http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110930125716.aspx 20110930121851 Clay Waters Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:18:00 -0400 Educated people alienated by the Tea Party: "With growing cities and suburbs, they are populated by increasing numbers of educated and higher-income independents, young voters, Hispanics and African-Americans, many of them alienated by Republicans' Tea Party agenda." Jackie Calmes, Mark Landler, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110930121851.aspx 20110929010654 Clay Waters Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:06:00 -0400 Today's big story: An online poll? "Moreover, the sense over the past two years that President Obama was growing angry with Israel and steering American policy away from its interests subsided last week....A Jerusalem Post online poll published on Wednesday showed the turnaround in the public mood about the president." Ethan Bronner, Israel, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110929010654.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ethan_Bronner.JPG 20110929105722 Clay Waters Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:57:00 -0400 How did a political opponent's playground insults against Gov. Chris Christie translate into proof of Christie's nastiness, as opposed to the immaturity of the politician himself? "After a tough budget battle in June, Stephen M. Sweeney, the Senate president and one of Mr. Christie's allies in the Legislature, called him 'a bully and a punk,' 'mean-spirited,' 'spoiled,' 'vindictive' and 'a cruel man,' adding, 'I wanted to punch him in his head.' Not exactly the stuff of happy-go-lucky bipartisanship and easygoing compromise." Michael Shear, Richard-Perez Pena, Chris Christie, New Jersey, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110929105722.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20110928022404 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:24:00 -0400 Nicholas Kulish: "Economics have been one driving force, with growing income inequality, high unemployment and recession-driven cuts in social spending breeding widespread malaise. Alienation runs especially deep in Europe, with boycotts and strikes that, in London and Athens, erupted into violence....Rampaging youths smashed store windows and set fires in London and beyond, using communication systems like BlackBerry Messenger to evade the police. They had savvy and technology, [left-wing author Owen] Jones said, but lacked a belief that the political system represented their interests. They also lacked hope." Nicholas Kulish, London Riots, Democracy, Europe http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110928022404.aspx 20110928013146 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:31:00 -0400 Landler lets Obama forward liberal mythology: "And [Obama] singled out Republican debate audiences for booing a gay soldier who had served in Iraq and for cheering the suggestion that a gravely ill man without health insurance be allowed to die." The "audiences" did no such thing, although one or two people shouted things. Mark Landler, Barack Obama, Labeling Bias, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110928013146.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mark_Landler.JPG 20110927032241 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:22:00 -0400 Krugman: "To be a little melodramatic, the voucher would kill people, no question....The cuts in Medicare that he's proposing, the replacement of Medicare by a voucher system, would in the end mean that tens of millions of older Americans would not be able to afford essential health care. So that counts as cruelty to me." Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, Medicare, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110927032241.aspx 20110927023810 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:38:00 -0400 Encountering opposing views in college? Perish the thought! Under the headline, "A 'Diversity Bake Sale' Backfires on Campus," reporter Malia Wollan suggests an upcoming conservative protest would make students uncomfortable: "Student leaders worried that the bake sale would make students uncomfortable and aggravate tensions on campus." , TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110927023810.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Malia_Wollan.jpg 20110926031412 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:14:00 -0400 Political reporter Jennifer Steinhauer continues to slant her ideological labeling, finding loads of conservatives in Congress but rarely identifying liberals. Jennifer Steinhauer, Labeling Bias, Congress, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110926031412.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20110926024650 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:46:00 -0400 A left-wing blogger/journalist calls out Ethan Bronner for his tie to a PR firm run by an alleged "Zionist." But excessive sympathy for the state of Israel is one thing that Bronner cannot be accused of, judging by his journalism, including describing Jewish settlers of going off "on an angry rampage." Ethan Bronner, Arthur Brisbane, Max Blumenthal, Israel, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110926024650.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ethan_Bronner.JPG 20110923011636 Clay Waters Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:16:00 -0400 Plus: Taxes now voluntary, and two-thirds into Obama's term, everything is still Bush's fault. Paul Krugman, Jackie Calmes, Michael Shear, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110923011636.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/NYT_Logo_Blue_New.JPG 20110923123639 Clay Waters Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:36:00 -0400 No, it wasn't: "And following the last debate, when Mr. Paul was asked whether a young man without health insurance should be left to go without treatment - which was greeted with some chants of 'let him die' from the crowd - expect more questions along these lines." Michael Shear, Paul Krugman, Gaffes, Ron Paul, Wolf Blitzer, Obamacare, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110923123639.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20110922013442 Clay Waters Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:34:00 -0400 Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is offended: "I have a confession to make. I can describe the legal arguments and the judicial conclusions, but on a fundamental level, I just don't get the attack on the federal law. I don't understand people who voluntarily, without claiming poverty, let their children go uninsured.I don't understand the moral compass of the owner of the fancy car I saw the other day that sported the bumper sticker: 'Repeal Obamacare.'" Linda Greenhouse, Obama-Care, Column, Supreme Court, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110922013442.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/LindaGreenhousePBS.jpg 20110922123649 Clay Waters Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:36:00 -0400 Parker on Romney, out of touch "In recent weeks, Mr. Romney's renovation of his $12 million home in the La Jolla section of San Diego has reinforced the fact that he is a wealthy man, forcing his campaign to work harder to avoid the implication that he is out of touch with the concerns of working people. (His quip in June to a group of jobless people in Florida that he, too, was unemployed did not help on that front.)" Plus: Jalapeno-gate! Ashley Parker, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110922123649.aspx 20110921123339 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:33:00 -0400 It's all Boehner's fault: "But their relationship was severely strained after Mr. Boehner abandoned their budget talks in July, came back and then walked out a second time. And after what the White House saw as a third strike this month - Mr. Boehner's humiliating public rejection of Mr. Obama's requested date for an address to a joint session of Congress - the Obama team called Mr. Boehner out." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, John Boehner, Stimulus http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110921123339.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110921114942 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:49:00 -0400 Columnist Brooks, who a colleague termed Obama's favorite journalist, declares himself betrayed by Obama, and says of the president's latest "stimulus" proposal: "This campaign marker, not a jobs bill....This wasn't a speech to get something done. This was the sort of speech that sounded better when Ted Kennedy was delivering it." David Brooks, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110921114942.aspx 20110920022417 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:24:00 -0400 Neil MacFarquhar blames "right-wing" Americans for Palestinian failure at the U.N. "Lopsided votes against Israel are not new to the United Nations. But this time the Palestinians are hoping they can muster enough weighty support from Europe to overcome right-wing domestic constraints in the United States and Israel that have helped stall negotiations for at least 18 months." http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110920022417.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Neil_MacFarquhar.jpg 20110920013406 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:34:00 -0400 In the Times' official welcome to the campaign profile, Deborah Sontag passes along hostile anti-Perry gossip: "Mr. Perry wrote in his book that his great-great-grandfather was county judge and that public service - some here call it a thirst for power and a steady salary - runs in the family." Gail Collins, Gov. Rick Perry, Deborah Sontag, Campaign 2012, Texas, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110920013406.aspx 20110920125205 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:52:00 -0400 A Times lead editorial laments how Americans just don't realize how popular Obama's programs really are: "Leadership Crisis – Americans agree with Mr. Obama on a great deal. Why don't they know it?" Barack Obama, Editorial, Poll, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110920125205.aspx 20110919022839 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:30:00 -0400 Columnist Joe Nocera saves time before the next outbreak: "There is certainty about one thing, though. The next time there is an E. coli outbreak, we'll know who to blame." Joe Nocear, Columnist, Republicans, E. coli, Food Safety, Congress, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110919022839.aspx 20110919015053 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:52:00 -0400 After 32 months in office, who is to blame for Obama's low numbers? Just guess: "The decline in Obama's political fortunes, the Great Disappointment, can be attributed to four main factors: the intractable legacy bequeathed by George W. Bush; Republican resistance amounting to sabotage..." Bill Keller, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Campaign 2012, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110919015053.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110919010452 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:06:00 -0400 Plus, great minds think alike? Two lead stories on consecutive days from different reporters contain an identical paragraph: "The Obama proposal has little chance of becoming law unless Republican lawmakers bend. But by focusing on the wealthiest Americans, the president is sharpening the contrast between Republicans and Democrats with a theme he can carry into his bid for re-election in 2012." Jackie Calmes, Helene Cooper, Warren Buffett, Barack Obama, Taxes, Gaffes, Headlines http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110919010452.aspx 20110916122619 Clay Waters Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:26:00 -0400 In "Free to Die," columnist Paul Krugman claims that the GOP debate crowd "erupted with cheers and shouts of 'Yeah!'" in response to Wolf Blitzer questioning Ron Paul if society should let a hypothetical man die for lack of health insurance. Eric Wemple at the Washington Post actually watched the video and disagreed: "A few jeers? Yes. Heckles? No question. 'Audience' cheers? No way. The voices that can be heard in the video - perhaps two or three of them - don't constitute an 'audience' reaction. There were 1,100 people in the crowd." Paul Krugman, Republican Debate, Ron Paul, Health Insurance, Wolf Blitzer, Campaign 2012, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110916122619.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110915122012 Clay Waters Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:20:00 -0400 Disappointing absolutely no one, except maybe reporter Adam Nagourney: "...there is no plan to mark the 25th anniversary of the Iran-contra scandal, Reagan museum officials said." Adam Nagourney, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110915122012.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20110914022733 Clay Waters Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:27:00 -0400 White House reporter Jackie Calmes praises Obama's latest liberal "stimulus" plan, and warns Republicans on TV: "...if the Republicans are seen as standing in the way of anything, they could be in real trouble if the economy doesn't improve or gets worse. They already got a great deal of the blame for the August debt limit fight. They could lose the House." Jackie Calmes, Binyamin Appelbaum, Barack Obama, Stimulus, Jobs, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110914022733.aspx 20110914015420 Clay Waters Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:54:00 -0400 Book critic Dwight Garner: "Mr. Moore's coming of age as a working-class malcontent is, however, something to behold....It persuades you to take Mr. Moore seriously, and it belongs on a shelf with memoirs by, and books about, nonconformists like Mother Jones, Abbie Hoffman, Phil Ochs, Rachel Carson, Harvey Pekar and even Thomas Paine." Michael Moore, Dwight Garner, Movies, Books, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110914015420.aspx 20110913020102 Clay Waters Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:00:00 -0400 How will new Executive Editor Jill Abramson counteract the personal liberal slant of her reporters? "I sometimes try not only to remind myself but my colleagues that the way we view an issue in New York is not necessarily the way it is viewed in the rest of America." Jill Abramson, Arthur Brisbane, Liberal Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110913020102.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jill-Abramson.jpg 20110913013535 Clay Waters Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:35:00 -0400 Two liberal Times reporters rush to Social Security defense against Gov. Rick Perry's "Ponzi" persecution: "While there are some superficial similarities, it is ultimately a misleading exaggeration to describe Social Security as a Ponzi scheme." Michael Cooper, Nicholas Confessore, Social Security, Campaign 2012, Rick Perry, Ponzi Scheme http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110913013535.aspx 20110913011135 Clay Waters Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:11:00 -0400 Over the sanctimonious headline "The Enlightened Want to Be Taxed," Times editors threaten: "But altruism does not fully explain why members of the global elite are suddenly keen to prevent the deep budget reductions that will occur if governments don't raise more money. They are also moved by what some might call enlightened self-interest. Their walls may be high, but the wealthy live in the same world as the poor and the middle class, who have been walloped by unemployment and cuts to social welfare programs. When Mercedes-Benzes burned in Berlin and riots broke out on London's streets, the rich were watching on TV." Warren Buffett, Taxes, Europe, Car Burning, Editorial http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110913011135.aspx 20110912033125 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:31:00 -0400 The Times' special 9-11 section finds "rising hate crimes" and "antipathy" against Muslims in the U.S....but the "hate crime" rate against Jews is much higher. And an editorial laments the "rise of xenophobia" since 9-11, while Bill Keller suggests the paper got pressured from the left after the start of the Iraq War. 9-11, Anniversary, Bill Keller, Andrea Elliott, Editorial, Iraq War, Muslims, Hate Crimes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110912033125.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/ny-times-september-12.jpg 20110912125235 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:52:00 -0400 "What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons." Paul Krugman, 9-11, George W. Bush, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110912125235.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110912110923 Tim Graham Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:09:00 -0400 In a new book, columnist Thomas Friedman continues to wish for more China-style authoritarian control in America: "We had Governor Ed Rendell, you know, criticizing the NFL for canceling the Philadelphia Eagles-Viking football game in December and saying we're a bunch of wusses. If this were China they would have walked to the game in the snow. and doing calculus along the way. You know." Tom Friedman, Charlie Rose, Communist China http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110912110923.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_rant.JPG 20110909012641 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:26:00 -0400 After committing heroic journalism in the days and weeks after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Times journalists slipped back into partisan liberal patterns, blaming Bush for failing to stop the attacks, comparing bombing Baghdad to the 9-11 terror attacks, even promoting a "Truther" convention. September 11, Terrorism, War on Terror, Anniversary. Baghdad, Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, President's Daily Briefing, Alan Feuer, Truthers http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110909012641.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/ny-times-september-12.jpg 20110909123726 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:37:00 -0400 Mark Landler likes what he heard, even though the markets didn't: "Mixing politically moderate proposals with a punchy tone, President Obama challenged lawmakers on Thursday to 'pass this jobs bill'...To keep the proposals from adding to the swelling federal deficit, Mr. Obama also said he would encourage a more ambitious target for long-term reduction of the deficit....he eschewed his trademark soaring oratory in favor of a plainspoken appeal for action, stiffened by a few sarcastic political jabs." Mark Landler, Barack Obama, Speech, Jobs, Economy, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110909123726.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mark_Landler.JPG 20110908020723 Clay Waters Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:07:00 -0400 Monica Davey in Michigan: "Six states have approved reductions in the length of state unemployment benefits. The notion appalls people like Jeananne Bishop, who has been desperately searching for a job since July 2010 and found herself washing her hair with laundry detergent at one point because she could not afford shampoo." Monica Davey, Michigan, Budget Cuts, Economy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110908020723.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Monica_Davey.JPG 20110908115010 Clay Waters Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:50:00 -0400 Three liberal reporters teamed up to fact-check the Republican debate (and defend President Obama): "The candidates' arguments run into factual hurdles." John Broder, Nicholas Confessore, Jackie Calmes, Campaign 2012, Republicans, Debate, Fact Check, Rick Perry, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110908115010.aspx 20110907030128 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:01:00 -0400 Kevin Sack: "Mr. Perry, by contrast, eschewed direct efforts to expand coverage in Texas and cemented its status as the state with the highest rate of people without insurance....After Mr. Perry's decade in office, Texas now claims the highest uninsured rate, at 26 percent, as well as other distinctions like the lowest rate of prenatal care." Kevin Sack, Health Care, Campaign 2012, Rick Perry, Texas http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110907030128.aspx 20110907011203 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:12:00 -0400 Editorialist Brent Staples carries his trade to the front of the Times Sunday Book Review: "Obama clearly went to Washington with a healthy respect for rational, principled conservatism. He was utterly unprepared for an encounter with rabid conservatives who would risk the economy to destroy his presidency." Brent Staples, Barack Obama, Book Review http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110907011203.aspx 20110907124430 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:44:00 -0400 Jennifer Steinhauer spins a Republican request that Obama address Congress on a different night from the presidential debate as "disrespect" for the president, and played the race card: "There is the persistent and deeply uncomfortable question of race. Many African-Americans, including black lawmakers, and even white Democrats, have complained that some of the disrespect for Mr. Obama stems from distaste among some whites at the idea of seeing a black man in the Oval Office." Jennifer Steinhauer, Barack Obama, Republicans, Congress, Racism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110907124430.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20110906035116 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:51:00 -0400 Obama, still not to blame: "The president's Labor Day addresses trace the stubbornness of the crisis he inherited....a Democratic-controlled Congress had passed his two-year, $800 billion stimulus program of tax cuts and spending. 'It's working,' Mr. Obama said then. Most economists agreed, though many have since concluded that the package was not forceful enough to counter a recession...." Jackie Calmes, Jimmy Hoffa, Bias by Omission, Unions, Unemployment, Economy, Stimulus http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110906035116.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110906032038 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:20:00 -0400 Reporter Michael Shear takes it upon himself to defend liberal programs: "When it comes to health care, Mr. Perry writes that President Obama's legislation on the subject was 'the closest this country has ever come to outright socialism,' largely ignoring the fact that Mr. Obama's plan relies heavily on existing private insurance companies, doctors and drug manufacturers." Michael Shear, Rick Perry, Campaign 2012, Obamacare, Social Security http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110906032038.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20110906031228 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:12:00 -0400 Reporter Jackie Calmes, still cheerleading for Obama's "economic stimulus" plan: "Nonpartisan analysts and the Congressional Budget Office have credited the first stimulus package with helping to end the recession and keep unemployment from growing even higher than it did....economists began to fret that the austerity measures in both the United States and Europe threatened to push the world into another recession." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, Economy, Stimulus http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110906031228.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110902023133 Ken Shepherd Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:30:00 -0400 Speaker John Boehner politely suggesting that President Obama could be accommodated to give an address to a joint session of Congress a day later than the date he originally requested is "contemptuous," "cynical" and "craven" to the New York Times editorial board. John Boehner, Barack Obama, Congress, jobs, House of Representatives, New York Times, bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110902023133.aspx 20110902122703 Ken Shepherd Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:26:00 -0400 In the September 2 "Weekend Arts" section, Times film critic Stephen Holden hailed an R-rated flick about friends hosting an orgy as a "friendly, ramshackle comedy" while panning a G-rated drama about a young golfer's mentorship as a "stultifying hybrid of instruction film and Christian sermon" that "swoons into its own solemn sanctimony." Stephen Holden, orgy, golf, New York Times, movie review, film critic, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110902122703.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/oldfashionedorgy.JPG 20110901012022 Ken Shepherd Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:20:00 -0400 The September 1 Times portrayed House Speaker John Boehner's request that President Obama delay his speech to Congress by a day as an "unprecedented" refusal of a presidential request and evidence of poisonous partisanship in Washington, D.C. John Boehner, Barack Obama, Helene Cooper, Jackie Calmes, Congress, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110901012022.aspx 20110901115354 Ken Shepherd Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:52:00 -0400 Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) recently suggested Tea Party conservatives were the sort of people who would like to lynch blacks. In light of that comment, the CBC's lone Republican is mulling over resigning from the caucus, a move the Times described as him "Taking Issue With Criticism." Jennifer Steinhauer, Allen West, Andre Carson http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110901115354.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/allenwest.JPG 20110831021440 Clay Waters Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:14:00 -0400 Welcome to the club. Jeremy Peters reports: "Preparing journalists to cover the presidential campaign these days is also an exercise in indiscretion management. In the new dynamic of campaigns, reporters themselves are targets both of political strategists as well as other journalists and bloggers....Some reporters have even found their personal e-mails leaked and used against them. David Weigel, now a columnist for Slate, was pressured into leaving his job at The Washington Post last year after he attacked conservatives in private messages that found their way to a right-leaning Web site, The Daily Caller." Jeremy Peters, Media, Campaign 2012, James O'Keefe, Bloggers, Journalists, David Weigel http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110831021440.aspx 20110831012428 Clay Waters Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:24:00 -0400 In reporter Carl Hulse's view, "independent" (i.e. socialist) Sen. Bernie Sanders and White House spokesman Jay Carney are advancing sensible views on disaster relief to counteract "unsettling" ideas about actually offsetting the cost from "Conservative Republicans." Carl Hulse, Disaster Relief, Labeling Bias, Hurricane Irene, National Debt, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110831012428.aspx 20110831010317 Clay Waters Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:03:00 -0400 Reporter Julia Werdigier suggests higher taxes would have stopped the riots in Europe. "Some analysts said the calls for greater sacrifice from Europe's wealthy might have sprung from growing concern that austerity measures in Europe were leading to social unrest, after protests in Greece and Spain and images of burning police cars and shops in the streets of London." Julia Werdigier, Warren Buffett, Taxes, Europe, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110831010317.aspx 20110830021754 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:17:00 -0400 Elisabeth Rosenthal says let them sweat, in the name of the planet: "As more people in more countries come to rely on air-conditioning, the idea of thermal comfort may need to be rethought to curb the growth in greenhouse gas emissions. Ten years ago, when I lived in Beijing, air-conditioning was a rare luxury. On a visit there this month, I saw air-conditioners blasting even in rural restaurants. If hundreds of millions people in China and India expect to be cooled to our frigid standard of 71.6 degrees all the time, the environmental impact might be far less comfortable." Elisabeth Rosenthal, Environment, Global Warming, Air Conditioning, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110830021754.aspx 20110830013651 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:36:00 -0400 Today Libya, tomorrow Syria? Times reporters railed against the Iraq War, but are copacetic about possible Obama intervention in Syria: "But the very fact that the administration has joined with the same allies that it banded with on Libya to call for Mr. Assad to go and to impose penalties on his regime could take the United States one step closer to applying the Libya model toward Syria." Helene Cooper, Steven Lee Myers, Barack Obama, Libya, Syria, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110830013651.aspx 20110829031144 Clay Waters Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:11:00 -0400 Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet gets huffy with Rep. Darrell Issa for demanding a retraction of a hostile story by reporter Eric Lichtblau: "I'd like to say that it is troubling to see your office using the letterhead and imprimatur of a powerful congressional committee to wage personal and meritless attacks on a reporter and a news organization." Darrell Issa, Eric Lichtblau, Corrections, Dean Baquet, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110829031144.aspx 20110829121609 Clay Waters Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:16:00 -0400 The Times wonders why "provocative civil rights activist" Al Sharpton has been so quiet when it comes to the rape charges filed against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but virtually ignores his participation in the Tawana Brawley rape case, which turned out to be a hoax. Al Sharpton, Bias by Omission, N.R. Kleinfield, Tawana Brawley, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110829121609.aspx 20110829112828 Clay Waters Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:28:00 -0400 Of course: "The scale of Hurricane Irene, which could cause more extensive damage along the Eastern Seaboard than any storm in decades, is reviving an old question: are hurricanes getting worse because of human-induced climate change? The short answer from scientists is that they are still trying to figure it out. But many of them do believe that hurricanes will get more intense as the planet warms, and they see large hurricanes like Irene as a harbinger." Justin Gillis, Hurricane Irene, Environment, Climate Change http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110829112828.aspx 20110826025238 Clay Waters Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:52:00 -0400 Plus: Several Times columnists compare Tea Party members and congressional conservatives to terrorists and the "psychological upside" of Soviet repression. Tea Party, Terrorism, Mark Landler, James Traub, Roger Cohen, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Mark Landler http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110826025238.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Timeswatch_thumb_for_NB.jpg 20110826022413 Clay Waters Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:24:00 -0400 The answer is simple: He's the kind of businessmen that liberals like - who don't think they are paying enough money in taxes. Warren Buffett, Nelson Schwartz, Taxes, Strange New Respect, Business http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110826022413.aspx 20110826010344 Clay Waters Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:03:00 -0400 Executive Editor Bill Keller thinks the Times eventually did a good job covering Obama's Rev. Wright problem: "Yes, Dems should be asked about their faith (and influences) too. We were late to Rev. Wright in '08, but we got there, and did it well." We beg to differ. Bill Keller, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Gaffes, Racism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110826010344.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110825015904 Clay Waters Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:59:00 -0400 Bill Keller questions the faith of top Republican candidates, after ignoring Obama's preacher problem during the 2008 campaign. "Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are Mormons, a faith that many conservative Christians have been taught is a 'cult' and that many others think is just weird....Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum are all affiliated with fervid subsets of evangelical Christianity, which has raised concerns about their respect for the separation of church and state, not to mention the separation of fact and fiction....I honestly don't care if Mitt Romney wears Mormon undergarments beneath his Gap skinny jeans, or if he believes that the stories of ancient American prophets were engraved on gold tablets and buried in upstate New York, or that Mormonism's founding prophet practiced polygamy (which was disavowed by the church in 1890). Every faith has its baggage, and every faith holds beliefs that will seem bizarre to outsiders. I grew up believing that a priest could turn a bread wafer into the actual flesh of Christ." Bill Keller, Religion, Campaign 2012, Barack Obama, Campaign 2008, Double Standards, Christianity, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110825015904.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110825112450 Clay Waters Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:25:00 -0400 The paper's former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse isn't fond of the conservative Supreme Court's expansive view of the First Amendment: "But it's the dissenting opinion of the Burger court's most conservative member that most clearly illuminates the dangerous path the current conservative majority is pursuing." Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court, Free Speech, Constitution http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110825112450.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/LindaGreenhousePBS.jpg 20110825102517 Clay Waters Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:25:00 -0400 Ashley Parker on Mitt Romney's "corporations are people": "Some called the remark tone deaf, saying it fed into the perception of him as an out-of-touch millionaire. But on the campaign trail in Keene, N.H., Mr. Romney showed no signs of distancing himself from the remarks." Ashley Parker, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110825102517.aspx 20110824015533 Clay Waters Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:55:00 -0400 Paul Krugman gets angry over a fake quote, but some of the things he has actually said about economic growth are just as bad. Three days after 9-11 he wrote that one of the possible "favorable effects" from the attacks were a "sudden" need for "some new office buildings." Paul Krugman, Fake Quote, Broken Window Fallacy, Economy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110824015533.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110824010741 Clay Waters Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:07:00 -0400 French President Sarkozy hassling the poor Socialist Party with his "obsession" with balanced budgets and deficit reduction: "The Socialists...have some sensible arguments, but as often in politics, a simple idea often trumps a complicated one. The Socialists recognize the need for fiscal discipline." Steven Erlanger, Nicholas Sarkozy, France, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110824010741.aspx 20110824124016 Clay Waters Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:40:00 -0400 The vice president's remarks in China on that country's one-child policy, which have led to forced abortions and sterilizations, have appeared only at nytimes.com: "You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand - I'm not second-guessing - of one child per family. The result being that you're in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable." Joe Biden, China, One-Child Policy, Abortion, Bias by Omission, Mitt romney, Duoble Standards, Ashley Parker, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110824124016.aspx 20110823125551 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:55:00 -0400 What's "awkward" about employing construction workers in a recession? "Mitt Romney has never claimed to be a middle-class man of the people. But the news that he is planning to quadruple the size of his $12 million oceanfront property in the La Jolla section of San Diego, first reported by The San Diego Union-Tribune on Saturday evening, came at a particularly awkward time." Ashley Parker, Mitt Romney, Gaffes, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110823125551.aspx 20110823122425 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:24:00 -0400 Soft-on-illegal-immigration reporter Julia Preston revisits a happy Manuel Guerra, who led a four-person march to Washington in 2010 that somehow was worth a Preston story in the Times (while massive Tea Party protests were being ignored by the Times). Julia Preston, Illegal Immigration, Barack Obama, Deportation http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110823122425.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Julia_Preston.jpg 20110822022609 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:26:00 -0400 The Times asks of the March riots in London protesting reductions in government education spending: "What do you wear when protest and mayhem rock your world?" T Magazine, Kabir Chibber, London, Riots, Fashion, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110822022609.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/riots.jpg 20110822011506 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:15:00 -0400 "...there are signs that the same Republicans see a need to show, at least publicly, a desire to play well with others....critics dismiss the moves as desperate attempts to shore up sinking popularity ratings or disingenuous, tardy strategies to appear agreeable after already ramming through their agendas." Monica Davey, Gov. Scott Walker, Gov John Kasich, Wisconsin, Ohio, Unions, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110822011506.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Monica_Davey.JPG 20110822122654 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:27:00 -0400 Are headline writers for the Sunday New York Times suffering some summer creative doldrums? Gaffes, Photos, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110822122654.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/SundayStyles1.jpg 20110819033749 Clay Waters Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:37:00 -0400 Michael Shear faulted moderate Republican candidate Jon Huntsman for not sufficiently "standing apart from the pack" of conservative presidential candidates by calling for higher taxes - or in Shear's words, "revenue increases." Michael Shear, Jon Huntsman, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110819033749.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20110819024720 Clay Waters Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:47:00 -0400 Kirk Johnson sees hope for "centrists" like Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana: "But other factors, engrained into Montana's political history and geography, could also push the contest more toward the middle and away from the blood-fest of extremes that marked the 2010 midterm elections, when moderates, especially among Republicans, fell under a surge of Tea Party-backed candidates." Kirk Johnson, Montana, Sen. Jon Tester, Campaign 2012, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110819024720.aspx 20110818012654 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:27:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes insists on the success of Obama's "stimulus" package: "...contrary to Republicans' claims, economists generally judged his 2009-10 stimulus program to have helped, but to have been insufficient to overcome the deep downturn." She also says accusing Obama of "class warfare" is "Republican code for Mr. Obama's proposed tax increases on high incomes." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, Economy, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110818012654.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110818112626 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:26:00 -0400 Ashley Parker's report on Rick Perry featured six paragraphs on a global warming discussion between Perry and N.H. citizen Jim Rubens, described by Parker as a “a Republican activist and high-tech investor from Etna." But the Times left out the fact that Rubens is also a consultant with the left-wing environmental group Union of Concerned Scientists. Ashley Parker, Rick Perry, Campaign 2012, Bias by Omission, Environment, Global Warming, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110818112626.aspx 20110818095245 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:52:00 -0400 John Broder: "Opposition to regulation and skepticism about climate change have become tenets of Republican orthodoxy...But while attacks on the E.P.A., climate-change science and environmental regulation more broadly are surefire applause lines with many Republican primary audiences, these views may prove a liability in the general election, pollsters and analysts say." John Broder, Environment, EPA, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110818095245.aspx 20110817032109 Clay Waters Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:21:00 -0400 Reporter Clifford Krauss also pondered that if "Perry were to win the Republican nomination, he would face critics, among them Democrats, who have long complained that the state's economic health has come at a steep a price: a long-term hollowing out of the state's prospects because of deep cuts to education spending, low rates of investment in research and development, and a disparity in the job market that confines many blacks and Hispanics to minimum-wage jobs without health insurance." Clifford Krauss, Rick Perry, Campaign 2012, Texas, Economy, Paul Krugman, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110817032109.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Perry.jpg 20110817015034 Clay Waters Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:50:00 -0400 "[Tim] Pawlenty is one of several Republican candidates who have retreated from previous positions acknowledging the science of climate change, and a need to address it." ClimateWire, Evan Lehmann, Climate Change, Cap and Trade, Campaign 2012, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110817015034.aspx 20110817011148 Clay Waters Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:11:00 -0400 Wishful thinking by reporter David Kocieniewski: "But with the prospect of severe spending cuts and another round of bitter deficit negotiations in Washington, proposals like [Warren] Buffett's call to raise taxes on the affluent are likely to become an increasingly urgent part of the discussion." David Kocieniewski, Warren Buffett, Taxes, Op-ed http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110817011148.aspx 20110816033335 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:33:00 -0400 Campbell Robertson: "On a sofa in the hallway of his office here, Mitchell Williams, the pastor of First United Methodist Church, announced that he was going to break the law. He is not the only church leader making such a declaration these days....To some church leaders - who say they will not be able to give people rides, invite them to worship services or perform marriages and baptisms - the law essentially criminalizes basic parts of Christian ministry." Campbell Robertson, Illegal Immigration, Alabama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110816033335.aspx 20110816021913 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:19:00 -0400 White House reporter Jackie Calmes: "The boasts of Congressional Republicans about their cost-cutting victories are ringing hollow to some well-known economists, financial analysts and corporate leaders, including some Republicans, who are expressing increasing alarm over Washington's new austerity and antitax orthodoxy." Mickey Kaus discerned "the familiar process of cocooning...the paper of record has mistaken the views of its editorial board for the views of voters." Jackie Calmes, Economy, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110816021913.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110816094347 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:43:00 -0400 Binyamin Appelbaum has the solution to economic malaise - even more federal spending: "And for governments, the real problem is that there's this tremendous political pressure to get smaller, and everything we know about economics tells us that they should be doing the opposite, they should be getting bigger right now...I could get you 100 economists, and 95 of them would tell you the same thing, which is that right now is a really good time for the government to go out and borrow money, it's as cheap as it's ever been to borrow money, invest it in infrastructure, invest it in things that will pay off in the long run, and help out the economy." Binyamin Appelbaum, Podcast, Spending, Economy, Sam Roberts, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110816094347.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Appelbaum.jpg 20110815035605 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:56:00 -0400 The paper's Public Editor Arthur Brisbane did not mention that columnist Joe Nocera is far from the only Times columnist to liken Tea Party supporters or conservative congressmen to terrorists. Arthur Brisbane, Joe Nocera, Tea Party, Terrorism, Apology, Public Editor http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110815035605.aspx 20110815024449 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:44:00 -0400 Reporter Ravi Somaiya quickly got to the root of the London riots: "Economic malaise and cuts in spending and services instituted by the Conservative-led government have been recurring flashpoints for months....As the budget cuts take hold, risk of unemployment increases and social measures like youth projects are sacrificed, Mr. Beech said, and 'all logic says there will be an increase in antisocial behavior.'" Ravi Somaiya, London, Riots, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110815024449.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Riots.jpg 20110813071246 Tim Graham Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:02:00 -0400 MSNBC delights in the formerly "objective" national reporter slamming the Texas governor as a menacing figure governing an ignorant redneck backwater. Timothy Egan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110813071246.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/timegan.jpg 20110812052532 Tim Graham Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:19:00 -0400 Reporter Ethan Bronner couldn't define anyone as left-leaning or find anyone who would question whether the protests are a political campaign. Benjamin Netanyahu, Ethan Bronner, Daniel Doron http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110812052532.aspx 20110812103736 Tim Graham Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:30:00 -0400 Film critic Stephen Holden approves of the concert film's aggressively pro-gay message (like the "It Gets Better" videos), but is still snobbish enough to compare it to Disney's "High School Musical." Stephen Holden, Movies, Glee http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110812103736.aspx 20110811044446 Tim Graham Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:27:00 -0400 While Robert Pear found Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman were "influential Democrats" and not "liberal," several new Republican members of the budget-limiting super committee are tagged as "among the most conservative members of Congress." John Kerry, Jeb Hensarling, Jon Kyl, Pat Toomey http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110811044446.aspx 20110811042637 Tim Graham Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:14:00 -0400 The newspaper said it's "long overdue" to require sex education for middle school and high school students, and offered no objection to Planned Parenthood teaching the lessons. Sex education, abortion, Planned Parenthood http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110811042637.aspx 20110810043142 Tim Graham Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:31:00 -0400 As Alec Baldwin proclaims his interest in running for Mayor of New York some time after 2013, a young Times reporter can't describe him as either ultraliberal or uncivil. After all, she worked for Howard Dean. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110810043142.aspx 20110809080810 Brent Baker Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:02:00 -0400 Recalling how he was raised in “heavily Democratic Providence, R.I.,” New York Times columnist Joe Nocera revealed: “It wasn't until I moved to Washington after college that I got to know any Republicans. Not until I was nearing 30, and living in Texas, did I see how conservative most of the country truly is.” Joe Nocera, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110809080810.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MorningJoe-Nocera-2011-08-09-240.jpg 20110809053857 Tim Graham Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:30:00 -0400 Liberals are challenging the Obama administration from the left, asserting a legal right of Medicaid recipients to sue the government for greater health benefits. But Robert Pear called no one a "liberal," and consulted no Republicans or conservatives. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110809053857.aspx 20110809043334 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:08:00 -0400 The Times and religion reporter Laurie Goodstein promoted radical-left activist Father Roy Bourgeois as his Catholic religious order dismissed him for defiance of church teaching. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110809043334.aspx 20110808050929 Tim Graham Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:54:00 -0400 Media columnist David Carr wrote a broad conspiracy theory about the dangerous "soft power" of Murdoch Inc. with little evidence and lots of partisan insinuation. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110808050929.aspx 20110808025255 Tim Graham Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:28:00 -0400 Reporter Damien Cave finds communist Cuba is recovering from a bad case of stuffiness. Its censorship of rock music only defined it as a "very serious place," not a prison. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110808025255.aspx 20110805022308 Scott Whitlock Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:16:00 -0400 The New York Times on Friday downplayed results in its own poll that found 44 percent of respondents think the cuts in the debt deal didn't go far enough, versus only 15 percent who said "too far." In an article starting on the front page, writers Michael Cooper and Megan Thee-Brenan didn't mention this fact until the ninth paragraph of page A-14. New York Times, Poll, Deficit,, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110805022308.aspx 20110804032256 Scott Whitlock Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:02:00 -0400 New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Wednesday continued to ramp up the newspaper's vitriolic attacks against Tea Party conservatives, bizarrely describing them as "cannibals" "zombies" and "vampires." New York Times, Tea Party, Maureen Dowd, Conservatives,, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110804032256.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/dowd-ts-190.jpg 20110804124902 Ken Shepherd Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:49:00 -0400 Although it's Senate Democrats who are refusing to debate and vote on a House plan to fund the Federal Aviation Administration through September 16, the New York Times editorial board today followed the lead of Democrats and MSNBC in slamming Republicans as “hostage” takers. FAA, Democrats, hostages, Harry Reid, funding, Congress, editorial http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110804124902.aspx 20110803035335 Ken Shepherd Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:53:00 -0400 Leave it to the Times to worry about income disparity and gentrification… in Cuba. In his August 3 “Cubans Set for Big Change: Right to Buy Homes,” correspondent Damien Cave reported on how Cubans will finally be able – albeit doubtless with numerous restrictions – to own their own houses come legislative changes expected to be enacted later this year. Damien Cave, Cuba, private property, housing, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110803035335.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/cave_damien.jpg 20110803121951 Ken Shepherd Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:19:00 -0400 An arguably unconstitutional effort in San Francisco at regulating the speech of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers was portrayed by Times reporter Jesse McKinley as an effort to “stem… misleading advertising." abortion, pro-choice, NARAL, crisis pregnancy centers http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110803121951.aspx 20110803115903 Scott Whitlock Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:48:00 -0400 New York Times columnist Joe Nocera on Tuesday viciously attacked the Tea Party as "terrorists" who had a "suicide vests" during the debt ceiling debate. Continuing the paper's habit of comparing congressional Republicans to murderers, Nocera derided, "These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people." New York Times, Joe Nocera, Tea Party, Republicans,, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110803115903.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Joe_Nocera.jpg 20110802054002 Ken Shepherd Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:39:00 -0400 New York Times food writer and junk food sin-tax advocate Mark Bittman took to the August 2 edition of MSNBC's “Dylan Ratigan” show as part of his promotional tour for “Bad Food? Tax It.” He found a receptive, uncritical audience in the former CNBC business reporter. Mark Bittman, Dylan Ratigan, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias, taxes, subsidies, health, health care, diabetes, MSNBC http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110802054002.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/markbittman_240_180.jpg 20110802010029 Scott Whitlock Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:48:00 -0400 New York Times writer Robin Pogrebin on Tuesday highlighted cuts to arts funding by the states and the negative effect it will have on replicas of the largest ball of twine. The headline blared, "Arts Outposts Stung by Cuts in State Aid." New York Times, Arts, Kansas, New York, Wall Street, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110802010029.aspx 20110801052934 Ken Shepherd Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:29:00 -0400 Better late than never, perhaps, but in Sunday's paper the Times noted that “Lowering Nation's Credit Rating May Have Little Effect, Economists Suggest.” The article, by Binyamin Appelbaum article, was buried on page A14 in the July 31 edition. Binyamin Appelbaum, debt ceiling, Congress, ratings agencies, Wall Street, national debt, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110801052934.aspx 20110801023000 Ken Shepherd Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:30:00 -0400 In a front-page “news analysis” piece this morning, Times national political correspondent Jeff Zeleny pronounced that “After [a] Protracted Fight, Both Sides Emerge Bruised.” Yet Zeleny's analysis was chock full of the typical liberal bias slant that puffs up President Obama, slams the Tea Party as “intractable” and ignores the partisanship of liberal Senate members, particularly Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Jeff Zeleny, debt ceiling, federal government, Congress, national debt, Harry Reid, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110801023000.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/protractedfight_main.jpg 20110729050013 Ken Shepherd Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:59:00 -0400 In his July 28 front page article, Times staffer Bill Vlasic hailed the "solidarity" of automakers with the Obama administration in developing stringent new fuel economy standards. He downplayed concerns about the cost of regulation and omitted any concerns about the tradeoff between higher fuel economy and auto safety. auto industry, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110729050013.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/carmakersstrict_240_180.jpg 20110729042657 Scott Whitlock Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:16:00 -0400 Liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Friday denounced the "centrist cop-out" of balance. Krugman specifically singled out the Associated Press for not exclusively blaming the ongoing debt ceiling impasse on the Republican Party. Complaining about too much fairness, the author derided his journalistic colleagues, "The problem with American politics right now is Republican extremism, and if you're not willing to say that, you're helping make that problem worse." Paul Krugman, New York Times, Media Bias,, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110729042657.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110729022059 Scott Whitlock Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:11:00 -0400 The New York Times' lead story on the debt ceiling debate, Friday, for the second time in three days, featured no liberal labels, but managed to tag "conservatives" five times. This now brings the ideological scorecard (for that time period) to 20 conservative identifications and just one for liberals. The Times' Carl Hulse only slightly varied his description of the House Republicans. He insisted that Speaker John Boehner tried to "pressure reluctant conservatives into backing their plan." New York Times, Congress, Republicand, Debt Ceiling, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110729022059.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20110728121217 Clay Waters Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:12:00 -0400 Former Times reporter Peter Goodman on Monday: "The same Republicans who have so eagerly prosecuted the war on terror, running up huge deficits in the process, are now behaving like the enemies on which they have squandered so much blood and treasure: They are acting like terrorists. Yes, terrorists." Peter Goodman, Debt Ceiling, Terrorists, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110728121217.aspx 20110727022756 Clay Waters Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:27:00 -0400 David Leonhardt pens his last economics column before becoming Washington bureau chief, and encapsulates his liberal conventional wisdom: "We know that the federal government has promised more benefits than it can currently afford. The only way out of this problem involves some combination of tax increases and cuts to Medicare, Social Security and the military. Anyone who won't get specific about which ones they favor is not a fiscal conservative. David Leonhardt, Taxes, Global Warming, Obama-care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110727022756.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Leonhardt.jpg 20110727013749 Clay Waters Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:37:00 -0400 Thomas Friedman: "[The Tea Party] is so lacking in any aspiration for American greatness, so dominated by the narrowest visions for our country and so ignorant of the fact that it was not tax cuts that made America great but our unique public-private partnerships across the generations. If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the G.O.P. on a suicide mission." Thomas Friedman, Terrorism, Republicans, Debt Ceiling, Nicholas Kristof, Hezbollah, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110727013749.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_rant.JPG 20110727125621 Clay Waters Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:56:00 -0400 The last two Times lead stories on the debt ceiling debate have featured 11 "conservative" labels and zero "liberal" ones. Carl Hulse, Jennifer Steinhauer, Debt Ceiling, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110727125621.aspx 20110726032046 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:20:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes and Carl Hulse find lots of "conservatives" but zero liberals in their lead story Tuesday. Carl Hulse, Jackie Calmes, Labeling Bias, Debt Ceiling http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110726032046.aspx 20110726025535 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:55:00 -0400 "Recession Study Finds Hispanics Are Hit Hardest – Sharp Wealth Decline - Group's Median Level Fell 66% in 4 Years – Blacks Hit, Too." But why were Asians left out of the headline? Their median wealth actually fell further than did blacks. Headlines, Gaffes, Mort Sahl, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110726025535.aspx 20110726010311 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:03:00 -0400 Columnist Nicholas Kristof: "Well, wake up to the national security threat. Only it's not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists....the biggest threat to America's national security this summer doesn't come from China, Iran or any other foreign power. It comes from budget machinations, and budget maniacs, at home....So let's remember not only the national security risks posed by Iran and Al Qaeda. Let's also focus on the risks, however unintentional, from domestic zealots." Nicholas Kristof, War on Terror, Tea Party, Al Qaeda http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110726010311.aspx 20110726123956 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:39:00 -0400 Mark Bittman: "That 'other force' should be the federal government, fulfilling its role as an agent of the public good and establishing a bold national fix....public health is the role of the government, and our diet is right up there with any other public responsibility you can name, from water treatment to mass transit." Mark Bittman, Food, Soda Taxes, Health http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110726123956.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mark_Bittman.JPG 20110725030624 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:06:00 -0400 Roger Cohen smears Sarah Palin, shows his ignorance: "When Jared Loughner shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords this year in Tuscon [sic], Arizona - after Sarah Palin placed rifle sights over Giffords' constituency and Giffords herself predicted that -there are consequences to that' - the right went into overdrive to portray Loughner as a schizophrenic loner whose crazed universe owed nothing to those fanning hatred under the slogan of 'Take America Back.' (That non-specific taking-back would of course be from Muslims and the likes of the liberal and Jewish Giffords.)" Does Howard Dean know he was spouting ethnic hatred during his 2004 campaign? Roger Cohen, Sarah Palin, Terrorism, Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, Newt Gingrich, Peter King, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110725030624.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Roger_Cohen.jpg 20110725115614 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:56:00 -0400 Scott Shane: "...the mass killings in Norway, with their echo of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by an antigovernment militant, have focused new attention around the world on the subculture of anti-Muslim bloggers and right-wing activists and renewed a debate over the focus of counterterrorism efforts." Scott Shane, Norway, Terrorism, Anders Behring Breivik, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110725115614.aspx 20110725110649 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:06:00 -0400 While the Times showed no reluctance to identify the lone gunman in the Norway attacks as a "Christian extremist" in a front-page headline and hinted at more danger from "right-wing extremists" in Europe, the paper was reluctant to identify Islam after the deadly July 7, 2005 attacks by Muslim terrorists in London. Instead the Times treated the attacks as Tony Blair's "bitter harvest" for following President George W. Bush into Iraq. Norway, Terrorism, Double Standards, Labeling Bias, London Bombing, Anders Behring Breivik, Unabomber, Timothy McVeigh, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110725110649.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Norway.jpg 20110722125627 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:56:00 -0400 Leonhardt, the Times' chief economics writer, has insisted on "the upside of paying more taxes' and has twice claimed the big-spending Obama was in fact a "fiscal conservative." Three months ago he wrote that "finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States." David Leonhardt, Promotion, Economics, Taxes, Washington Bureau Chief http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110722125627.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Leonhardt.jpg 20110722121659 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:16:00 -0400 Art critic Holland Cotter found Soviet-style tyranny in the free market: "Free-market capitalism brought its suppressions and exclusions, as artists discovered. Among other things, some felt, it undermined the purpose and value of art." Holland Cotter, Communism, Soviet Union, Headlines, Ostalgia, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110722121659.aspx 20110721010841 Clay Waters Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:08:00 -0400 Reporter Brian Stelter doesn't tip his readers off on the far-left background of the Murdoch attackers at Free Press, or its funding by George Soros: "But media reform groups like Free Press, which advocates for more diversity in media ownership, say their interest extends far beyond any single investigation....Groups like Free Press say the opposite - that such combinations reduce the country's journalistic corps and decrease the diversity of voices in print and on the air." Brian Stelter, Media, Rupert Murdoch, News of the World, Free Press, Labeling Bias, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110721010841.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Brian_Stelter_2011.JPG 20110720021647 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:16:00 -0400 Here we go again; David Leonhardt praises Obama the "fiscal conservative." "He takes on the moderate role of fiscal conservative, looking to cut spending and increase taxes on the affluent." David Leonhardt, Barack Obama, Fiscal Conservative, Budget Cuts, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110720021647.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/DavidLeonhardt.jpg 20110720014647 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:46:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes and Jennifer Steinhauer celebrate a "four-page outline" from a group of senators as a victory for Obama: "Financial markets rallied on the news. And with time running out before the deadline of Aug. 2 to raise the government's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, Mr. Obama's quick embrace of the plan left House Republicans at greater risk of being politically isolated on the issue if they continue to rule out any compromise that includes higher tax revenues." Jackie Calmes, Jennifer Steinhauer, Barack Obama, Budget, Debt Ceiling, Bias by Omission, Spending Cuts http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110720014647.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110720123455 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:34:00 -0400 Times leads the way with its Bachmann "migraine" coverage, linking migraines to depression and other electorally damaging ailments: "Migraines are three times more common among women than men, the foundation says, adding that those who get the headaches are 'more likely' to have depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, other pain conditions and fatigue." Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Michele Bachmann, Migraines, Depression http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110720123455.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20110719013536 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:35:00 -0400 White House reporter Mark Landler takes sides, shares the president's frustration with Republicans: "And I think the frustration the president has, is, 'Look, I've come three-quarters the way to your position, and you're not willing to give me that last 25 percent that I can use to say to Democrats there is something in this for you.' So I think the intransigence of the Republicans is really beginning to wear on him and just strikes him as more and more unreasonable." Mark Landler, Debt Ceiling, Barack Obama, Spending Cuts, Podcast, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110719013536.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mark_Landler.JPG 20110719125419 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:54:00 -0400 Joe Nocera devotes two columns to piling on Rupert Murdoch and his American media properties: "The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified....Rupert Murdoch, despite giving us Homer Simpson, generally has not been a force for good over the course of his long career. His Bill O'Reilly-ed, Glenn Beck-ed Fox News has done a great deal to coarsen the political discourse...." Joe Nocera, Fox News, Rupert Murdoch http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110719125419.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Joe_Nocera.jpg 20110719110700 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:06:00 -0400 The Times, on top of the big stories. Lead sentence to its August 10, 2010 report vindicating the Atlanta school system: "The Atlanta public school system was substantially vindicated Monday when the results of an independent investigation into cheating on standardized tests were released." Now that the truth is out on "the biggest cheating scandal" ever, education columnist Michael Winerip: "Last summer a supposedly Blue Ribbon Commission, headed by a businessman volunteering his time, produced yet another flimsy report...." Shaila Dewan, Michael Winerip, Education, Atlanta, Cheating, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110719110700.aspx 20110718022352 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:23:00 -0400 Magazine writer James Traub on poor, mistreated John Kerry: "The last time most Americans saw John Kerry, he was tying himself in knots trying to rebut the charge that he was for the war in Iraq before he was against it. That was unfair, like a great deal that happened during the 2004 campaign, but politics are unfair. Kerry seemed to be the latest in a long line of decent, serious, honorable Democratic presidential candidates cut to ribbons by the Republican attack machine and bested by G.O.P. contenders whom voters would much rather have a beer with...." James Traub, John Kerry, Afghanistan, Magazine, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110718022352.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/James_Traub_Parker_Spitzer.JPG 20110718012423 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:24:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg traveled to Minnesota to pile on the Bachmanns days after a hidden-camera investigation ran on two networks: "Yet her position has also become a distraction for her campaign, drawing critics and subjecting her family to the kind of scrutiny once reserved for the relatives of nominees. It has exposed a longstanding rift between the congresswoman and her stepsister, who is a lesbian. It has also raised questions about whether her husband, Marcus, who runs two Christian counseling centers, practices 'reparative therapy,' or gay-to-straight counseling, derided by critics as an effort to 'pray away the gay.'" Michele Bachmann, Gay Therapy, Clinic, Hidden-Camera, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110718012423.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20110718114357 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:43:00 -0400 Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane concluded of Ian Urbina's controversial front-page Sunday story on natural gas: "...such a pointed article needed more convincing substantiation, more space for a reasoned explanation of the other side and more clarity about its focus....the article went out on a limb, lacked an in-depth dissenting view in the text and should have made clear that shale gas had boomed." Arthur Brisbane, Ian Urbina, Public Editor, Natural Gas, Fracking, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110718114357.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ian_Urbina.jpg 20110715015005 Clay Waters Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:50:00 -0400 Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explains it all: "A number of commentators seem shocked at how unreasonable Republicans are being. 'Has the G.O.P. gone insane?' they ask. Why, yes, it has." Paul Krugman http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110715015005.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110715010630 Clay Waters Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:06:00 -0400 Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse crowns new liberal Justice Elena Kagan winner of the Supreme Court's just-concluded term, a "distinctive voice" who still "has light years to go before catching up to Antonin Scalia" as far as being "mean-spirited" and "immature." Linda Greenhouse, Elena Kagan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110715010630.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/LindaGreenhousePBS.jpg 20110715110423 Clay Waters Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:03:00 -0400 Former reporter Timothy Egan sleazily likens Republican "anarchists" in Congress to the violent leftist mob who rampaged through Seattle in 1999: "The loafers may want to retreat to their wine cellars until this thing blows over. A renegade wing of their party is lighting fires and throwing rocks (metaphorically, of course!). Once they got a taste of smoke in their nostrils, the anarchists realized they could smash the place up, maybe even burn it down, and no one would stop them." Timothy Egan, Debt Ceiling, Republicans, Anarchists, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110715110423.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TimothyEgan.jpg 20110715102310 Clay Waters Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:24:00 -0400 Reporter Jackie Calmes hits conservatives for an outdated and "problematic" "starve-the-beast" governing philosophy, and wonders why Obama isn't getting credit for his abrupt, politically motivated budget-cutting conversion: "Almost lost in the tax debate with Republicans is how much Mr. Obama has conceded to them this year on spending cuts, including for those entitlement programs Democrats favor." Jackie Calmes, Budget, Debt Ceiling, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110715102310.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110714023204 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:32:00 -0400 "The White House on Wednesday declined to challenge an account in a new book that suggests that President Obama, in his campaign to overhaul American health care, mischaracterized a central anecdote about his mother's deathbed dispute with her insurance company." Barack Obama, Janny Scott, Ann Dunham, Obama-Care, Health Insurance, Deception, Books http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110714023204.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Janny_Scott_book_cover.jpg 20110714110434 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:04:00 -0400 Bill Keller hints his news staff is spending too much time writing books about their pets and concludes: "We indulge our writers because we want the talent happy, and because a little of their prestige accrues to The Times. But we do so at a cost. Books mean writers who are absent or distracted from daily journalism, writers who have to be replaced when they leave their reporting beats and landed somewhere when they return. There is the tricky relationship between what they unearth for their books and what goes into the paper." Bill Keller, Books, Reporters, Brian Stelter, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110714110434.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110714091450 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:14:00 -0400 Contributing writer Jennifer 8. Lee discusses the persecution of the anti-American anti-secrecy group Wikileaks, but doesn't mention she did publicity work for them last year: "The control that companies exert over the Internet in areas ranging from banking to freedom of speech has raised increasing levels of concern, especially in the wake of the controversial WikiLeaks release of State Department cables last year. Several companies constrained WikiLeaks, including Amazon, which kicked WikiLeaks off its servers after pressure from American lawmakers; PayPal, which suspended WikiLeaks' account; and credit card companies, which refused to take donations for it." Jennifer 8. Lee, WIkileaks, Bias by Omission, Disclosure, Internet, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110714091450.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_8_lee.jpg 20110713021732 Clay Waters Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:17:00 -0400 You'll never guess what the paper's chief economics writer David Leonhardt thinks would be a good solution to the debt ceiling/budget crisis. Or maybe you will: "In the end, the most likely tax increase may be the one that's already on the books. On Jan. 1, 2013, all the Bush tax cuts - on the affluent and nonaffluent alike - are set to expire, which would solve roughly one-quarter of our long-term deficit problem. If Republicans have their way, all the tax cuts will be extended. If the Democrats have their way, most of them will be. But if the two parties each control a branch of government after the 2012 elections, neither may be able to get their way. Instead, they would have to compromise - or a stalemate would cause the Bush tax cuts to disappear. After the last few days, a stalemate doesn't seem like such a bad bet." David Leonhardt, Budget, Taxes, Debt Ceiling http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110713021732.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/DavidLeonhardt.jpg 20110713125621 Tim Graham Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:56:00 -0400 Former Times columnist and theatre critic unloads on the current GOP front-runner for 2012: "Romney is the most transparent phony, and I think many Republicans would agree, that you can imagine. He's rolling up his shirtsleeves, he's letting a few pieces of hair fall out of place, a little bit less hair gel, and we're supposed to believe he's Tom Joad in 'The Grapes of Wrath.'" Frank Rich, Tavis Smiley, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110713125621.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20110713124448 Clay Waters Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:44:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes gives the Republican Senate leader a backhanded compliment: "While Mr. McConnell's plan would face an array of political and perhaps constitutional issues, it signaled that Republican leaders did not intend to let conservative demands for deep spending cuts provoke a possible financial crisis and saddle the party with a reputation for irresponsible intransigence." Jackie Calmes, Budget, Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell, Debt Ceiling http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110713124448.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110712032536 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:25:00 -0400 Times international columnist Roger Cohen manages to defend Rupert Murdoch's contributions to keeping newspaper journalism relevant while still excoriating the "shrill right-wing demagoguery" of Fox News. Roger Cohen, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110712032536.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Roger_Cohen.jpg 20110712020103 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:01:00 -0400 But the Times has spent three years telling us he already was a centrist! Jackie Calmes claims that President Obama "put on full display his effort to position himself as a pragmatic centrist willing to confront both parties and address intractable problems....Mr. Obama's remarks were among the clearest expressions yet of a repositioning effort that has been under way since the midterm elections last November...Seeking to shed the image of big-government liberal that Republicans used effectively against him last year..." Barack Obama, Labeling Bias, Jackie Calmes, Budget, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110712020103.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110711030651 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:06:00 -0400 Are jobless benefits and food stamps the only hope for keeping the economy afloat? Motoko Rich: "Unless hiring picks up sharply to compensate, economists fear that the lost income will further crimp consumer spending and act as a drag on a recovery that is still quite fragile." Motoko Rich, Unemployment, Economy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110711030651.aspx 20110711023130 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:31:00 -0400 Economics reporter Catherine Rampell: "And where, if anywhere, is the outrage?...Unlike the hard-pressed in, say, Greece or Spain, the jobless in America seem, well, subdued. The old fire has gone out....It wasn't always so. During the Great Depression, riots erupted on the bread lines. Even in the 1980s and 1990s,angry workers descended on Washington by the busload." Catherine Rampell, Unemployment http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110711023130.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Catherine_Rampell.jpg 20110711013755 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:37:00 -0400 Executive Editor Bill Keller on "Absolute Monarchs – A History of the Papacy": "We get a disheartening chapter on Pius XI and Pius XII, whose fear of Communism (along with the church's long streak of anti-Semitism) made them compliant enablers of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco. Pius XI, in Norwich's view, redeemed himself by his belated but unflinching hostility to the Fascists and Nazis. But his indictment of Pius XII - who resisted every entreaty to speak out against mass murder, even as the trucks were transporting the Jews of Rome to Auschwitz - is compact, evenhanded and devastating." Bill Keller, Roman Catholic Church, Books, Pope Pius XII, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110711013755.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110711110921 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:09:00 -0400 Suddenly, Barack Obama is a budgetary hero and Republicans are the timid ones. The opening to Mark Landler's front-page story: "President Obama tried on Sunday to revive the chances for a sweeping budget agreement to reduce the nation's deficit and repair its perilous finances, but Congressional Republicans continued to balk..." Barack Obama, John Boehner, Carl Hulse, Mark Landler, Budget, Double Standards, Labeling, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110711110921.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20110709073209 Tim Graham Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:25:00 -0400 No politician would dare oppose too passionately the death penalty because America is too primitive. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110709073209.aspx 20110708031539 Tim Graham Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:40:00 -0400 An author remembers her experiment in Third World living in Bali, where she felt "colonial" seeking a cheap nanny to watch her "sponge." Charlotte Bacon, Brad Choyt http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110708031539.aspx 20110707030510 Clay Waters Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:05:00 -0400 Fueled by Democratic press releases, the Times harps on an alleged flub by Republican front-runner Mitt Romney: "And in the past few days, [focus] has revolved around three words in particular: 'things are worse.'" But when did Romney utter that phrase? Mitt Romney, Double Standards, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110707030510.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Rutenberg.jpg 20110707071126 Clay Waters Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:11:00 -0400 Other than that, brilliant, Mr. David Brooks: "An earlier version of this column misstated the amount of revenue increases needed in exchange for spending cuts. It is a few hundred billion, not million." David Brooks, Tea Party, Budget, Republicans, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110707071126.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Brooks.png 20110706022543 Clay Waters Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:25:00 -0400 Former Times columnist Frank Rich snaps at Obama from the left, from the front of New York magazine: "The bigger political problem is that a far larger share of the American electorate views him as a tool of the very fat-cat elite that despises him....But the president has no one to blame but himself for the caricature....he is an elitist of a certain sort....He falls hard for the best and the brightest white guys." Frank Rich, Barack Obama, New York Magazine http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110706022543.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20110706122410 Clay Waters Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:24:00 -0400 A Times Magazine cover story heralds the explicit sex-advice columnist and gay activist Dan Savage as a "devoted husband" and "proud father," while marking his "great contribution to family values" and his "old-fashioned" morality. Left off: His doorknob licking during the 2000 presidential campaign, and his online sabotage of the political career of socially conservative Republican Rick Santorum. Dan Savage, Mark Oppenheimer, Bias by Omission, Sen. Rick Santorum, Gary Bauer, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110706122410.aspx 20110706081617 Clay Waters Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:16:00 -0400 A reader responds to Bill Keller trashing Sarah Palin: "Had your fellow media colleagues given Barack Obama the same treatment as you have given Mrs. Palin, no one would care for him either." Other respondents called him a leftist; an elitist; a communist; a socialist; and, less intelligent than his daughter. Bill Keller, Letters to the Editor, Sarah Palin, Sunday Magazine http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110706081617.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110705023040 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:30:00 -0400 The Times' idea of a "conservative" columnist accuses conservative Republicans: "The members of this movement have no sense of moral decency. A nation makes a sacred pledge to pay the money back when it borrows money. But the members of this movement talk blandly of default and are willing to stain their nation's honor." David Brooks, Tea Party, Budget, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110705023040.aspx 20110705125837 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:58:00 -0400 Times writer Jonathan Mahler ties it all together: "When the first Balco indictments were handed down in February 2004, they were trumpeted as a blow for democracy, the sports equivalent of the toppling of the statue of Saddam in Firdos Square, which had taken place less than a year earlier....we've lived through two endless wars and our nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression....[prosecutor] Novitzky is starting to look more and more like Ken Starr, circa 1998, myopically pursuing a case whose relevance diminishes with each new news cycle." Jonathan Mahler, Sports, Crime, Ken Starr, Lance Armstrong, Roger Clemens http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110705125837.aspx 20110705123231 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:14:00 -0400 Happy Independence Day? "If there is no such thing as a healthy hot dog, how do you limit the damage at this weekend's weenie roast?" William Neuman, Hot Dogs http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110705123231.aspx 20110701013503 Clay Waters Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:35:00 -0400 No love from the Times for Gov. Cuomo on this issue, anyway: "The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale, state environmental regulators said on Thursday. The process would be allowed on private lands, opening New York to one of the fastest-growing - critics would say reckless - areas of the energy industry." Natural Gas, Danny Hakim, Nicholas Confessore, Ian Urbina, Fracking, Bias by Omission, Environment, Andrew Cuomo, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110701013503.aspx 20110701104849 Clay Waters Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:48:00 -0400 Plus Michael Shear longs to cover hard policy news, then spends the weekend going through Sarah Palin's old emails. Plus, anti-terrorist program wrecking reporter James Risen thinks "right-wing bloggers" are out to get him. Bill Keller, Sarah Palin, Michael Shear, James Risen http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110701104849.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110701103748 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:37:00 -0400 If you find the leftward tilt of our nation's broadcast networks and top newspapers frustrating, you may enjoy getting your news straight from CNSNews.com, a news site developed by the Media Research Center, sponsor of Times Watch, to deliver "the right news, right now." CNS News, E-Brief http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110701103748.aspx 20110630034034 Clay Waters Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:40:00 -0400 Yes, and they're called "liberal Democrats: "And many voters have blanched at a number of [Florida Gov. Rick Scott's] legislative accomplishments, particularly a new state budget that puts thousands of state employees and teachers out of work and requires public workers to start paying part of their salary to cover pension costs." Dan Van Natta Jr., Gary Fineout, Florida, Gov. Rick Scott, Trains http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110630034034.aspx 20110630013108 Clay Waters Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:31:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg on Obama's hesitation to fully endorse gay marriage: "His critics say that by invoking states' rights, the president - a former constitutional law professor and son of a black father and a white mother - brought up arguments once used to justify laws that would have prevented his own parents from marrying....The remarks infuriated some close allies, who said Mr. Obama, a former constitutional law professor and the child of an interracial marriage, was invoking arguments once used to defend segregation." Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110630013108.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20110629023057 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:30:00 -0400 Eric Eckholm's slanted story on fetal pain has some important omissions; two of his sources for medical research are either abortion advocates or abortion providers. Previously Eckholm had called the pro-abortion Planned Parenthood merely "advocates for women's health." Eric Eckholm, Abortion, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110629023057.aspx 20110629011110 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:11:00 -0400 Hulse, hemming and hawing around the forbidden phrase "tax increase," claim that Democrats are merely seeking "new federal revenues....tax changes...new tax revenue." Carl Hulse, Labeling Bias, Tax Hikes, Revenues, Debt Limit http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110629011110.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20110629114139 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:41:00 -0400 Reporter Simon Romero: "To the many comparisons that can been made between Venezuela and Cuba - two close allies, both infused with revolutionary zeal, driven by movements that revere their leaders - consider one more: the presidential brother, stepping in during a time of illness." What about their leaders' shared love of authoritarian rule and imprisoning their political opponents? Simon Romero, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Communism, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110629114139.aspx 20110629111211 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:12:00 -0400 Christopher Helman at Forbes found Urbina's accusations of low reserves, false claims, and too-high extraction costs “absurd on its face. The United States is currently producing more natural gas than at any time in history, on track for 27 trillion cubic feet this year....We would have thought that the Times would be in favor of plentiful, low-cost natural gas. It burns a lot cleaner than coal, and with nuclear off the table for now, gas is poised to fuel U.S. economic growth for more than a generation to come. I can only guess that the problem, as the Times sees it, is that as long as we have all that cheap gas, there's precious little need for solar panels, windmills and other cornerstones of their much-heralded but slow evolving green jobs revolution." Ian Urbina, Natural Gas, Environment, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110629111211.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ian_Urbina.jpg 20110628040228 Clay Waters Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:02:00 -0400 The Times Book Review goes into detail about criticism of the black cover of "Demonic," Ann Coulter's latest New York Times bestseller. But will the paper deign to review what's inside? It rarely does with Coulter bestsellers. Ann Coulter, Books, Demonic, Book Review http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110628040228.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ann_coulter_demonic_book_cover.jpg 20110628032350 Clay Waters Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:23:00 -0400 Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations writes of reporter Ian Urbina's two front-page stories doubting the prospects for natural gas: "Urbina was clearly looking for negative views of shale gas, and had no problem finding them....What is a surprise is that Urbina hasn't done much to put them in context....The Times descriptions of the emails....also betray a serious lack of understanding of the industry." Ian Urbina, Natural Gas http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110628032350.aspx 20110628030118 Clay Waters Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:01:00 -0400 Jeff Zeleny made room for Michele Bachmann's latest in a "string of gaffes," but the Times has yet to report on President Obama false claim he had awarded a Medal of Honor to living soldier Jared Monti, who had actually had been killed in Afghanistan in 2006, even though the paper reported on the speech. Jeff Zeleny, Michele Bachmann, Barack Obama, Double Standards, Bias by Omission, Medal of Honor, Jared Monti http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110628030118.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Zeleny.jpg 20110628125951 Clay Waters Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:59:00 -0400 The pall of liberal conventional wisdom keeps the New York Times documentary "Page One" within safe parameters for its intended audience, with no conservative critics to balance Times supporting talking heads like Gay Talese, Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel or Daily Kos blog founder Markos Moulitsas. Page One, Movies, Documentary, David Carr, Brian Stelter, Liberal Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110628125951.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Page_One.jpg 20110627032142 Clay Waters Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:21:00 -0400 Just when did this miracle occur? from reporter Mark Landler's promotional piece on the Vice President: "While Mr. Biden has overcome his reputation for gaffes..." Mark Landler, Joe Biden http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110627032142.aspx 20110627022233 Clay Waters Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:22:00 -0400 Times' Executive Editor Bill Keller lets us know where he stands on gay marriage: "Paul's approach offers conservatives all of that plus a heaping helping of less-government-in-your-life. And one other thing: a chance to avoid being on the wrong side of history." Bill Keller, Gay Marriage, New York State, Ron Paul http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110627022233.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110627014255 Clay Waters Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:43:00 -0400 Former White House correspondent turned columnist Frank Bruni: "Same-sex marriage? I don't recall our talking - or dreaming - much about that. We considered ourselves realists. Sometimes idealists....we were pessimists, and underestimated our country's capacity for change." Reporter John Leland: "They came to shout, dance, cheer, strut, hug and shed tears of joy, knowing that on July 24, when the law takes effect, the season for tears will begin in earnest." Gay Marriage, New York State, Michael Barbaro, Frank Bruni, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110627014255.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gay_marriage.jpg 20110624025401 Clay Waters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:53:00 -0400 An off-lead story on a big win by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie describes passage of a bill with the support of Republicans and "a few Democrats." But 14 out of 47 Democrats sounds closer to a bipartisan triumph. Richard Perez-Pena, Chris Christie, Spending Cuts, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110624025401.aspx 20110624122450 Clay Waters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:24:00 -0400 The Times vaguely and euphemistically calls Democratic calls for tax hikes "revenues," while the Washington Post clearly states that "congressional Democrats pressed for as much as $400 billion in new taxes..." Carl Hulse, Budget, Tax Revenues, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110624122450.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20110624114920 Clay Waters Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:49:00 -0400 Times reporter and anti-terrorist-program-wrecker James Risen, sensitive to "right wing" hate mail: "In 2006, I was awarded the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, for reporting on President Bush's illegal domestic wiretapping program....an organized campaign of hate mail from right wing groups with close ties to the White House was launched, inundating me with personal threats...Right wing pundits and bloggers supporting the Bush administration took to television and the Internet to call for the White House and the Justice Department to prosecute me for espionage." James Risen, War on Terror, Eric Licthblau, CIA, Affidavit http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110624114920.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/James_Risen.jpg 20110623040146 Clay Waters Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:01:00 -0400 Michael Powell and Monica Davey urge readers to look behind the curtain of Indiana's economic health: "The state also serves as a case study of the often large tradeoffs required to balance the books when political leaders take the possibility of raising income taxes off the table. Fiscal conservatism, in other words, comes with its own costs." Michael Powell, Monica Davey, Mitch Daniels http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110623040146.aspx 20110623024433 Clay Waters Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:44:00 -0400 Celia Dugger: "The prickly ambivalence that South Africans often show toward the United States, which is often perceived here as an overbearing superpower, seems to have been suspended for Mrs. Obama. South Africans have embraced her with stirring emotion since she arrived on Monday, and she has been hugging them back, one by one, stop after stop." Celia Dugger, South Africa, Michelle Obama, Diplomacy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110623024433.aspx 20110623010940 Clay Waters Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:09:00 -0400 Friedman also said American Jews calling Obama anti-Israel is "pure crap," on a lively edition of Charlie Rose. Thomas Friedman, Global Warming, Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Israel, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110623010940.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_rant.JPG 20110623091259 Clay Waters Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:12:00 -0400 Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer: "But the disagreements over Libya have made for some odd bedfellows, including antiwar lawmakers like Mr. Kucinich and right-of-center representatives, as well as strong Democratic supporters of the president alongside Republican hawks." Jennifer Steinhauer, Labeling Bias, Libya, Dennis Kucinich, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110623091259.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20110622040043 Clay Waters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:00:00 -0400 From an angry Times lead editorial: "Wal-Mart got what it wanted from the court - unanimous dismissal of the suit as the plaintiffs presented it - and more from the five conservative justices, who went further in restricting class actions in general....Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the four moderates on the court, dissented from Justice Scalia's broader analysis and sought a much narrower holding." Supreme Court, Editorials, Labeling Bias, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Wal-Mart, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110622040043.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/SC_Ginsburg.jpg 20110622024236 Clay Waters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:42:00 -0400 The Times finally finds a place to cut government spending. Michael Cooper: "[The resolution] was nonetheless a remarkable signal of both the nation's spreading war weariness and the lingering pain that the economic downturn has wrought on the nation's cities." Helene Cooper: In Washington, the argument over whether the United States should be building bridges in Kandahar or Cleveland is bound to grow even louder as the 2012 election campaign heats up." Helene Cooper, Michael Cooper, Afghanistan, Deficit, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110622024236.aspx 20110622124104 Clay Waters Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:40:00 -0400 Sunday's front-page brought us this joyous sentence, teasing a 4,000-word profile of an alternative family: "In Brooklyn, a single mother, her son, her sperm donor and his lover are helping to redefine the concept of the American family." N.R. Kleinfeld, Gay Rights, Family, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110622124104.aspx 20110621035307 Clay Waters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:53:00 -0400 When it comes to gay issues, the Times tossing away journalism in favor of frothy anecdotes like Shaila Dewan's unjournalistic celebration of the possible legalization on the possible imminent legalization of gay marriage in New York State: "Jay Blotcher and Brook Garrett are as married as two men can be. On their dining room table, they have laid out the proof: a New York City certificate of domestic partnership from April 2000...an actual marriage license from California in 2008 and...an affidavit of marriage from that euphoric moment in 2004 when nearby New Paltz, N.Y., became the center of the gay marriage movement." Shaila Dewan, Gay Marriage, New York State, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110621035307.aspx 20110621033636 Clay Waters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:36:00 -0400 3,000 words on Sunday's front page about alleged ethical questions surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas add up to...not much: "The project throws a spotlight on an unusual, and ethically sensitive, friendship that appears to be markedly different from those of other justices on the nation's highest court....In several instances, news reports of Mr. Crow's largess provoked controversy and questions, adding fuel to a rising debate about Supreme Court ethics. Clarence Thomas, Mike McIntire, Supreme Court, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110621033636.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/clarence_thomas.jpg 20110621032518 Clay Waters Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:25:00 -0400 Catherine Rampell defends extra federal spending on unemployment benefits on the front page: "One word, just one little word. That's all that Frank Ballesteros, a 62-year-old desperate for work, needs to stay afloat. The word is not 'hope' or 'God' or 'patience.' It is, improbably, 'three.'....Some economists say that cutting off the long-term unemployed from extended federal assistance could backfire by putting further strain on state economies instead. Indeed, most states were quick to make the one-word change, counting on the federal money not only to support ailing families but also to serve as a strong stimulus (jobless benefits are normally spent more quickly than, say, tax refunds)." Catherine Rampell, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110621032518.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Catherine_Rampell.jpg 20110620051632 Clay Waters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:16:00 -0400 "If the 2012 election were held in the newsrooms of America and pitted Sarah Palin against Barack Obama, I doubt Palin would get 10 percent of the vote. However tempting the newsworthy havoc of a Palin presidency, I'm pretty sure most journalists would recoil in horror from the idea. That is not - or not entirely - for the reasons Palin thinks: that journalists are liberal elitists, that they find the Tea Party fringe ridiculous or alarming or that they are infatuated with the cerebral black liberal in the White House. There's a grain of truth and a loaf of myth in each of those." Bill Keller, Sarah Palin http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110620051632.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110620014926 Clay Waters Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:49:00 -0400 Jeff Zeleny: "The references to Mr. Romney's own unemployment status added yet another humorous, but occasionally awkward, moment to his ever-growing catalog of off-the-cuff remarks that he makes as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination." Yet the Times has ignored Obama's recent "joke" about the failure of his "shovel-ready" projects and his ridiculous suggestion that A.T.M.'s are contributing to current high unemployment. Jeff Zeleny, Mitt Romney, Campaign 2012, Barack Obama, Double Standards, Gaffes, Economy, Unemployment http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110620014926.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Zeleny.jpg 20110617023546 Tim Graham Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:21:00 -0400 The Times warmly passes along how the New York Public Library is paying $900,000 to buy the papers of hallucinogenic-drug promoter (and leftist radical) Timothy Leary. Patricia Cohen, Timothy Leary, New York Public Library, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110617023546.aspx 20110616041849 Tim Graham Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:13:00 -0400 Clicking to the Arts page on the Times website might bring you a pop-up ad for The Book of Mormon - and Ben Brantley's gooey praise. , TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110616041849.aspx 20110615115728 Clay Waters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:57:00 -0400 Kate Zernike on Anthony Weiner, victim of Washington "puritanism"? "But technology keeps adding new and in many ways more seductive temptations to the mix. And this is happening at a time when, many argue, a more prying press corps, stricter public standards and greater partisanship have combined to make Washington oddly more puritanical than it once was." Kate Zernike, Anthony Weiner, Sex Scandals, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110615115728.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20110615104016 Clay Waters Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:40:00 -0400 Movie critic John Anderson exculpates a convicted domestic terrorist of the Earth Liberation Front: "Some would call Mr. McGowan overeager. The government calls him a terrorist....[Daniel] McGowan admits to having participated in arson committed by the front, a group the F.B.I. called America's No. 1 domestic terror threat in 2001, though no one was harmed during its acts of property destruction. 'They wanted to give him 330 years for burning down two empty buildings,'Ms. McGowan said of her brother." John Anderson, Domestic Terrorism, Earth Liberation Front, Movies, Daniel McGowan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110615104016.aspx 20110614023518 Clay Waters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:35:00 -0400 Manohla Dargis's latest movie "spoiler" - another cri de couer about the lack of women on screen in summer movies: "Is there a lesson here for those big-studio executives who even now are reading the latest iteration of the three-men-and-a-monkey story (but no women) and believe that the current state of American cinema - separate and unequal - will continue to fly?" Manohla Dargis, Sexism, Movies, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110614023518.aspx 20110614014320 Clay Waters Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:43:00 -0400 The paper's new op-ed columnist defends consumer crusader, bankruptcy expert, and liberal heroine Elizabeth Warren from Republican harassment of women: "It's official: Elizabeth Warren will return to the torture chamber known as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 14. Earlier this week, Darrell Issa, the California Republican who is chairman of the committee, tweeted the news. Apparently, Democrats aren't the only ones who use Twitter to harass women." Joe Nocera, Elizabeth Warren http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110614014320.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Joe_Nocera.jpg 20110613033641 Clay Waters Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:36:00 -0400 Jim Rutenberg and William Yardley damn the former Alaska governor with faint praise: "She was also, in the years before her national emergence, more open to compromise and political dealing than her more recent image suggests....While e-mails like these might fuel critics who question her policy acumen, others show Ms. Palin clearly engaged in lawmaking." Sarah Palin, Emails, Jim Rutenberg, William Yardley, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110613033641.aspx 20110613025900 Clay Waters Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:58:00 -0400 Michael Shear sounds bitter and mad at having to talk about Anthony Weiner: "Lots of policy and we're going to start with the sex scandal!" What did he write about the next two days? Sarah Palin's three-year-old emails, breaking big stories like this: "Palin Wanted a Tanning Bed in the Governor's House." Too bad it had already appeared in the Times three years ago. Sarah Palin, Emails, Michael Shear, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110613025900.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20110610025036 Clay Waters Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:50:00 -0400 "But for the increasingly intolerant minority who will decide the next Republican nominee, Huntsman is already a heretic for speaking common sense on climate change, gay civil unions and immigration....by refusing to throw red meat to the wackos, he can elevate the Republican debate....The modern Republican Party will force any politician who shows signs of doing actual hard thinking about life and public policy to walk a plank into a sea of craziness." Timothy Egan, Jon Huntsman, Campaign 2012, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110610025036.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TimothyEgan.jpg 20110610125443 Clay Waters Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:54:00 -0400 Plus, Matt Bai deals two anti-GOP race cards and comes up a joker; tornadoes as economic stimulus; Anita Hill as role model for France; and columnist David Brooks falls victim to the damp squid. Jil Abramson, Racims, Matt Bai, David Brooks, Elaine Sciolino http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110610125443.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/NYT_Logo_Blue_New.JPG 20110609034640 Clay Waters Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:46:00 -0400 News that Alaska would release a trove of Sarah Palin e-mails from her tenure as governor spurred the Times to look to its liberal readership for help digging up dirt: "We're asking readers to help us identify interesting and newsworthy e-mails, people and events that we may want to highlight. Interested users can fill out a simple form to describe the nature of the e-mail, and provide a name and e-mail address..." The Times could have used some of that initiative to uncover Obama-care's expensive surprises. Sarah Palin, Emails, Crowdsourcing, Double Standards, Obama-care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110609034640.aspx 20110609015438 Clay Waters Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:54:00 -0400 Jeff Zeleny on Washington Week in Review has some doubts about the campaign finance prosecution of John Edwards: "And of course, it's not ended very well for him and it's a tragedy all the way around. We can argue the merits of, if this is a rightful prosecution or not, the - a jury will decide that in North Carolina..." Katharine Seelye, Jeff Zeleny, John Edwards, Indictment, Party Identification http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110609015438.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Zeleny.jpg 20110608042447 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:24:00 -0400 Thomas Friedman, who lives in a mansion, calls for people to own less: "We will realize, [environmentalist Paul Gilding] predicts, that the consumer-driven growth model is broken and we have to move to a more happiness-driven growth model, based on people working less and owning less." Tom Friedman, Global Warming, Hypocrisy, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110608042447.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_Rose_11_09_10.JPG 20110608022401 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:23:00 -0400 An anonymous Times editor compares Abramson's management style to notoriously alienating former executive editor Howell Raines. Plus, speculation on Jill Abramson's choice for Washington bureau chief, feminist columnist and fellow Anita Hill supporter Maureen Dowd. Jill Abramson, Ken Starr, Howell Raines http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110608022401.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jill-Abramson.jpg 20110607031950 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:19:00 -0400 From Monday's lead editorial: "The biggest part of that effort, imposing cumbersome requirements that voters have a government ID, has been painted as a response to voter fraud, an essentially nonexistent problem....Black lawmakers called it what it is: a modern whiff of Jim Crow." Racism, Voting, Jim Crow, Editorial, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110607031950.aspx 20110607024239 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:42:00 -0400 Times media reporters confess the press is uneasy with conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart: "[He] remains a hero among many conservatives even while many liberals and members of the mainstream news media hold their noses at the mere mention of his name.....Mr. Breitbart's relationship with the traditional news media has been strained by mistrust on both sides - with the conservative blogger repeatedly criticizing the major news organizations for ignoring news of consequence to the political right, and the mainstream media harboring suspicions about Mr. Breitbart's motives and methods." Jeremy Peters, Jennifer Preston, Andrew Breitbart, Anthony Weiner, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110607024239.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Breitbart.jpg 20110607010229 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:02:00 -0400 James Dao makes the front page again with another story critical of the Afghanistan war, this time heralding a conservative congressman as "the leading edge of a conservative movement to rein in American military power - a break from the muscular foreign policy of President George W. Bush." Dao even allowed Jones to work in his Roman Catholicism to support his anti-war stance, something the paper rarely if ever does for conservatives who defend their stances on abortion or gay marriage on religious grounds. James Dao, Afghanistan, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110607010229.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/James_Dao.jpg 20110606045909 Clay Waters Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:59:00 -0400 While Israel's armed response to the attempted invasion on its border with Syria made Monday's front page, Syrian authorities themselves have slaughtered over 1,000 of its rebelling citizens, stories that have only sporadically made the Times' front page. Israel, Syria, Double Standards, Killings, Isabel Kershner, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110606045909.aspx 20110606034419 Clay Waters Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:44:00 -0400 The paper's executive editor Bill Keller laments that "Suspicion hardens into full-blown conviction when people lose faith in authorities" like the New York Times. Keller approvingly quotes academic Peter Knight: "As soon as you lose faith that the mainstream media are telling the truth, anything is believable." Bill Keller, Conspiracy Theories, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110606034419.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110606031521 Clay Waters Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:15:00 -0400 A Times obituary for Jack Kevorkian, who practiced ad-hoc euthanasia, gave him credit for principle while eliding much of his creepiness, recounted by a fellow Times reporter: "Kevorkian was obsessed with human experimentation, and pined for a day when both assisted suicides and executions could be accompanied by vivisection." Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Keith Schneider, John Schwartz, Euthanasia, Obituary http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110606031521.aspx 20110603043546 Clay Waters Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:35:00 -0400 Incoming Executive Editor Jill Abramson's described her life-long religious love for the Times to a reporter for the paper: "In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth." The quote appeared online on Thursday, but did not make it into print on Friday. Jill Abramson, Jeremy Peters, Bias by Omission, Religion http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110603043546.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jill-Abramson.jpg 20110603025645 Clay Waters Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:56:00 -0400 Bill Keller may be resigning from the top job at the Times, but his hostility for Rupert Murdoch and Fox News remains: "There are commentators on Fox News who, if they didn't have The New York Times, would be selling exercise equipment on late-night TV." And would he take a baseball bat to Murdoch's head? Keller says "No Comment." Bill Keller, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Twitter, Resignation http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110603025645.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110603012239 Clay Waters Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:22:00 -0400 Katharine Seelye's initial online report on the indictment on campaign finance violations of John Edwards, the former senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate left out one crucial word: “Democrat." Yet the Times is quick to label Republicans in controversies in the headline or opening paragraph. Katharine Seelye, John Edwards, Indictment, Campaign 2008, Party Identification, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110603012239.aspx 20110602040604 Clay Waters Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:06:00 -0400 Jill Abramson, who will become Times executive editor in September, still holds a grudge over how Anita Hill was treated during the Thomas hearings (and wrote "Strange Justice," a Thomas-hostile book, in 1994). She has also linked 2010 pro-Republican campaign spending to the abuses of Watergate. Jill Abramson, Bill Keller, Liberal Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110602040604.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Abramson_Keller.jpg 20110602121339 Clay Waters Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:13:00 -0400 In the wake of Bill Keller's surprise resignation as editor of the New York Times, a reporter there hails Keller's "eight years of great journalistic distinction." Times Watch begs to differ (see anti-terrorist programs, Duke lacrosse rape hoax, John McCain affair allegations, etc...) Bill Keller, Resignation, Liberal Bias, Fox News, Jill Abramson, Jeremy Peters, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110602121339.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110601031315 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:13:00 -0400 Frederic Bastiat, call your office: "There is no silver lining to a funnel cloud, as anyone who survived the tornadoes can attest, but reconstruction can help rebuild local economies as well as neighborhoods....But there are already stirrings of economic activity. Home Depot, whose store in Joplin was destroyed, began selling lumber and other supplies from a parking lot there on Tuesday as it prepared to open a 30,000-square-foot temporary store." Michael Cooper, Tornadoes, Broken Window Fallacy, Economy, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110601031315.aspx 20110601015320 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:53:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes on those dumb Republicans insisting on fiscal accountability: "Many Republicans have also made comments indicating that they do not understand or do not care that an increase in the debt limit is needed not only for new spending but also to cover Social Security checks, military pay and myriad other obligations previously agreed to, as well as for payments to creditors holding Treasury bonds." Jackie Calmes, Debt Limit, Republican, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110601015320.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110601010454 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:04:00 -0400 Libyans love America and the Obama administration, says reporter Rod Nordland: "Americans and, for that matter, all Westerners are treated hereabouts with a warmth and gratitude rarely seen in any Muslim country - even those with 100,000 American troops - in probably half a century or more. People smile and go out of their way to say hello to them, and are almost shockingly courteous....Many Libyan parents with newborn girls are reportedly naming them Susan, in honor of Susan E. Rice, the Obama administration's ambassador to the United Nations, for her vote in the Security Council in favor of establishing the no-fly zone." Rod Nordland, Libya, Double Standards, Iraq, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110601010454.aspx 20110531024930 Clay Waters Tue, 31 May 2011 14:49:00 -0400 Raymond Hernandez: "Ms. Hochul, 52, startled the national political establishment last week, capturing a Congressional seat that had been in Republican hands for 40 years. But those who know her say it was her upbringing - in a modest, devoutly Roman Catholic, service-minded family - that made her instantly able to understand the unease among economically anxious voters over a Republican plan to overhaul Medicare. Raymond Hernandez, Kathy Hochul, Abortion, Bias by Omission, Double Standards, Campaign 2011 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110531024930.aspx 20110531010327 Clay Waters Tue, 31 May 2011 13:03:00 -0400 Michael Shear sounds sour over Sarah Palin's lack of attention to the media on her Memorial Day bus trip: "Sarah Palin has apparently decided that she can treat the media any way she wants - and they will be there regardless. And she might not be wrong....It was a surreal situation given the fact that Ms. Palin and her advisers had shown an almost complete contempt for the press corps and its usual rituals....Ms. Palin, the former Alaska governor, also continued her manipulation of the news media." Michael Shear, Sarah Palin, Memorial Day, Bus Tour, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110531010327.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Damon_Winter_Palin.jpg 20110531122648 Clay Waters Tue, 31 May 2011 12:26:00 -0400 Carl Hulse on sunny Democratic prospects for 2012: "But the victory in New York was galvanizing for Democrats, and for now at least has given them confidence that they can use Medicare to press their broader case that Republicans are going too far in their drive to cut spending and reduce the reach of government while continuing to provide tax breaks for the wealthy." By contrast, the Times never saw Republican wins in off-year elections as noteworthy or as predictors of electoral success to come. Carl Hulse, Kathy Hochul, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110531122648.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20110531102307 Clay Waters Tue, 31 May 2011 10:22:00 -0400 How sweet of the Times: "David Mamet explains his intellectual shift to the right. The far right." One of Andrew Goldman's questions to the acclaimed playwright: "Sometimes in the book I thought you were just trying to anger some of your liberal friends, like when you wrote the West sees the Middle East conflict as "entertainment." Andrew Goldman, David Mamet, Q&A, Sunday Magazine, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110531102307.aspx 20110527113742 Clay Waters Fri, 27 May 2011 11:37:00 -0400 Right-wing Truthers? "...the station canceled [Bill] Weinberg's program...after he accused WBAI of promoting fringe right-wing commentators and conspiracy theories claiming that the United States government was behind the destruction of the World Trade Center." Colin Moynihan, Leftists, Truthers, Gaffes, Bias by Omission, Terrorism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110527113742.aspx 20110527105517 Clay Waters Fri, 27 May 2011 10:48:00 -0400 The Times has certainly become more comfortable with the Patriot Act since the Bush administration: "Patriot Act Battle Could Hinder Investigators." But a 2005 story on extending a Patriot Act provision allowing searches of library records likened librarians to freedom-fighting American colonial rebels. Charlie Savage, Patriot Act, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen Rand Paul, Bias by Omission, Spencer Ackerman http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110527105517.aspx 20110526021933 Clay Waters Thu, 26 May 2011 14:19:00 -0400 From Jennifer Steinhauer's lead story: "But the last six weeks have left Republicans pointed into a something more like a headwind. With polls and angry town hall meetings suggesting that many voters were wary of a Medicare overhaul if not opposed, party unity and optimism have given way to a bit of a Republican-on-Republican rumpus." Jennifer Steinhauer, Medicare, Campaign 2011, New York State, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110526021933.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20110526121353 Clay Waters Thu, 26 May 2011 00:13:00 -0400 "Israelis See Netanyahu Trip as Diplomatic Failure" reads the headline over Ethan Bronner's slanted story from Jerusalem. He apparently means a failure among Israeli liberal newspaper columnists, because actual Israelis support Netanyahu. An Israeli headline: "Netanyahu's popularity soaring following Washington trip." Ethan Bronner, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, Bias by Omission, Gaffes, Palestinians, Peace Talks, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110526121353.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ethan_Bronner.JPG 20110525023259 Clay Waters Wed, 25 May 2011 14:32:00 -0400 Isn't that up to outlets like the Times? "What matters, they say, is that the Tiffany story is sticking to Mr. Gingrich, helping to define - or perhaps redefine - him in the critical early days of his bid for the Republican presidential nomination." Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Newt Gingrich, Tiffany's, Jewelry, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110525023259.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20110525014603 Clay Waters Wed, 25 May 2011 13:46:00 -0400 Raymond Hernandez is quick to see "a blow to the national Republican Party" in the results of a special congressional election, confidently asserting the G.O.P.'s Medicare reform plan "appears to have become a liability heading into the 2012 elections." But the Times dismissed a Republican boom after GOP wins in 2009. Raymond Hernandez, Jennifer Steinhauer, Michael Powell, Campaign 2011, New York State, Special Election, Double Standards, Kathy Hochul, Medicare, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110525014603.aspx 20110524124203 Clay Waters Tue, 24 May 2011 12:41:00 -0400 The Times' Joseph Berger celebrates three left-wing parties, including the CPUSA, even using Communist lingo: "All three parties are finding the Internet to be a fruitful recruiting tool and believe their message has been given a fresh, beguiling appeal by the failures of capitalist symbols like Lehman Brothers and by debacles like the billions of dollars in securities tied to subprime mortgages....Rather than trumpeting membership numbers, the parties...philosophically, they take a kind of I-told-you-so schadenfreude in statistics that indicate a growing gap between the rich and the poor, with top chief executives now making 275 times as much as the average proletarian." Joseph Berger, Communist Party USA, Double Standards, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110524124203.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/CP_logo.png 20110524102752 Clay Waters Tue, 24 May 2011 10:27:00 -0400 Eduardo Porter, former Times economics reporter turned editorial board member, whines about America's lack of "generosity and compassion," which he dubiously defines as America's relatively low tax rates and modest spending on social programs: "But perhaps [Obama] shouldn't trust Americans' generosity and compassion to simply carry the day on Capitol Hill. To build the America he extols he is going to have to fight for it." Eduardo Porter, Editorial, Economics, Barack Obama, Tea Party, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110524102752.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Eduardo_Porter.jpg 20110524092746 Clay Waters Tue, 24 May 2011 09:27:00 -0400 So much for objective journalism; in recent weeks the Times has embraced gay advocacy, culminating with the paper's online multi-media feature "Coming Out," introduced with a post, "Gay Teenagers, in Their Own Words," and 30 stories from "L.G.B.T. youth," compiled with the help of gay activist groups like GLAAD. Gay Rights, Teenagers, Coming Out, GLAAD, John Branch, Athletes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110524092746.aspx 20110523045234 Rich Noyes Mon, 23 May 2011 16:52:00 -0400 In the This Week roundtable on ABC Sunday morning about the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the alleged sexual assault of a female hotel worker, the Times' Paris correspondent Elaine Sciolino endorsed it as France's "Anita Hill moment." But Sciolino skipped the sexual harassment charges Paula Jones brought against then-President Bill Clinton in 1994 in an actual lawsuit, not last-minute testimony. Elaine Sciolino, France, Sexual Harassment, Anita Hill, Bias by Omission, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110523045234.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Elaine_Sciolino.JPG 20110523024708 Clay Waters Mon, 23 May 2011 14:47:00 -0400 Gail Collins grades Couric on a curve: "From my perspective as a charter of the progress of American women, Couric was a total success. The first great mandate for a First Woman is not to screw things up for the Second Woman or the Third. On that count, Couric did great. She was under incredible scrutiny and pressure, and she held up her end. There was never a point at which American viewers turned to each other and said: 'Well, that certainly didn't work out.'" Gail Collins, Katie Couric, Feminism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110523024708.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.JPG 20110523124503 Clay Waters Mon, 23 May 2011 12:45:00 -0400 Columnist Charles Blow predicts this summer will be a turning point that "may hinge largely on the callousness of conservatives...right-wing politicians have developed an unshakeable immunity to empathy...corporations have developed a taste for blood squeezed from turnips." Charles Blow, Columnists, Tea Party, Conservatives, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110523124503.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Charles_Blow.jpg 20110523115000 Clay Waters Mon, 23 May 2011 11:49:00 -0400 Steven Lee Myers painted Israel's PM Netanyahu as stubborn in the face of Obama's reasonable "peace" offer: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told President Obama on Friday that he shared his vision for a peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and then promptly listed a series of nonnegotiable conditions that have kept the two sides at an impasse for years." Then Myers accused both Netanyahu and American conservatives for getting Obama's "nuances" wrong: "Mr. Netanyahu simply ignored that nuance - as did many conservative critics here in Washington - further exacerbating tensions with the administration." Steven Lee Myers, Israel, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110523115000.aspx 20110520112635 Clay Waters Fri, 20 May 2011 11:26:00 -0400 Um, that would be "damp squib," Mr. Brooks: "The Big Society started in part as a political gadget, as a way to distinguish the current Conservatives from the more individualistic ethos of the Thatcher years. It has turned out to be something of a damp squid politically." David Brooks, Columnists, Gaffes, Damp Squid http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110520112635.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Brooks.jpg 20110519015003 Clay Waters Thu, 19 May 2011 13:50:00 -0400 From the Times' lead story: "Diplomatic momentum has been with the Palestinians for several years, with their leadership and requests viewed as reasonable and Mr. Netanyahu as unyielding....the upheavals in the Arab world are turning the mood ever more against Israel, making American and European leaders eager to pressure it for concessions....Palestinians have been absorbing lessons and audacity from pro-democracy demonstrators across the Arab world." Helene Cooper, Ethan Bronner, Israel, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110519015003.aspx 20110519125334 Clay Waters Thu, 19 May 2011 12:53:00 -0400 Gail Collins talks Schwarzenegger's love child on Rachel Maddow's show: "...there are people, a lot of people in the country who not only have very strong, you know, family values, but believe that somehow you can legislate them into other people's families and they're very powerful within the party.... I mean, look at Bill Clinton. Look how well Bill Clinton did. Look how much everybody loves Bill Clinton now after - I mean, they don't care as long as the performance is right." Gail Collins, Rachel Maddow, Abortion, Infidelity, Arnold Schwarzenegger http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110519125334.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.JPG 20110518014504 Clay Waters Wed, 18 May 2011 13:45:00 -0400 A tale of two labels. Two Carl Hulse stories have featured the perjorative phrase "Big Oil" in their headlines; yet Hulse previously criticized the GOP for using the allegedly misleading phrase "death tax." Carl Hulse, Labeling Bias, Big Oil, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110518014504.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20110518110845 Clay Waters Wed, 18 May 2011 11:08:00 -0400 Times reporter Matt Bai: "Is there a racial element to some of the attacks on President Obama? It's pretty hard to argue there isn't....race and cultural otherness were powerful undercurrents in Republican politics long before the nation's first black president came along. The infamous Willie Horton ad that George Bush deployed against Michael Dukakis in 1988, you may recall, was more overtly racist than anything Mr. Obama had to parry 20 years later." Matt Bai, Racism, Willie Horton, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110518110845.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20110517125003 Clay Waters Tue, 17 May 2011 12:50:00 -0400 And Iraqis thought they had it bad under Saddam Hussein: "Baghdad has weathered invasion, occupation, sectarian warfare and suicide bombers. But now it faces a new scourge: tastelessness." Back in 2004 the Times also suggested art was on the decline post-dictatorship. "The war in Iraq has been especially disillusioning for young Iraqi artists, many of whom believed the American promises of freedom." Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, Michael Schmidt, Yasir Ghazi, Dictatorships, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110517125003.aspx 20110517105333 Clay Waters Tue, 17 May 2011 10:53:00 -0400 Former reporter Timothy Egan's takes an objective stance on Paul Ryan's Medicare plan: "Could you divide the country between greedy geezers and everyone else as a way to radically alter the social contract?...In essence, Republicans would break up the population between an I've Got Mine segment and The Left Behinds." Timothy Egan, Medicare, Paul Ryan, Columns http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110517105333.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TimothyEgan.jpg 20110516030557 Clay Waters Mon, 16 May 2011 15:05:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg penned a story on the marital woes of presidential candidates that vaguely mentions Bill Clinton and ignores John Edwards, yet went into detail on the difficulties of Republicans Mitch Daniels and Newt Gingrich. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Campaign 2012, Adultery, Double Standards, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, Bias by Omission, John Edwards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110516030557.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20110516013142 Clay Waters Mon, 16 May 2011 13:31:00 -0400 The paper's slanted Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike profiles one of the paper's favorite Republicans, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana: "A Rhodes scholar and a former Navy officer, Mr. Lugar has spent almost all his life in public service. As mayor of Indianapolis, he was credited with saving the city's tax base, and therefore the city, by merging it with nearby suburbs." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Sen. Richard Lugar, Indiana, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110516013142.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20110513033014 Clay Waters Fri, 13 May 2011 15:30:00 -0400 Double standards: Left-wing billionaire George Soros, nonpartisan? A Times photo caption reads "David H. Koch, top, has given generously to a libertarian group, and George Soros has donated millions to other causes." Stephanie Strom, George Soros, David Koch, Double Standards, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110513033014.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/soros.jpg 20110513021830 Clay Waters Fri, 13 May 2011 14:18:00 -0400 Also, Matt Bai reveals his political sympathies in separate profiles of Mario Cuomo and Newt Gingrich, the Times suggests it's "ugly" to celebrate the death of a mass terrorist, and meet the new DNC head: "Ms. Wasserman Schultz has long been one of the '-est' girls: youngest, smartest, funniest, toughest." Manohla Dargis, Matt Bai, Osama bin Laden, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110513021830.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/NYT_Logo_Blue_New.JPG 20110512012617 Clay Waters Thu, 12 May 2011 13:26:00 -0400 Reporter Abby Goodnough sympathetically relays unfiltered anti-war, anti-corporate leftism from Burlington, Vermont over a clean energy proposal by Lockheed Martin. "'I'm deathly afraid of polluting our image with their war machine record,' said Jeffrey C. Frost....Noting the recent flooding from Lake Champlain, which reached record levels last week after an unusually wet winter and spring, Ms. Mulvaney-Stanak added, 'The clock is ticking on climate change all around us, and we need to be pragmatic.'" Abby Goodnough, Burlington, Military, Lockheed-Martin, Global Warming http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110512012617.aspx 20110512120426 Clay Waters Thu, 12 May 2011 00:04:00 -0400 "At night in the family residence, an adviser said, Mr. Obama often surfs the blogs of experts on Arab affairs or regional news sites to get a local flavor for events. He has sounded out prominent journalists like Fareed Zakaria of Time magazine and CNN and Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist at The New York Times, regarding their visits to the region....This deliberate, almost scholarly, approach is in keeping with Mr. Obama's style..." Mark Landler, Barack Obama, Libya, Syria, Tom Friedman http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110512120426.aspx 20110512110043 Clay Waters Thu, 12 May 2011 11:00:00 -0400 Double standard: Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein treats liberal Catholics with respect as they attack Speaker John Boehner on the eve of his speech at the Catholic University of America: "...Mr. Boehner is coming in for a dose of the same kind of harsh criticism previously leveled at some Democrats - including President Obama - who have been honored by Catholic universities: the accusation that his policies violate basic teachings of the Catholic Church." Yet when pro-choice Obama spoke at Notre Dame, conservative protests were dismissed: "Many demonstrators had no affiliation with Notre Dame and were not even Catholic." John Boehner, Barack Obama, Religion, Catholics, Double Standards, Laurie Goodman, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110512110043.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Laurie_Goodstein_2.JPG 20110511015303 Clay Waters Wed, 11 May 2011 13:53:00 -0400 Times political reporter Matt Bai on Newt: "Whatever can Newt Gingrich be thinking?...I mean, let's be unsparing about this: Mr. Gingrich has never been elected to anything outside his old Congressional district in Georgia." Matt Bai on Mario: "...there is something awesome - in the literal sense - about sitting across a desk from Mario Cuomo." Matt Bai, Newt Gingrich, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110511015303.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20110511125234 Clay Waters Wed, 11 May 2011 12:52:00 -0400 While ABC questioned Obama's facts, Times reporter Jackie Calmes offered no challenges: "President Obama came to this border city on Tuesday to argue that he is doing his part to crack down on illegal immigration, and that Republicans must now join him in overhauling the nation's immigration laws for the millions of workers already here illegally." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, Illegal Immigration, Amnesty, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110511125234.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110510023237 Clay Waters Tue, 10 May 2011 14:32:00 -0400 The Times can't get enough of House Speaker John Boehner coming to the aid of a Republican in a special election allegedly tightening due to the G.O.P.'s controversial Medicare plan. But actual victories by Republicans in special and off-year elections bring only yawns and rehashes of liberal conventional wisdom that the wins were meaningless. Raymond Hernandez, Special Election, Campaign 2011, Double Standards, John Boehner http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110510023237.aspx 20110510124728 Clay Waters Tue, 10 May 2011 12:47:00 -0400 Adam Nagourney on California Gov. Jerry Brown: "[He] proceeded to answer the reporters' questions with a display of self-confident humor and a command of facts, history and language that befits a man in the eighth decade of his life, as he likes to describe himself....Eighth decade or not, Brown's mental acuity can be imposing." Adam Nagourney, Jerry Brown, Bias by Omission, California, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110510124728.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20110509041950 Clay Waters Mon, 09 May 2011 16:19:00 -0400 Reporter John Branch praises the "unafraid" New York Rangers hockey star Sean Avery for cutting a clip in support of gay marriage in New York State. But athletes with conservative messages were frowned upon by the paper's politically correct sports columnists. John Branch, Gay Marriage, Hockey, Double Standards, Athletes, Sports, Selena Roberts, Harvey Araton http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110509041950.aspx 20110509023609 Clay Waters Mon, 09 May 2011 14:35:00 -0400 Reporter Carl Hulse somehow finds Democratic advantage in rising gas prices and the exploding deficit: "Senior Democrats believe that tying [high gas prices and rising deficits] will put pressure on Senate Republicans to support the measure or face a difficult time explaining their opposition to voters whose family budgets are being strained by fuel prices." Carl Hulse, Gas Prices, Congress, Taxes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110509023609.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20110506123306 Clay Waters Fri, 06 May 2011 12:33:00 -0400 The headline over Benedict Carey's story: "Celebrating a Death: Ugly, Maybe, but Only Human." Carey writes: "Some Americans celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden loudly, with chanting and frat-party revelry in the streets. Others were appalled - not by the killing, but by the celebrations....The sight of Bin Laden's face on television or a smartphone news feed might have been enough to move people from the sidelines into the streets, to cheer for the home team." Benedict Carey, Osama bin Laden, Revenge http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110506123306.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TimesWatch.jpg 20110506114405 Clay Waters Fri, 06 May 2011 11:44:00 -0400 The Times, always hypersensitive to potential Republican electoral troubles, used Friday's front page to push Democratic prospects for a special election in the suburbs of Buffalo, what the Times termed "one of New York's more conservative regions. Raymond Hernandez, Campaign 2011, Special Elections, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110506114405.aspx 20110505014937 Clay Waters Thu, 05 May 2011 13:49:00 -0400 Thursday's lead editorial: "The killing of Osama bin Laden provoked a host of reactions from Americans: celebration, triumph, relief, closure and renewed grief. One reaction, however, was both cynical and disturbing: crowing by the apologists and practitioners of torture that Bin Laden's death vindicated their immoral and illegal behavior after the Sept. 11 attacks." Osama bin Laden, Editorial, Torture, Guantamo Bay, Bias by Omission, Leon Panetta http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110505014937.aspx 20110505011745 Clay Waters Thu, 05 May 2011 13:17:00 -0400 First sentence of the Times' second paragraph on Obama's rising poll numbers after Osama's capture: "The glow of national pride seemed to rise above partisan politics, as support for the president rose significantly among both Republicans and independents." First sentence of the Times' second paragraph on Bush's numbers after Hussein's capture: "But even in the glow of Mr. Hussein's capture, Americans worry that United States forces will be mired in Iraq for years, are concerned that the attacks on American troops will continue and say that President Bush has no plan to extricate the United States from Iraq..." Polls, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Double Standards, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110505011745.aspx 20110504015955 Clay Waters Wed, 04 May 2011 13:59:00 -0400 The Times sympathizes with poor nonpartisan Harry Reid after Republicans mean-spiritedly insist on their own domestic agenda even after the death of Osama bin Laden: "Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, said he hoped a 'spirit of unity' would prevail, but there was little sign of it Tuesday." Carl Hulse, Jennifer Steinhauer, Osama bin Laden, Congress, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110504015955.aspx 20110504012913 Clay Waters Wed, 04 May 2011 13:28:00 -0400 The Times' overconfident analysis of the available information serves to protect its ideological left flank, ignoring C.I.A. director Leon Panetta's admission that enhanced interrogation, including waterboarding, resulted in vital tips: "...a closer look at prisoner interrogations suggests that the harsh techniques played a small role at most in identifying Bin Laden's trusted courier and exposing his hide-out." Scott Shane, Charle Savage, Terrorism, Osama bin Laden, Torture, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110504012913.aspx 20110503031229 Clay Waters Tue, 03 May 2011 15:12:00 -0400 While praising Obama's "strong and measured" leadership in the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Times editorial page feigns ignorance on how the necessary tips came to be, contradicting its own reporting in the process: "Much will be made of the fact that the original tip came from detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. There is no evidence that good intelligence like this was the result of secret detentions or abuse and torture. Everything suggests the opposite." Guantanamo Bay, Osama bin Laden, Bias by Omission, Barack Obama, Terrorism, 9-11, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110503031229.aspx 20110503012524 Clay Waters Tue, 03 May 2011 13:25:00 -0400 For the second time in five days, a Times reporter has accused an elected Republican politician of employing “incendiary” language, a term the Times rarely if ever uses when talking of statements by radical, inflammatory Democratic politicians like Rev. Al Sharpton. Richard Perez-Pena, Chris Christie, Labeling Bias, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110503012524.aspx 20110502034055 Clay Waters Mon, 02 May 2011 15:40:00 -0400 The Times wasn't so nearly as sanguine about supply and demand when Democrats were attacking President Bush over high gas prices in 2006: "Exxon Mobil, the world's largest oil company, said it earned $10.7 billion in the first three months of the year, and other companies reported similarly robust earnings." Broder didn't mention the billions in taxes paid by Exxon. John Broder, Gas Prices, Double Standards, Barack Obama, George W. Bush http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110502034055.aspx 20110502024248 Clay Waters Mon, 02 May 2011 14:42:00 -0400 Manohla Dargis gets embarrassingly feminist and Freudian describing a scene in a new Western: "I just don't believe that scene where her character pulls out a rifle to protect the wagon train's Indian prisoner - or should I say when she takes possession of the symbolic phallus." Manohla Dargis, A.O. Scott, Movies, Feminism, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110502024248.aspx 20110502023122 Clay Waters Mon, 02 May 2011 14:31:00 -0400 Zernike, whose Tea Party coverage is marked by hostility and accusations of racism, found a source to selectively pluck out links between conspiracy theorizing and conservative values, plus racism: "As [professor Robert Alan] Goldberg writes....'Conspiracy theory draws power by merging with and reinforcing traditional American values and beliefs: a sense of mission, Protestant supremacy, concerns about encroachments on liberty, anti-elitism, maintenance of the racial order, and the sanctity of private property.'" Kate Zernike, Birthers, Double Standards, Racism, Conservatism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110502023122.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20110429025546 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:54:00 -0400 "By explicitly tying advertising to childhood obesity, the government is suggesting there is a darker side to cuddly figures like Cap'n Crunch, the Keebler elves, Ronald McDonald and the movie and television characters used to promote food." William Neuman, Food Police, Children, Advertising, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110429025546.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/captain-crunch.jpg 20110429124858 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:47:00 -0400 Carina Chocano called the movie, based on Ayn Rand's "ham-fisted fable of laissez-faire capitalism," "rushed, amateurish and clumsy," and burdened by its libertarian ideology. Since when has a "ham-fisted" message stopped Times critics from favorable reviews of dubious left-wing material? Movies, Atlas Shrugged, Carina Chocano, Double Standards, Stephen Holden, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110429124858.aspx 20110429123018 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:29:00 -0400 Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer says that Republican Allen West of Florida "is frequently featured on the Fox News Channel and in other conservative settings where he enjoys explaining, reiterating or unleashing any number of incendiary remarks concerning what he often calls 'the other side.'" Jennifer Steinhauer, Allan West, Congress, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110429123018.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20110428020438 Clay Waters Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:04:00 -0400 The Times can't believe it: "The disbelief fairly dripped from Mr. Obama as he stood at the West Wing lectern. People are out of work, American soldiers are dying overseas and here were cameras to record him stating that he was born in a Hawaii hospital." And then the president proved his seriousness by taping an Oprah show and attending three fundraisers. Birth Certificate, Barack Obama, Editorial, Bias by Omission, Gaffes, Racism, Hillary Clinton http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110428020438.aspx 20110428010927 Clay Waters Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:09:00 -0400 A front-page story said Obama's release of his birth certificate "allowed him to cast his political opponents as focused on the trivial at a time when the nation is facing more important issues," while a Times media reporter wrongly suggested the “Birther” theories only erupted after Obama became president among conservatives, when they first emerged during the Democratic primaries from supporters of Obama rival Hillary Clinton. Brian Stelter, Birth Certificate, Barack Obama, Bias by Omission, Gaffes, Michael Shear, Hillary Clinton, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110428010927.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Obama_birth_cert.jpg 20110427024123 Clay Waters Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:41:00 -0400 The Times lead on Monday continues the paper's criticism of Guantanamo Bay: "The murkiness of the secret intelligence - and the fact that interrogators gathered much of their information from the Guantánamo equivalent of jailhouse informers - has been highlighted in news reports and has drawn criticism from human rights groups in recent days." Guantanamo Bay, Charlie Savage, William Glaberson, Andrew Lehren, Wikileaks, Terrorism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110427024123.aspx 20110427115538 Clay Waters Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:55:00 -0400 Too true: "But Krugman's writing voice – sarcastic, data-driven, flecked with just a little bit of maybe-there's-a-bomb-in-the-wastebasket zeal - was perfect for the Internet....There are times, however, when the consequences of Krugman's perspective, the darkness of his view of American politics, come into view. In the health-care-reform debate, he saw evidence of 'racial hate-mongering.'" Paul Krugman, New York Magazine, Rep. Paul Ryan, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110427115538.aspx 20110427090442 Lachlan Markay Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:04:00 -0400 Krugman's hypocrisy: In the debate over entitlement reform, one relatively modest proposal is to raise the retirement age by a couple of years. Krugman said it "shows how disconnected [its proponents] are from the way the other half lives (and dies)." It's only the plutocrats, "the judges - and the politicians, who are similar - who think it's a great idea to raise the retirement age." And, in 1996, Krugman himself. Paul Krugman, Double Standards, Medicare, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110427090442.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110426024132 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:41:00 -0400 NYT foreign policy maven David Sanger was a harsh critic of Bush's foreign policy philosophy, mocking him as an incurious George overseas, making his blunt lack of confidence in Obama's Libya intervention significant. David Sanger, Barack Obama, Libya http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110426024132.aspx 20110426104737 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:47:00 -0400 Birthers vs. Truthers: The Times' double standard on conspiracy theories. While GOP response to a Times poll question on Obama's birthplace has caused anxiety and discussion, the paper has ignored a 2006 poll showing Democrats embracing a far more pernicious conspiracy theory: That Bush either had advance knowledge of the 9-11 attacks or instigated the attacks himself. Birthers, Truthers, Double Standards, Alan Feuer, Polls, Donald Trump, Charles Blow, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110426104737.aspx 20110426090452 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:51:00 -0400 Thank you for the insight, etiquette columnist: "Teachers are so embattled these days, we should all take a moment to thank them - even the governor of Wisconsin, who wouldn't have gotten where he is without a few good ones." Philip Galanes, Scott Walker, Education http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110426090452.aspx 20110425040415 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:04:00 -0400 Uh, hooray? Austin Considine: "As the tranquil tones of church bells and choirs usher in another Easter Sunday, you may hear stirrings of controversy beneath those sounds - set to the pounding of a Lady Gaga tune. It's no accident that Lady Gaga decided to release the video for her provocative single, 'Judas,' this Easter. From wearing see-through nun habits to suggestively swallowing a rosary, the pop star, who was raised a Catholic, has consistently prodded her faith's strict sexual conventions." Easter Sunday, Religion, Lady Gaga, Gay Rights, Catholic Church, Liz Robbins, Austin Considine, John Leland http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110425040415.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Lady_Gaga.jpg 20110425025049 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:50:00 -0400 Lizette Alvarez gushes over new Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Schultz, aka Superwoman: "With her trademark curls, Ms. Wasserman Schultz has long been one of the '-est' girls: youngest, smartest, funniest, toughest. Her Democratic colleagues extol her fund-raising prowess, her ease on television and her indefatigability, which is legendary among her colleagues." Lizette Alvarez, Florida, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Double Standards, Rick Scott, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110425025049.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Lizette_Alvarez.jpg 20110422023021 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:30:00 -0400 Plus: Pulitzer Prize-winning economics writer David Leonhardt has a brilliant solution to all budget problems: Tax hikes. And "Mr. Obama knows his hoops." Quotes of Note, Mark Bittman, David Leonhardt, Jackie Calmes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110422023021.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/NewYorkTimes-Logo.jpg 20110421025656 Clay Waters Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:56:00 -0400 Crystal Mangum, a name the Times would just as soon forget. The paper buried on B14 the news of murder charges filed against Mangum, the stripper who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006. At the time, the paper adopted her case as a political cause, and a columnist accused the players of "white privilege" even after it was clear they were innocent. Duke Lacrosse, Rape Hoax, Crystal Mangum, Selena Roberts, Duff Wilson, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110421025656.aspx 20110420030908 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:09:00 -0400 Judge Richard Goldstone, author of the notorious Goldstone report that blamed Israel, but not Hamas, for targeting citizens, has personally retracted the report's most incendiary charges. Yet the Times suggests cynicism on the part of Israel, while implying Goldstone was acting in good faith all along. Ethan Bronner, Jennifer Medina, Israel, Richard Goldstone, Goldstone Report, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110420030908.aspx 20110420022118 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:21:00 -0400 Why is the Times celebrating potential Obama 2012 opponent Jon Huntsman Jr., Obama's ambassador to China, whose man fan base are former staffers for fellow conservative-tweaker John McCain? Perhaps because Huntsman suggests his party is out of touch and will need to move toward the center to win national elections (Tea Party, anyone?). Jeff Zeleny, Jon Huntsman Jr., Barack Obama, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110420022118.aspx 20110419025735 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:57:00 -0400 Pulitzer Prize-winning economics writer David Leonhardt's "graceful penetration" of American wallets: He has called on Obama to break his promise not to raise taxes on those making under $250,000 a year, since he considers high taxes necessary in a modern society: “...taxes are supposed to rise as a country grows richer....finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.” At the height of the presidential campaign, he provided candidate Obama cover, calling him a “fiscal conservative." David Leonhardt, Pulitzer Prize, Budget, Taxes, Economics http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110419025735.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/DavidLeonhardt.jpg 20110419015831 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:58:00 -0400 "For Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian pro-Palestinian activist who friends said fought peacefully for justice, the end was as violent as it was incongruous....Mr. Arrigoni had dedicated his life to people he saw as oppressed, beginning his work as an activist right out of college and in recent years writing a blog and a book from Gaza. He was well known in Gaza City for his willingness to take chances to help make his case for the Palestinians." Israel, Vittorio Arrigoni, Fares Akram, Isabel Kershner, Terrorism, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110419015831.aspx 20110419120621 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:06:00 -0400 The Republican Party is fully engaged in a fight "to liberate business and the rich from the inconveniences of oversight and taxes. At first it seemed that only a few freshmen and noisy followers of the Tea Party would support the new extremism....nearly unanimous House Republicans showed just how far their mainstream has been dragged to the right." Editorial, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110419120621.aspx 20110418033010 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:30:00 -0400 Christie's metaphor to reporters about "taking a bat" to a Democratic critic gets a full story in the Times. Yet Democratic pols who talk about "blowing the brains out" of one Republican, or telling another that she is "f***king dead," have been virtually ignored. Richard Perez-Pena, Gov. Chris Christie, Rhetoric, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110418033010.aspx 20110418023731 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:37:00 -0400 Executive Editor Bill Keller: "As editor of The Times, I don't take stands for or against wars, old ones in Iraq or new ones in Libya, lest my opinions be mistaken for the guiding doctrine of our news coverage." Oh really? Here's Keller speaking in 2007: "We have a war going very badly in Iraq, and another one in Afghanistan where our declaration of victory looks very premature." Bill Keller, Arthur Sulzberger, Iraq War, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110418023731.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110418012931 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:29:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes: "For many actual Democrats, Mr. Chambliss remains negatively defined by his 2002 defeat of Senator Max Cleland, a triple-amputee veteran of Vietnam, after a campaign that included an ad picturing Mr. Cleland with Osama bin Laden." Has anyone at the Times actually watched the video? Jackie Calmes, Max Cleland, Gaffes, Budget, Osama bin Laden, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110418012931.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110418012900 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:28:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes: "For many actual Democrats, Mr. Chambliss remains negatively defined by his 2002 defeat of Senator Max Cleland, a triple-amputee veteran of Vietnam, after a campaign that included an ad picturing Mr. Cleland with Osama bin Laden." Has anyone at the Times actually watched the video Jackie Calmes, Max Cleland, Gaffes, Budget, Osama bin Laden http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110418012900.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110415051256 Tim Graham Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:45:00 -0400 The Times mocked FCC fines for profanity on the front page, but is the supportive space for a $100,000 fine against NBA star Kobe Bryant for saying the "gay F-bomb." Kobe Bryant, John Amaechi, Harvey Araton, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110415051256.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/kobe.jpg 20110414015212 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:52:00 -0400 Kristof: "President Obama in his speech on Wednesday confronted a topic that is harder to address seriously in public than sex or flatulence: America needs higher taxes....We need to have a frank national discussion of painful steps ahead, and since I'm not a politician, let me be perfectly clear: raise my taxes!" Nicholas Kristof, Taxes, Libya, Double Standards, R.W. Apple http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110414015212.aspx 20110414014127 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:41:00 -0400 Poor California Gov. Brown: "Gov. Jerry Brown, seeking authorization to ask California voters to extend expiring taxes to avoid more draconian budget cuts....Brown seems more frustrated and perplexed at the intensity of the opposition he faces from Republican legislators, who are refusing to even allow him to go before voters with his tax proposal." The Times has changed its tune since 2009, when it argued that "In California, Democracy Doesn't Pay the Bills." Adam Nagourney, Cailfornia, Budget, Double Standards, Jennifer Steinhauer http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110414014127.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20110414121000 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:10:00 -0400 While GOP attempts at reform of Medicare are eviscerated as 'big Medicare cuts' or a 'shrinking,' the Times greets Obama's proposals with soothing words like 'overhaul' or claims that Obama is merely looking for Medicare 'savings.' Thursday's headline even insisted Medicare and Medicaid would be 'spared.' Medicare, Double Standards, Budget, Barack Obama, Republicans, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110414121000.aspx 20110414115204 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:52:00 -0400 Mike Hale says HBO documentary "Gun Fight" is "an implicit warning about the dangers of unregulated gun ownership and the power and increasingly apocalyptic tone of Second Amendment fundamentalists....There isn't anything new in the film to upset the gun lobby, but there's plenty to depress anyone who thinks that the country would be better off with fewer than its tally of some 250 million guns Mike Hale, Television, Gun Control, "Gun Fight" http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110414115204.aspx 20110413022634 Clay Waters Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:26:00 -0400 David Leonhardt forwards his usual solution to budget woes on Wednesday's front page: "...finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States....If Mr. Obama wins re-election, he could simply refuse to sign any budget-busting tax cut for the rich - who, after all, have received much larger pretax raises than any other income group in recent years and have also had their tax rates fall more." David Leonhardt, Budget, Taxes, Economics, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110413022634.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/DavidLeonhardt.jpg 20110413015721 Clay Waters Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:57:00 -0400 Tracking conservative figures who support Ivory Coast's dictator, Mark Oppenheimer unearths “A secretive evangelical Christian organization that some say has a right-wing agenda.” Meanwhile, the Times has skipped stories on left-wing congressman supporting left-wing dictators. Mark Oppenheimer, Labeling Bias, Double Standards, Dictators, Laurent Gbagbo, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110413015721.aspx 20110412020651 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:06:00 -0400 The New York Times vs. any and all spending cuts: "But with the rise of the Tea Party and with anti-earmark, budget-cutting fervor gripping the nation's capital, little of that sentiment is being expressed today, especially by Republicans." Katharine Seelye, Kentucky, Federal Budget, Public Radio, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110412020651.aspx 20110412123657 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:37:00 -0400 Washington, D.C., a victim of Republican "tinkering": "But for this city, which raises $5 billion in tax revenue each year but does not have the final say over how to spend it, the compromise - which restores a ban on the use of local taxpayer money for abortions - served as a bitter reminder of its powerlessness....Republican lawmakers say they tinker mostly because they can." Sabrina Tavernise, D.C. Statehood, Abortion http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110412123657.aspx 20110412120424 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:04:00 -0400 Adam Nagourney: "That once-obscure gathering became a target in the budget battle a world away in Washington last week, employed by conservatives as a symbol of fiscal waste...setting off a conflagration of conservative scorn....the amount of taxpayer money going to the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, which has met since 1985, is someplace between small and minuscule....Yet no matter. The Cowboy Poetry Gathering has been mocked by Sarah Palin on Twitter, most recently on Friday, and on Rush Limbaugh's show." Adam Nagourney, Cowboy Poetry, Nevada, Budget, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110412120424.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20110412103854 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:38:00 -0400 Matt Bai, chief political correspondent for the Times Magazine: "If you were a kid in the Northeast during the 1980s, as I was, there is something awesome - in the literal sense - about sitting across a desk from Mario Cuomo....the anti-Reagan, a powerful and resonant voice of dissent in the age of 'Top Gun' and Alex P. Keaton. Cuomo, Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson were the three titans of the day who seemed to possess the defiance needed to rescue liberalism from obsolescence." Matt Bai, Mario Cuomo, Liberalism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110412103854.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20110411020236 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:02:00 -0400 In Jackie Calmes' telling, President Obama will find harmless "savings" in Medicare, while the GOP threatens to "shrink" the entitlement: "The Republican plan includes a shrinking of Medicare and Medicaid and trillions of dollars in tax cuts...Mr. Obama, by contrast, envisions a more comprehensive plan that would include tax increases for the richest taxpayers, cuts to military spending, savings in Medicare and Medicaid..." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110411020236.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110411120711 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:07:00 -0400 Reporter Jeff Zeleny claims Obama has shifted to the center after the 2010 Democratic wipeout. But previously Zeleny insisted Obama had always been a pragmatic centrist. If he suspected it was just an act, why didn't he say so before? Jeff Zeleny, Barack Obama, Government Shutdown, Peter Baker, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110411120711.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Zeleny.jpg 20110411114918 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:49:00 -0400 Liberal journalist and confirmed Bush-hater Jonathan Chait sounds like an unsophisticated conspiracist in questioning why the GOP is sure to nominate a "dweeb" to run against Obama: "Meeting in their K Street offices and communicating through organs like George Will's column and National Review, the main financers and organizers settle upon a useful frontman, a reliable vessel for the party's agenda who - and this is the crucial part - is blessed with the requisite political talent." Jonathan Chait, Magazine, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110411114918.aspx 20110411110620 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:06:00 -0400 For Michael Shear, "vocal conservatives," "religious conservatives" abound in the Republican Party, but liberals are almost nowhere to be found among Democrats, even ones like Robert Reich and Nancy Pelosi. Michael Powell, Budget Deal, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110411110620.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20110408024907 Clay Waters Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:49:00 -0400 James McKinley Jr.'s "reporting" on the cost-cutting Texas budget sounded a lot like liberal opinion: "It is hard to overstate the budget-cutting furor that has gripped lawmakers in this capital, where the Republicans who control the Legislature and all statewide offices believe voters sent them an iron-clad mandate last year to shrink the size of government....So when the Texas House passed its budget bill last weekend, the depth of the cutbacks necessary for the Republican majority to stick to its promise of no new taxes became clearer. It was not a pretty picture." James McKinley Jr., Texas, Rick Perry, Taxes, Budget http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110408024907.aspx 20110408012853 Clay Waters Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:28:00 -0400 Motoko Rich indulges in government-shutdown cliches: "Among the people anxiously waiting to hear if Congress can reach a budget deal are front desk clerks at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, manufacturing executives whose companies supply goods to federal agencies, bank loan officers who make mortgages guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration and Wall Street analysts who depend on a steady flow of government data." Motoko Rich, Federal Budget, Government Shutdown, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110408012853.aspx 20110408011230 Clay Waters Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:12:00 -0400 While its two rival dailies plastered photos of Obama and Sharpton on their front pages, the Times virtually ignored the dynamic duo, relegating their appearance together to the fourth paragraph of a brief story on page 16. Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Bias by Omission, New York City, Racism, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110408011230.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/obama_sharpton_NYDN.jpg 20110406021539 Clay Waters Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:15:00 -0400 The paper's chief economics writer again called for health-care rationing and higher taxes: "Next, the federal government would raise taxes. As countries have grown richer over time, they have historically paid higher taxes...Affluent Americans, in particular, can afford higher taxes." David Leonhardt, Rep. Paul Ryan, Budget, Taxes, Economics http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110406021539.aspx 20110406125206 Clay Waters Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:52:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes on the risky Republican budget put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan: "By its mix of deep cuts in taxes and domestic spending, and its shrinkage of the American safety net, the plan sets the conservative parameter of the debate over the nation's budget priorities further to the right than at any time since the modern federal government began taking shape nearly eight decades ago." Jackie Calmes, Republicans, Budget, Campaign 2012, Barack Obama, Rep. Paul Ryan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110406125206.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110406124229 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:42:00 -0400 The Media Research Center is holding its annual Gala featuring the “DisHonors Awards of 2011: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporting,” a tongue-in-cheek roast of the past year's worst examples of liberal media bias. MRC Gala http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110406124229.aspx 20110405023033 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:30:00 -0400 The liberal anti-war bona fides of columnist Nicholas Kristof expired with the Bush administration "Mr. Obama and other world leaders did something truly extraordinary, wonderful and rare: they ordered a humanitarian intervention that saved thousands of lives....It would be a fine step toward ending global impunity for atrocities if a SWAT team of Libyans and coalition forces swooped down one day and seized Colonel Qaddafi to face trial in The Hague." Nicholas Kristof, Libya, Iraq, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110405023033.aspx 20110405012547 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:25:00 -0400 Paul Krugman hails the brave leadership of Nancy Pelosi against reforming Social Security, which would have "hurt ordinary Americans to make the nation safe for high-end tax cuts." But why no new insulting names for his favorite "flim-flam man," Republican budget-cutter Rep. Paul Ryan? Paul Krugman, Budget, Rep. Paul Ryan, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110405012547.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110404031755 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:17:00 -0400 The Times' liberal readership rises up in resentment about pictures of handguns for women: "9 accused us of glamorizing violence and guns....4 suggested we were pandering to N.R.A.-member readers...." Gun Control, Sunday Magazine, Gaffes, Handguns, Women http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110404031755.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Purse_Pistols.jpg 20110404021045 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:10:00 -0400 Secret-publishing editor Bill Keller and conservative critic Gabriel Schoenfeld have a surprisingly amicable discussion on where to draw the line on publishing state secrets in the Internet age. Bill Keller, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Terrorism, NSA, SWIFT, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110404021045.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110404012412 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:24:00 -0400 Michael Powell's lead story: "The president and his fellow Democrats pointed to the latest jobs report on Friday...as evidence that their policies, like stimulus spending and the payroll tax cut, were working. All of this, they made clear, could become ammunition in their showdown with House Republicans, who have spoken of cutting deeply into the federal budget and have threatened a government shutdown." Another wishful headline: “Jobs Growth Could Stump Obama's Critics.” Michael Powell, Jackie Calmes, Employment, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110404012412.aspx 20110401035752 Clay Waters Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:57:00 -0400 Reporter Lizette Alvarez waxes moralistic about a small trim in unemployment benefits: "But to some here in Flagler County, where the economy rose higher but fell harder than in any other in Florida in the past decade, the idea of creating jobs by taking away meager benefits from people whose lives have been upended does not seem just." Lizette Alvarez, Florida, Unemployment Benefits http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110401035752.aspx 20110401032009 Clay Waters Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:20:00 -0400 Reporter Thomas Kaplan manages to criticize the "pain" to come from Cuomo's budget cuts without once mentioning the state's $10 billion deficit: "...the consequences of a budget that makes deep cuts in education, health care and other areas will certainly prove severe....Now that lawmakers have passed a $132.5 billion budget, the pain predicted by many advocates may soon become real....Mr. Cuomo has acknowledged the hurt that his budget would cause." Thomas Kaplan, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York State, Budget Cuts, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110401032009.aspx 20110401020158 Clay Waters Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:01:00 -0400 Wealthy Times food writer Mark Bittman revels in his college-level leftism: "Some (or much) of both of these last two stem from unregulated capitalism and greed.Well this is really to call attention to the fact that H.R.1, the budget legislation introduced by the House, cuts aid to the poor and hungry in the United States and abroad, rather than scrapping, say, defense program or increasing taxes on the rich..." Mark Bittman, Food, Budget Cuts, Tax Cuts, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110401020158.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mark_Bittman.JPG 20110331030811 Clay Waters Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:08:00 -0400 In Times land, there are no coincidences and everything is connected, at least when it comes to conservative activism. Reporter Mike McIntire scores another front-page story from a hostile investigation of a conservative-friendly group. Before the 2010 elections he issued a flurry of exposes on groups with Tea Party ties. Mike McIntire, Institute for Liberty, Tea Party, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110331030811.aspx 20110331021922 Clay Waters Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:19:00 -0400 Do wealthy person in America "earn" their money, or is just "claimed" or "received" by them? Catherine Rampell reports: "most of the income gains over the last few decades have gone to the very richest Americans. That means the highest-paid Americans have been claiming a larger and larger share of earnings....As of 2008, about 21 percent of income was received by just 1 percent of earners....The top 1 percent of earners receive about a fifth of all American income." Catherine Rampell, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110331021922.aspx 20110330020705 Clay Waters Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:07:00 -0400 Michael Shear reboots the anti-war candidate as an international affairs expert: "But of the likely top-tier Republican candidates, none can boast any significant experience beyond the borders of the United States....The images of Mr. Obama in the Situation Room or standing shoulder-to-shoulder with world leaders make the Republicans who are campaigning in Iowa look small....A decade after the September 11 attacks, there have been no successful terrorist attacks on his watch." Michael Shear, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Foreign Policy, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110330020705.aspx 20110330122751 Clay Waters Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:27:00 -0400 Bittman, who also writes food-related news stories for the Times, unleashed a vicious attack on fiscal conservatives on Wednesday's op-ed page: "These supposedly deficit-reducing cuts - they'd barely make a dent - will quite literally cause more people to starve to death, go to bed hungry or live more miserably than are doing so now....This is a moral issue; the budget is a moral document....we can sink further into debt and amoral individualism by demonizing and starving the poor. Which side are you on?" Mark Bittman, Food, Budget Cuts, Gaffes, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110330122751.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bittman2.jpg 20110329033737 Clay Waters Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:37:00 -0400 Michael Cooper doesn't approve of Michigan's small cut in unemployment benefits: "Democrats and advocates for the unemployed expressed outrage that such a hard-hit state will become the most miserly when it comes to how long it pays benefits to those who have lost their jobs....Doing so would undo a consensus that emerged in the years after World War II that states should pay up to 26 weeks of unemployment benefits. And it would come as the average length of unemployment has risen." Michael Cooper, Michigan, Unemployment Rates, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110329033737.aspx 20110329020448 Clay Waters Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:04:00 -0400 Why is the Times buttering up Ana Matosantos, a relatively obscure political figure in the California state bureaucracy? Maybe because her pull as state budget director may help push up state taxes: "Ms. Matosantos is going through marathon meetings with [Gov. Jerry] Brown, as well as painstaking, occasionally painful sessions with Senate Republicans, whose votes are needed to get the tax initiative on a June ballot. Without those taxes, Mr. Brown has said, the cuts to the state's budget will need to be even more draconian." Jennifer Medina, California, Budget, Ana Matosantos, Gov. Jerry Brown, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110329020448.aspx 20110329123628 Clay Waters Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:36:00 -0400 After the Times ran what he called a "cringe-making" and "ham-handed article" that some thought blamed an 11-year-old gang rape victim in Texas, Executive Editor Bill Keller ordered up a follow-up story from the same reporter, which appears on Tuesday's front page. James McKinley Jr., Texas, Gang Rape, Bill Keller, Corrections http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110329123628.aspx 20110328020058 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:00:00 -0400 The Times finds "a conservative drift in state capitols" against illegal immigration, but fails to label the ACLU or the Southern Poverty Law Center. Kim Severson, Illegal Immigration, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110328020058.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KimSeverson.jpg 20110328120110 Tim Graham Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:01:00 -0400 Douglas Martin claims sexism on the part of pro-lifers: "The abortion issue, magnified because she was Roman Catholic and a woman, plagued her campaign. Though she opposed the procedure personally, she said, others had the right to choose for themselves. Abortion opponents hounded her at almost every stop with an intensity seldom experienced by male politicians." Geraldine Ferraro, Douglas Martin, Abortion http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110328120110.aspx 20110328104914 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:49:00 -0400 Ignoring fears of mission creep or questions about exit strategies, reporter Kirk Johnson dug up some novel excuses for the public's resistance to Obama's bombing campaign over Libya: Information “overload,” “compassion fatigue,” and the NCAA basketball tournament. Kirk Johnson, Libya, Barack Obama, Polls, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110328104914.aspx 20110328101233 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:12:00 -0400 Executive Editor Bill Keller confessed his paper could be rightfully accused of a liberal outlook, though he managed to make this particular brand of urban cultural liberalism sound appealing: "[Former Public Editor Daniel] Okrent went on to explain that The Times's outlook, steeped in the mores of a big, rambunctious city, tends to be culturally liberal: open-minded, skeptical of dogma, secular, cosmopolitan....Okrent rightly scolded us for sometimes seeming to look down our urban noses at the churchgoing, the gun-owning and the unlettered." Bill Keller, Liberal Bias, Daniel Okrent, Julian Assange, James O'Keefe, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110328101233.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KellerPBS.jpg 20110325035326 Clay Waters Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:53:00 -0400 In 2005, the Times published a four-panel picture on the front page that extended over two columns showing President Bush trying to exit a press conference in Beijing through a locked door...but this week, Obama being locked out of the White House didn't even merit a mention, much less a front-page splash. Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Locked Out, Double Standards, Doors, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110325035326.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/obama-locked-out.JPG 20110325020835 Clay Waters Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:08:00 -0400 Ethan Bronner: "[Professor Shlomo Avineri] added that the extreme right in Israel had always insisted that criticism of Israeli policy was unpatriotic. Now, the extreme right has more power than ever in the country's history, he said, giving its views a greater platform." Ethan Bronner, Israel, J Street, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110325020835.aspx 20110325012553 Clay Waters Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:25:00 -0400 For Times obituary writer Bruce Weber, Communist Angela Davis is merely an "activist and educator," but the late conservative activist Paul Weyrich was "one of the far right's most unbending ideologues." Bruce Weber, Obituaries, Leonard Weinglass, Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Paul Weyrich, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110325012553.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bruce_Weber.jpg 20110324023026 Clay Waters Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:30:00 -0400 Liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof, Libyan war-hawk: "This may be a first for the Arab world: An American airman who bailed out over Libya was rescued from his hiding place in a sheep pen by villagers who hugged him, served him juice and thanked him effusively for bombing their country." Nicholas Kristof, Libya, Iraq, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110324023026.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/NicholasKristof.jpg 20110323125136 Clay Waters Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:51:00 -0400 Chief "Caucus" reporter Michael Shear's loaded language in defense of Obama-care: "A year after President Obama signed his health care law into effect, the two leading Republicans in Congress are making it clear that they do not intend to let up in their assault on the historic measure." Michael Shear, Obama-Care, Health Care, Anniversary http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110323125136.aspx 20110322015547 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:55:00 -0400 In a story about hazards to birds, the Times quotes a biologist who won't make many friends among cat-lovers: "They are like gypsy moths and kudzu - they cause major ecological disruption." Elisabeth Rosenthal, Environment, Cats, Birds http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110322015547.aspx 20110322011330 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:13:00 -0400 The Times looks askance when big food conglomerates fight government regulations on fatty foods - but a fight to feed "hungry" children in America (over 17 million of them?) fosters no journalistic skepticism but is instead swallowed whole. Hunger, Food Insecurity, Elizabeth Olson, NBC, Al Roker, Conagra, Big Food, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110322011330.aspx 20110322103653 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:36:00 -0400 Andrea Elliott's worthwhile cover story on a conservative Muslim working against radicals contains some wild overstatement: "Muslims have grown up in a newly hostile country, with mounting opposition to the construction of mosques, a national movement seeking to ban courts from consulting shariah, or Islamic law, and rising hate crimes against Muslims." Andrea Elliott, Muslims, Yasir Qadhi, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110322103653.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/AndreaElliott.jpg 20110321032436 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:24:00 -0400 Reporter David Halbfinger flatters Democratic Rep. Steve Israel as an "unassuming centrist" up to the task of winning back the House for the Democrats and lets Israel squeeze in some talking points: "He points to 14 Republican incumbents in districts that were carried by John Kerry in 2004, each of whom just voted to cut money for family planning." David Halbfinger, Rep. Steve Israel, Chris Christie, Double Standards, Congress, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110321032436.aspx 20110321022810 Tim Graham Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:28:00 -0400 It keeps getting harder to claim the whole sage of "outed" CIA agent Valerie Plame wasn't a bonanza of wealth and fame, but the Plame-loving Times is casting it as a blow for feminism. The female spy is always sexy, emerging from the surf in a bikini. Reporter Julie Bosman added: "Who better to roll her eyes at it all than Valerie Plame, the real-life glamorous former CIA operative?" Valerie Plame, Julie Bosman http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110321022810.aspx 20110321125552 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:56:00 -0400 Obama, the savior of Latin America: "But Mr. Obama, on the second day of a five-day tour of Latin America, once again seemed to sidestep mentioning his own racial background in appearances here, even as Brazilians who gathered at a plaza trying to catch a glimpse of him said that he had inspired millions in this country because of his African heritage....Opinion polls in the region show that Mr. Obama's election has also improved Latin American countries' opinion of the United States as a whole." He had previously brought hope to the slums of Paris. Jackie Calmes, Alexei Barrionuevo, Barack Obama, Brazil, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110321125552.aspx 20110321122619 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:26:00 -0400 As missiles fall in Libya, Michael Shear reports on another kind of shooting prowess: "Being president is an ego trip. So you would have thought President Obama wouldn't need to add to his bragging rights. But Mr. Obama's N.C.A.A. men's basketball bracket stands - for the moment, anyway - as one of the best out there." Michael Shear, Barack Obama, NCAA Picks, ESPN http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110321122619.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20110318011952 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:19:00 -0400 Jeremy Peters reports on his own paper: "No American news organization as large as The Times has tried to put its content behind a pay wall after allowing unrestricted access. The move is being closely watched by anxious publishers, which have warily embraced the Web and struggled with how to turn online journalism into a profitable business." Jeremy Peters, Paywall http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110318011952.aspx 20110318125422 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:54:00 -0400 Michael Shear dismisses the NPR debate: "...the closer that Washington moves toward full-blown election season, the greater appetite both sides will have for small, symbolic issues that appeal to their base voters....The NPR debate is a classic case. The public radio organization gets a trivial amount of money from the federal government, about $5.4 million a year." Michael Shear, National Public Radio, Congress, Budget, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110318125422.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Michael_Shear.JPG 20110318112110 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:21:00 -0400 The Times relaunches its Sunday magazine with a hagiographic profile of terrorist helper Lori Berenson in Peru. Plus Paul Krugman's persecution fantasies of Wisconsin, and why we won't miss retiring columnist Frank Rich. And "Is Wisconsin the Tunisia of collective bargaining rights?" Lori Berenson, Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110318112110.aspx 20110317022900 Clay Waters Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:29:00 -0400 In his farewell column, Frank Rich admitted the job “can push you to have stronger opinions than you actually have, or contrived opinions about subjects you may not care deeply about, or to run roughshod over nuance to reach an unambiguous conclusion. Believe it or not, an opinion writer can sometimes get sick of his own voice.” He's not the only one. Times Watch has a collection of some of Rich's liberal lowlights, from nonsensical to nasty. Frank Rich, Retirement, Liberal Bias, Passion of the Christ, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110317022900.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20110317115959 Clay Waters Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:00:00 -0400 Jeremy Peters praises Jay Carney, new White House press secretary and former Time magazine reporter: "Jay Carney has never been much of a partisan. His former colleagues at Time never knew which politicians he voted for." But Carney's actual reporting for Time betrayed hostility toward conservatives. Jeremy Peters, Jay Carney, Barack Obama, Liberal Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110317115959.aspx 20110316024035 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:40:00 -0400 FBI informant Brandon Darby filed suit against the Times last week after the paper falsely accused him of having encouraged a firebombing of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul. The Times finally ran a correction to its February 23 article, but the false text remains online. Brandon Darby, Lawsuit, Corrections, FBI, Terrorism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110316024035.aspx 20110316013807 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:38:00 -0400 Liberal sob stories and left-wing income statistics from Sabrina Tavernise in defense of unionized public-sector workers in Ohio: "Now, as Ohio's legislature moves toward final approval of a bill that would chip away at public-sector unions, those workers say they see it as the opening bell in a race to the bottom. At stake, they say, is what little they have that makes them middle class....Wages at the bottom of the labor market have stagnated since 1970, with inflation gobbling up gains made over the years." Sabrina Tavernise, Public-Sector Unions, Ohio, Economy, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110316013807.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/taverniseRose.jpg 20110315033720 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:37:00 -0400 After writing on how everything is global warming's fault, Elisabeth Rosenthal faults liberals for talking a good game on the environment, until things get too close: "Park Slope, Brooklyn. Cape Cod, Mass. Berkeley, Calif. Three famously progressive places, right? The yin to the Tea Party yang. But just try putting a bike lane or some wind turbines in their lines of sight. And the karma can get very different." Elisabeth Rosenthal, Global Warming, Climate Change, NIMBY, Liberals, Environment, Windmills, Bike Lanes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110315033720.aspx 20110315023207 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:32:00 -0400 The paper's media columnist faults NPR's executives while blessings its reporting, and points to the necessity of publicly funded journalism: "I'll just skip the joke about a News Corporation executive talking about journalistic independence and point out that the invisible hand is not going to send a lot of reporters to far-flung conflicts or to cover hard news that is the opposite of sexy." David Carr, National Public Radio, Rupert Murdoch http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110315023207.aspx 20110315014800 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:48:00 -0400 Times media reporter Jeremy Peters falsely implies that journalistic stunts like the one conservative James O'Keefe pulled against liberal National Public Radio were rare in the mainstream media and sniffed: "Defensible or not, use of the tactics seems to be growing" among political activists. Jeremy Peters, NPR, Hidden Camera, Bias by Omission, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110315014800.aspx 20110314031123 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:11:00 -0400 Times reporters are determined to wring victory out of the defeat by public-sector unions in Wisconsin, celebrating the filibustering Democratic politicians returning as "folk heroes" and the "positive energy" at the defeat rally (never mind those "dead man" chalk outlines with Gov. Walker's name). It's not quite how the paper portrayed Obama's health-care win that turned into crushing electoral defeat in 2010. Kate Zernike, Monica Davey, A.G. Sulzberger, Michael Shear, Wisconsin, Protests,, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110314031123.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20110314015151 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:51:00 -0400 After Executive Editor Bill Keller's latest attack on Fox News, Howard Kurtz inaccurately stated that “The executive editor of The New York Times doesn't generally engage in trashing other news organizations.” In fact, Keller has eagerly and consistently attacked his rivals at Fox since he replaced Howell Raines (another attacker) as executive editor in 2003. Bill Keller, Fox News, Howell Raines http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110314015151.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110311021740 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:17:00 -0400 The Times spun the defeat of public-sector unions in Wisconsin by Gov. Scott Walker as a long-term political victory for Democrats: “Wisconsin Curbs Public Unions, But Democrats Predict Backlash" and predicted he had awoken “the sleeping giant” of labor unions. Yet after the more unpopular Obama-care passed, the Times warned of the "drawbacks" of Republican opposition. Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker, Unions, Campaign 2012, Double Standards, Adam Nagourney, Michael Shear, A. G. Sulzberger, Monica Davey, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110311021740.aspx 20110311011129 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:11:00 -0400 Time Magazine: "Being a conservative voice in what is typically considered to be a more liberal newspaper than not, how exactly does that frame affect what you write?" Columnist David Brooks: "It's mostly the readers I think that are more liberal than the journalists." David Brooks, Time Magazine, Interview, Liberal Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110311011129.aspx 20110311121230 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:12:00 -0400 Columnist Nicholas Kristof took the prize for most inane comment on Rep. Peter King's hearings: "I'm sure that at mosques around this country, especially the more radical mosques, this is going to be seen as one more evidence that people are picking on us." Doesn't the existence of "radical mosques" in itself justify the hearings? Peter King, Muslim Hearings, CAIR, Bias by Omission, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Alessandra Stanley, Laurie Goodstein, Nicholas Kristof, Scott Shane, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110311121230.aspx 20110310031814 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:18:00 -0400 From the coffee crop in Colombia, to glaciers in Bolivia, homes in America, and ski resorts and golf courses...for reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal, seemingly everything can be blamed on "climate change." Elisabeth Rosenthal, Global Warming, Climate Change, Coffee, Colombia, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110310031814.aspx 20110310013216 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:32:00 -0400 Higher gas prices? No worries. In 2011, with gas at $3.57 a gallon, "the American economy may be better prepared for higher fuel costs....economists say the spike is unlikely to derail the rebound unless prices rise a lot further." But in 2005 under Bush, with gas at $2.55, "sharp rises in oil and gas prices have coincided with the onsets of recessions over the last 25 years." Jad Mouawad, Nick Bunkley, Gasoline Prices, Double Standard, Economy, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110310013216.aspx 20110310125756 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:57:00 -0400 More front-page sniping at Gov. Chris Christie by Richard Perez-Pena: "Statements like those are at the core of Gov. Chris Christie's campaign to cut state spending by getting tougher on unions. They are not, however, accurate." Richard Perez-Pena, Gov. Chris Christie, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110310125756.aspx 20110309011756 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:17:00 -0400 A hostile profile of conservative Florida Gov. Rick Scott faults him for not being liked by his own party. Yet the Times celebrated liberal Republican Gov. Charlie Crist for the same thing: "Rick Scott...vowed during his campaign to run the troubled state like a corporate chief executive (which he was) and not a politician (which he proudly says he is not). And now it has become a problem, some of his fellow Republicans say....Republican lawmakers in Florida were hoping for a smoother transition. Instead, they say, they got top-down management from a political novice." Gov. Rick Scott, Lizette Alvarez, Gary Fineout, Gov. Charlie Crist, Double Standards, Florida, Campaign 2010 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110309011756.aspx 20110309125356 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:53:00 -0400 Obama's reversal on closing Guantanamo Bay made the front of Tuesday's Washington Post but was buried on A19 of the Times, and was larded with strangely sympathetic left-wing quotes: "Still, some lawyers for detainees said the executive order might speed the release of men imprisoned for years without trial, either after a review, a trial or a plea agreement." Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay, Reversal, Scott Shane, Mark Landler http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110309125356.aspx 20110309120258 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:02:00 -0400 From the obituary for violent Communist revolutionary Che Guevara's traveling companion, by reporter Victoria Burnett: "They became close friends, sharing an intellectual curiosity, a mischievous sense of humor and a restive desire to explore their continent." Che Guevara, Victoria Burnett, Alberto Granado Jiménez, Obituary, Communism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110309120258.aspx 20110308024622 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:46:00 -0400 Times again skips Tawana Brawley and "white interlopers" to celebrate Sharpton at leisure: "Unmistakable and formidable, if a physically reduced version of the man he once was, the Rev. Al Sharpton, 56, uses Sundays as his 'half-down day.' It's a workday, for sure - including two hourlong radio broadcasts - but it also offers chances for decompression, companionship, exercise, sending texts and posting on Twitter." Al Sharpton, David Halbfinger, Deborah Solomon http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110308024622.aspx 20110308021444 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:14:00 -0400 Reporter Laurie Goodstein attacks Brigitte Gabriel, an opponent of radical Islam, on Tuesday's front page: "She presents a portrait of Islam so thoroughly bent on destruction and domination that it is unrecognizable to those who study or practice the religion....some of those who work in counterterrorism say that speakers like Ms. Gabriel are spreading distortion and fear, and are doing the country a disservice by failing to make distinctions between Muslims who are potentially dangerous and those who are not." Brigitte Gabriel, Laurie Goodstein, Deborah Solomon, Religion, Islam, Terrorism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110308021444.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Laurie_Goodstein_2.JPG 20110308105710 Kyle Drennen Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:57:00 -0400 Friedman denounced the proposed White House plan to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to curb rising gas prices: "That would rank in my top five worst ideas of 2011 so far....one thing we should finally be doing is using this opportunity to have a credible energy policy that begins to reduce our addiction to oil." Friedman's idea of "credible energy policy" was to force Americans to continue to pay higher gas prices through a gas tax. Tom Friedman, Gas Tax, Columns http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110308105710.aspx 20110307032429 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:24:00 -0400 Jennifer Steinhauer's labeling disparity on the Defense of Marriage Act: "Representative Raúl Labrador, a conservative freshman from Idaho, has not mentioned the issue, said Phil Hardy, his spokesman." vs. "The minority leader, Nancy Pelosi of California..." Jennifer Steinhauer, DOMA, Congress, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110307032429.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20110307022434 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:24:00 -0400 Kirk Johnson's reporting is not known for its sympathy toward business or conservatives. But he made a fine free-market argument in support of a liberal priority in Montana - medical marijuana: "Economic ripples or entanglements extend in every direction, business people like the Schmidts say - gardening supply companies where marijuana growers are buying equipment, mainstream bakeries that are contracting for pot-laced pastries, and even the state's biggest utility, NorthWestern Energy, which is seeing a surge in electricity use by the new factories." Kirk Johnson, Medical Marijuana, Montana, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110307022434.aspx 20110307013613 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:36:00 -0400 Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike covers the left-wing protests in Madison, but retains her hostility toward the conservative movement, claiming a $43,000 donation made the Koch brothers "large donors" to Gov. Scott Walker's campaign. "David H. and Charles G. Koch, the billionaire brothers behind the energy and manufacturing conglomerate that bears their name, have been large donors to Mr. Walker in Wisconsin....Mr. Walker has called this a fight to balance the budget. But with the unions already agreeing to his financial concessions, it looks more like an ideological one." Kate Zernike, Wisconsin, Protests, Koch Brothers http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110307013613.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20110304032529 Clay Waters Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:25:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes tackles the tough stories: "Nonetheless, staff members describe a happier workplace with clearer lines of authority and less fear of being chided by the often brusque Mr. Emanuel. Responsibility for communications and messaging has been consolidated. Cabinet members who were often overlooked in the past say they are more in the loop. With Mr. Daley taking the lead, there is more outreach to Republicans and business groups." Jackie Calmes, Obama White House, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110304032529.aspx 20110304013617 Clay Waters Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:36:00 -0400 The new editor-in-chief for the Sunday Magazine praises his first cover story on terrorist collaborator Lori Berenson with embarrassingly simplistic misinformation: "...a New Yorker who moved to Latin America as a young adult, got mixed up in revolutionary politics in Peru and was promptly thrown in prison....the story of a wounded but resilient woman struggling to sort out a place for herself in the world. It is in every way a classic Times Magazine story." Hugo Lindgren, Lori Berenson, Sunday Magazine, Terrorism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110304013617.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hugo_Lindgren.png 20110303032053 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:20:00 -0400 For the third time in 10 months the Times sympathizes for Manhattanite girl turned Peruvian terrorist helper Lori Berenson, this time with a magazine portrait by novelist Jennifer Egan: "Such an outpouring of rage at a 40-year-old woman, mother to a toddler, who was convicted in her mid-20s of abetting a terrorist plot that never took place...." Jennifer Egan, Lori Berenson, Peru, Terrorism, Magazine, Maoism, M.R.T.A., Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110303032053.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/06berenson-layout-popup.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x340 pixels).png 20110303010459 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:05:00 -0400 The lead sentence to Adam Liptak's lead story today on the free-speech victory for the funeral picketers of Westboro: "The First Amendment protects hateful protests at military funerals, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in an 8-to-1 decision." Liptak's lead sentence in his lead story last year on the free-speech victory for corporations: "Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections." Adam Liptak, Free Speech, Supreme Court, Westboro Baptist Church, Double Standards, New York Times Company, Citizens United, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110303010459.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/AdamLiptak.jpg 20110302024404 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:44:00 -0400 Reporter Michael Shear's initial story on the Obama-was-raised-in-Kenya controversy, "Huckabee Questions Obama's Birth Certificate," becomes the more accurate "Huckabee Talks, Incorrectly, Of Obama's Childhood" in print. But Shear is still leaving out context. Michael Shear, Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, Birth Certificate, Gaffes, Kenya, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110302024404.aspx 20110302010028 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:00:00 -0400 Michael Cooper's story is based on report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal group and popular source for the Times that the paper consistently fails to properly label ideologically. Nowhere in the ten-paragraph story does the Times quote an opposing source making a case for the tax break on equipment purchases as a potential job creator. Michael Cooper, Tax Cuts, Deductions, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110302010028.aspx 20110301021823 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:18:00 -0400 Another Times story quotes a former Voice editor comparing veteran liberal muckraker Wayne Barrett, who helped Sen. Schumer beat Republican Sen. Al D'Amato in 1998, as the journalistic equivalent of Joe DiMaggio. Richard Perez-Pena, Wayne Barrett, Village Voice http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110301021823.aspx 20110301124745 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:47:00 -0400 Clyde Haberman hits a hypocritical decision by New York City officials to take down a provocative pro-life billboard: "New York, never at a loss for self-congratulatory words, regards itself as the most tolerant of cities, a place where one may express any thought freely. It is true. In New York, one may articulate any idea whatsoever - as long as that idea parallels popular opinion. Stray too far from generally accepted wisdom, though, and you are asking for trouble." Clyde Haberman, Abortion Billboards, New York City, Columns http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110301124745.aspx 20110301111255 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:12:00 -0400 According to the paper's veteran Sunday magazine columnist, Bush was an incompetent and insane president who lied us into war, socialism is a good thing, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates should have sued the police, and no one can work for a tobacco company in good conscience. Randy Cohen, Ethicist Columnist,Retirement http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110301111255.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Randy_Cohen_new.jpg 20110228020019 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:00:00 -0400 The Times took pains to emphasize the nonviolent nature of the ongoing pro-union protests over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's plan to limit collective bargaining for government unions: "Although the Wisconsin protests have been peaceful, they have also reflected a strong personal dislike for Mr. Walker." You can say that again! Richard Oppel, Wisconsin, Union Protests, Bias by Omission, Mike Tobin, Fox News, Gov. Scott Walker, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110228020019.aspx 20110228111336 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:13:00 -0400 Talking to the University of Oklahoma's student newspaper, did Paul Krugman, respected economist turned partisan liberal columnist, really suggest American college students start rioting about public spending cuts like they did in Britain and France? "Well, you know, maybe we could learn a little bit from British students or French students who actually demonstrated against these cuts." Paul Krugman, Oklahoma, Budget Cuts, Riots, England, France, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110228111336.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110225112403 Clay Waters Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:24:00 -0400 The Times just keeps jabbing at New Jersey's budget-cutting Gov. Chris Christie. Reporter Richard Perez-Pena: "Taking credit for leading the way on fiscal austerity under such conditions, they said, is a bit like claiming to be the first to start swimming when a flood sweeps through town." Gov. Chris Christie, Richard Perez-Pena, Matt Bai, Welfare Queens, Magazine http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110225112403.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Christie.jpg 20110225102141 Clay Waters Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:21:00 -0400 Columnist Paul Krugman uses Naomi Klein's anti-capitalist paranoia tome "The Shock Doctrine" to criticize Gov. Scott Walker's move to get public-sector unions to pay a larger share of their pensions and health care: "From Chile in the 1970s onward, she suggested, right-wing ideologues have exploited crises to push through an agenda that has nothing to do with resolving those crises, and everything to do with imposing their vision of a harsher, more unequal, less democratic society. Which brings us to Wisconsin 2011, where the shock doctrine is on full display." Paul Krugman, Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker, Naomi Klein, "The Shock Doctrine", Unions, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110225102141.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110224034645 Clay Waters Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:46:00 -0400 A Nexis search indicates Times reporters have used “hard-right” five times in the last two years, and the paper's liberal columnist employ it regularly. By contrast, no Times reporter, columnist, or editorial writer has used the term “hard-left” to describe an American political figure or movement a single time in the last two years. Sabrina Tavernise, A.G. Sulzberger, John Collins Rudolf, Labeling Bias. Tea Party, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110224034645.aspx 20110224125645 Clay Waters Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:56:00 -0400 Phoenix bureau chief Marc Lacey shows his usual fair-and-balanced outlook on immigration enforcement: "Despite boycotts and accusations that the state has become a haven of intolerance, Arizona won plaudits last year from immigration hardliners across the country." Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Marc Lacey http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110224125645.aspx 20110224123024 Clay Waters Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:30:00 -0400 The paper greeted the news the Obama administration had decided the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional with big lead-story play and predictable labeling imbalance, presenting supporters of Obama's decision as “gay rights advocates” while opponents were “conservatives” or coming “from the right." Defense of Marriage Act, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Charlie Savage, Judiciary, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110224123024.aspx 20110223025024 Clay Waters Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:50:00 -0400 Reporter David Halbfinger relays what unions find "most galling" about the "pugnacious and boastful" Gov. Christie's budget proposals. He displayed far more empathy toward Connecticut's Democratic governor in a similar budget story a week ago. David Halbfinger, Connecticut, New Jersey, Dannel Malloy, Chris Christie, Budget, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110223025024.aspx 20110223122815 Clay Waters Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:28:00 -0400 Over the years columnist Tom Friedman has written on the costs of the Iraq war, the federal deficit, the threat of global warming, and the uprisings in the Arab world, disparate problems that share a simple solution: A $1-a-gallon hike in the gas tax. Tom Friedman, Gas Tax, Columns, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110223122815.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_Rose_11_09_10.JPG 20110223114137 Clay Waters Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:41:00 -0400 Education columnist Michael Winerip lauds a Dream Act activist, just the latest in a long history of support for the liberal legislation, that would provide amnesty for illegal students: "Isabel Castillo was counting on the Dream Act, and when the Dream Act was defeated in December, it upended her dreams." Dream Act, Michael Winerip, Illegal Immigration http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110223114137.aspx 20110222022103 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:21:00 -0400 Paul Krugman on Wisconsin: "What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin - and eventually, America - less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style oligarchy....if America has become more oligarchic and less democratic over the last 30 years - which it has - that's to an important extent due to the decline of private-sector unions." Paul Krugman, Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110222022103.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110222014726 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:47:00 -0400 Joining the rest of the media in challenging prominent Republicans to denounce the "birthers," the Times overstates the facts in Palin's case. And where was the paper's outrage against conspiracy theories when it came to vicious rumors about Palin's son Trig? Sarah Palin, Birthers, Trig Palin, Double Standards, Editorial, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110222014726.aspx 20110222115707 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:57:00 -0400 Double standards on outside political groups in Madison: Americans for Prosperity "created and financed in part by the secretive billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch." Yet "officials and union leaders said, reports of the involvement of the Democratic National Committee - specifically Organizing for America, the grass-roots network born of Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign - were overblown to start with and were being inflated by Republicans sensing political advantage." Eric Lipton, Jackie Calmes, Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker, Koch Brothers http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110222115707.aspx 20110221034921 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:49:00 -0400 Or maybe not so "inevitable" a question: "The parallels raise the inevitable question: Is Wisconsin the Tunisia of collective bargaining rights?" The front-page story also ignored the hateful signs carried by some pro-union protesters in Wisconsin. Wisconsin, Michael Cooper, Katharine Seelye, Gaffes, Unions, Gov. Scott Walker, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110221034921.aspx 20110221030914 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:09:00 -0400 Adam Nagourney writes his favorite kind of story, about backlash against Republican overreaching: "But in the view of officials from both major political parties, Republicans may be risking the same kind of electoral backlash Democrats suffered after they were perceived as overreaching. Public surveys suggest that most voters do not share the Republicans' fervor for the deep cuts adopted by the House, or for drastically slashing the power of public-sector unions. And independent voters have historically been averse to displays of political partisanship that have been played out over the last week." Adam Nagourney, Mandate, Congress, Campaign 2010, Double Standards, Scott Walker, Wisconsin http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110221030914.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20110221021341 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:13:00 -0400 Frank Rich dredges up the Tucson smear: "Six weeks after that horrific day in Tucson, America has half-forgotten its violent debate over the power of violent speech to incite violence...In the aftermath of President Obama's Tucson sermon, civility has had a mini-restoration in Washington. And some of the most combative national figures in our politics have been losing altitude ever since, much as they did after Bill Clinton's oratorical response to the inferno of Oklahoma City." Who is he talking about? Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, of course. Frank Rich, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Tucson Shooting http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110221021341.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20110218024412 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:44:00 -0400 Plus the "advocates for women's health" at Planned Parenthood, and Bill Keller tries his hand at stand up. Bill Keller, Marvin Kalb, Chris Christie http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110218024412.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110218015029 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:50:00 -0400 Eric Eckholm's idea of balanced reporting on abortion provider Planned Parenthood: "Now, in a surprise step that has set off deep alarm among advocates for women's health, the newly conservative House of Representatives has proposed cutting the entire $317 million program of aid for family planning..." Erik Eckholm, Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Labeling Bias, Lila Rose, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110218015029.aspx 20110218112021 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:20:00 -0400 Hypocritical concern for Thomas's reputation: "When the Supreme Court hears arguments next week, it will mark the fifth anniversary of Justice Clarence Thomas's silence during oral argument - unless he chooses to re-enter the give-and-take. We hope he will....By engaging with lawyers for both sides in cases and showing open-mindedness in exchanges with them, he would show his dedication to the court's impartiality and to its integrity as an institution." Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court, Common Cause, Editorial, Racism, Koch Brothers, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110218112021.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Thomas_NYT.jpg 20110217033115 Clay Waters Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:31:00 -0400 Another Times writer gives Obama a "Yes, but," pass on his lack of budgetary leadership: "Mr. Obama would seem to be taking the more balanced approach. True, Mr. Obama didn't act on his own debt panel's recommendation in the budget, and his proposed $1.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade doesn't amount to a dent in the long-term problem, or even really a ding. But..." Matt Bai, Barack Obama, Republicans, Congess, Budget http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110217033115.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20110217015822 Clay Waters Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:58:00 -0400 More of the sober, substantive commentary we've come to expect from the nation's leading newspaper: "But that wasn't enough for [Speaker John Boehner's] fanatical freshmen, who demanded that it be cut by $61 billion, destroying vital government programs with gleeful abandon." Carl Hulse, Editorial, John Boehner, Spending Cuts, Budget, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110217015822.aspx 20110216021952 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:19:00 -0400 Reporter Michael Shear gets carried away in praise of John Sweeney, former head of the AFL-CIO, and highly partisan Democrat. John Sweeney, AFL-CIO, Presieential Medal of Freedom, George H.W. Bush, Rep. John Lewis, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110216021952.aspx 20110216011104 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:11:00 -0400 David Halbfinger gushes over Connecticut's new Democratic governor, in contrast with the "blustery and bellicose" budget-slasher Chris Christie of neighboring New Jersey: "And as he closes a 20 percent budget deficit, he spends much of his energy finding ways to spare the most vulnerable....he has set out to prove that even in an age of austerity one can govern as a defender of the social safety net....He also promised not to gut education or shift the costs of services on to cities and towns." David Halbfinger, Connecticut, New Jersey, Dannel Malloy, Chris Christie, Budget http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110216011104.aspx 20110215031950 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:19:00 -0400 News you can use: "The anniversary will probably be observed in silence. A week from Tuesday, when the Supreme Court returns from its midwinter break and hears arguments in two criminal cases, it will have been five years since Justice Clarence Thomas has spoken during a court argument." Adam Liptak, Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court, Silence, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110215031950.aspx 20110215015455 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:54:00 -0400 The "advocacy group" battling "conservatives" and Justice Clarence Thomas: "...Justice Thomas reported that the Federalist Society, a prominent conservative legal group, had reimbursed him an undisclosed amount for four days of “transportation, meals and accommodations” over the weekend of the retreat. The event is organized by Charles and David Koch, brothers who have used millions of dollars from the energy conglomerate they run in Wichita, Kan., to finance conservative causes." Eric Lichtblau, Koch Brothers, Protests, Common Cause, Labeling Bias, Clarence Thomas, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110215015455.aspx 20110215112404 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:24:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes again suggests Obama's budget for fiscal year 2012 threaded the needle just right between spending cuts and increases, downplaying his lack of leadership on deficit-cutting: "With this year's deficit projected to hit a record, $1.6 trillion, he laid out a path for bringing down annual deficits to more sustainable levels over the rest of the decade." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, 2012 Budget, Double Standards, George W. Bush http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110215112404.aspx 20110214024916 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:49:00 -0400 Reporter Jackie Calmes defends Obama's lack of budgetary leadership as clever strategy: "...President Obama has not opted for the bold, comprehensive approach to reining in the fast-growing federal debt....[reflecting] a White House calculation: that 'now' is too soon for the nation's political system....Plenty of people here in both parties, even deficit hawks among nonpartisan budget analysts, agree with that White House logic." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, 2011 Budget http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110214024916.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110214014712 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:47:00 -0400 Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal rushes in where scientific consensus fears to tread: "Global warming is most likely responsible, at least in part, for the rising frequency and severity of extreme weather events - like floods, storms and droughts - since warmer surface temperatures tend to produce more violent weather patterns, scientists say." Elisabeth Rosenthal, Global Warming, Climate Change, Buildings, Weather, Environment http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110214014712.aspx 20110214010700 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:07:00 -0400 Peter Baker's respectful interview with Donald Rumsfeld in the Times Sunday Magazine makes quite a contrast with Deborah Solomon's aggressive and hostile approach toward conservatives like William F. Buckley and Gov. Bobby Jindal. Deborah Solomon, Q&A, Retirement, Peter Baker, Donald Rumsfeld, William F. Buckley, Al Sharpton, Double Standards, Bobby Jindal, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110214010700.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/deborahsolomon.jpg 20110211024111 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:41:00 -0400 Matt Bai warns Republicans from being too angry and "anti-Washington" if they want to get elected in 2012. Didn't it work pretty well in 2010? "The main lesson Republicans might take from this admittedly selective contrast is that chasing the applause of the faithful, even in a party that is more ideologically cohesive, generally gets you only so far. Aspirants at this week's forum can elevate themselves by playing, both rhetorically and substantively, to a base that's virulently anti-Washington and anti-Obama. But the wider primary electorate may judge such stridently partisan candidates to be unelectable." Matt Bai, CPAC, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110211024111.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20110211013254 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:32:00 -0400 Author McGowan is not a boycotter or enemy of the Times, but longs for “a much better version of the Times than is being produced by the current regime.” His book "Gray Lady Down" comes loaded with examples. William McGowan, Gray Lady Down, Books, Review http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110211013254.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gray_Lady_Down.jpg 20110210035625 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:56:00 -0400 The paper's long-time Supreme Court reporter and pro-choice marcher is still keeping up the fight on abortion, decrying racially inflammatory rhetoric, yet lighting into "white activists" for promoting the idea of abortion as "black genocide." Linda Greenhouse, Abortion, Racism, Health, New York City http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110210035625.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/LindaGreenhousePBS.jpg 20110210021213 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:12:00 -0400 The Times has never been overly concerned about the free speech rights of campus conservatives. Yet today the Times rode to the defense of a Muslim group facing criminal charges for conspiring to disrupt a speech by an Israeli ambassador. Jennifer Medina, College, Protesters, University of California at Irvine, Muslims, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110210021213.aspx 20110210122250 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:22:00 -0400 Newly minted anti-earmark conservatives are facing a backlash, says Jennifer Steinhauer: "Tensions are particularly acute in districts where new conservative lawmakers, many of whom criticized throughout their campaigns the practice of quietly inserting earmarks into spending bills, are coming face to face with local governments and interest groups who were counting on federal dollars to help shore up their own collapsing budgets." Jennifer Steinhauer, Earmarks, Congress, Tea Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110210122250.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20110209024019 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:40:00 -0400 In a story lamenting the failure of the Dream Act, reporter Julia Preston puts an emotional liberal spin on legislation cutting off benefits to illegal immigrants: "Hostility toward illegal immigrants has grown in many states." Julia Preston, Illegal Immigration, Amnesty, Dream Act, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110209024019.aspx 20110209021103 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:10:00 -0400 Houston bureau chief James McKinley: "Democrats said Mr. Perry and Republican legislative leaders, who have big majorities in both houses, are ignoring reality to curry favor with Tea Party conservatives. They point out that the governor regularly boasts about people moving to Texas but has not budgeted for the costs of rising school enrollment....Many lawmakers think Mr. Perry is more concerned about laying the groundwork for a run for national office than averting painful budget cuts." James McKinley Jr., Texas, Rick Perry, Taxes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110209021103.aspx 20110209013300 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:33:00 -0400 "In the wake of sweeping Republican victories in last year's Congressional elections, where Tea Party supporters rewarded candidates who pledged to uphold fiscally conservative principles and punished those who failed their conservative purity tests..." Jeff Zeleny, CPAC, Tea Party, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110209013300.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Zeleny.jpg 20110208013424 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:34:00 -0400 James Taranto tackles the Times endorsement of a left-wing group and it's blatant hate-speech hypocrisy: "By the Times's standards, surely it is legitimate to hold Common Cause, and particularly its most virulent supporters in the media, responsible for the depraved sentiments expressed at the Common Cause rally. That the editorial said nothing at all about the subject is further evidence that the paper's pieties about 'civility' are fraudulent - a cheap exercise in partisanship and a thuggish attempt to burnish its own reputation by tearing down those of its media competitors." James Taranto, Common Cause, Hate Speech, Double Standards, Editorial, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110208013424.aspx 20110208121416 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:14:00 -0400 Times media reporter Brian Stelter: "...as recently as Friday the conservative Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly branded Al Jazeera as 'anti-America.' But that view has been largely drowned out by people like [ABC newsman Sam] Donaldson who have hoisted up Al Jazeera English for its protest coverage." Brian Stelter, Al Jazeera, Anti-Semitism, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110208121416.aspx 20110207023801 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:38:00 -0400 Frank Rich defends the anti-American satellite network Al Jazeera and lectures his fellow Americans on "demonizing" Arabs: "The consequence of a decade's worth of indiscriminate demonization of Arabs in America - and of the low quotient of comprehensive adult news coverage that might have helped counter it - is the steady rise in Islamophobia." Frank Rich, Al Jazeera, Egypt, Arabs http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110207023801.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20110207020203 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:02:00 -0400 Gail Collins: "'Planned Parenthood aids and abets the sexual abuse and prostitution of minors,' announced Lila Rose, the beautiful anti-abortion activist who led the project. The right wing is currently chock-full of stunning women who want to end their gender's right to control their own bodies." Gail Collins, Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood, Abortion http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110207020203.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.jpg 20110207124113 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:42:00 -0400 Not exactly a commemoration: The Times' sparse coverage is highlighted by a friendly interview with a Reagan-hostile HBO documentary filmmaker and a column from Reagan's liberal biographer Edmund Morris that emphasized Reagan's post-presidential mental deterioration. Ronald Reagan, Centennial, Deborah Solomon, Edmund Morris, Howell Raines, Jennifer Medina, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110207124113.aspx 20110204024307 Clay Waters Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:43:00 -0400 Marvin Kalb asks Executive Editor Bill Keller: "Many conservatives as you well know, criticize the Times as being a liberal, left-wing newspaper, and that those views get into the news part of your newspaper. Why do you allow this to happen?" Bill Keller, Arthur Brisbane, Marvin Kalb, David Leonhardt, Liberal Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110204024307.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110204021107 Tim Graham Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:11:00 -0400 "By some lights, Italian women have come far in a country whose most entrenched power structures - the Roman Catholic Church and organized crime - remain male and secretive." That's a little like saying the NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan are both fraternal organizations based on race. Catholic Church, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Ital,y Mafia http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110204021107.aspx 20110203034329 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:43:00 -0400 Twice in two days, the Times has insisted the Egyptian Islamist group has renounced violence. Yet the group's Palestinian branch is Hamas, a terrorist organization committed to the destruction of Israel. Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Labeling Bias, Terrorism, John Leland, Mark Landler, Helene Cooper, David Kirkpatrick http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110203034329.aspx 20110203014458 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:45:00 -0400 According to health reporter Robert Pear, the Family Research Council is a "conservative group," while the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is merely an "advocate for women's health." Robert Pear, Health Care, Labeling Bias, Planned Parenthood, Abortion, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110203014458.aspx 20110203011521 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:15:00 -0400 Washington Bureau Chief Dean Baquet: "Put aside the debate over what WikiLeaks provided. Isn't it unimaginable to anybody that the New York Times would have had the arrogance to have this stuff and not publish it?" Dean Baquet, WikiLeaks, Marvin Kalb, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110203011521.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Dean_Baquet.jpg 20110202032359 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:24:00 -0400 Executive Editor Bill Keller blasts Fox News and brings up the Arizona shootings: "I make no connection between the guy who shot those people in Tucson and the national discourse. But it is true that the national discourse is more polarized and strident than it has been in the past, and to some extent, I would lay that at the feet of Rupert Murdoch." Bill Keller, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Gabrielle Giffords, Shooting http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110202032359.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bill_Keller_Kalb.JPG 20110202020447 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:04:00 -0400 The Times on the Democrats' convention choice: "Can North Carolina Deliver Again?" The Times on the G.O.P.'s choice: "The wrong mix of poverty juxtaposed with Republicans partying - perhaps against a backdrop of oil-stained beaches - could give Democrats just what they need to portray their opponents as woefully disconnected from the middle class." Jeff Zeleny, Damien Cave, Democratic Convention, Republican Convention, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110202020447.aspx 20110202124505 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:45:00 -0400 This is a news story? Reporter Andrew Martin: "As the nation's obesity crisis continues unabated...Many Americans eat too many calories every day, expanding their waistlines and imperiling their health. While the recommendations may seem obvious, it is nonetheless considered major progress for federal regulators, who have long skirted the issue, wary of the powerful food lobby." Andrew Martin, Food Police, Nutrition Guidelines, Obesity, Health http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110202124505.aspx 20110202122900 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:29:00 -0400 The Times health reporter characterizes Judge Roger Vinson's ruling Obama-care as unconstitutional in ideological terms, but fails to label opponents of the ruling as liberal. Kevin Sack, Obama-care, Florida, Court Ruling, Unconstitutional, Labeling Bias, Tea Party, Roger Vinson http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110202122900.aspx 20110201035332 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:53:00 -0400 To that, Abby Joseph Cohen of Goldman Sachs replied: "What about the C.E.O. of the New York Times Company?" Deborah Solomon, Abby Joseph Cohen, Magazine, CEO http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110201035332.aspx 20110201032642 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:26:00 -0400 Reporter Michael Barbaro gets awfully worked up about one of Bush's daughter's making a video in support of gay marriage in New York State: "The Bush dynasty is no stranger to generational conflict: father and son differed over deposing Saddam Hussein, raising taxes and the role of the United Nations. Now it is father and daughter who find themselves at odds over a weighty issue." Barbara Bush, Michael Barbaro, Gay Marriage, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110201032642.aspx 20110201020129 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:01:00 -0400 An online headline underplayed the danger a Florida judge's ruling poses to Obama-care: "Ruling Against Health Care Law Evens Scorecard at 2-2." Kevin Sack, Obama-care, Florida, Court Ruling, Unconstitutional, Headlines http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110201020129.aspx 20110201123426 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:34:00 -0400 The biggest laugh line in Executive Editor Bill Keller's proud defense of his paper's publication of secret diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: "...it is our aim to be impartial in our presentation of the news." Yet he clearly preferred dealing with the Obama White House over that of President George W. Bush. Wikileaks, Bill Keller, Diplomacy, Julian Assange http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110201123426.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KellerPBS.jpg 20110131022528 Clay Waters Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:25:00 -0400 After ignoring the conservative "March for Life," the Times covers a lefty protest against a gathering by the conservative Koch brothers, accusing them of trying to influence American politics for the worst. Yet the Times fails to notice the protest itself was organized by a group funded by George Soros, a billionaire trying to influence American politics. Eric Lichtblau, Ian Lovett, Koch Brothers, George Soros, Protests, Common Cause, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110131022528.aspx 20110131014114 Clay Waters Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:41:00 -0400 Kim Severson: "Nicknamed 'Jesus chicken' by jaded secular fans and embraced by Evangelical Christians, Chick-fil-A is among only a handful of large American companies with conservative religion built into its corporate ethos. But recently its ethos has run smack into the gay rights movement." Kim Severson, Chick-fil-A, Gay Rights, Boycotts http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110131014114.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KimSeverson.jpg 20110128022518 Clay Waters Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:25:00 -0400 Given the importance the Times gives toward the financial situation of the wives of subjects, one wonders how the paper managed to miss it when one of its own economics reporters, Edmund Andrews, wrote “Busted,” a May 2009 book about his own personal mortgage crisis that denounced greedy banks, yet left out his wife's previous two bankruptcies? Snowstorm, Manhattan, Union, Work Slowdown, Russ Buettner, William Rashbaum, Daniel Halloran, Edmund Andrews, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110128022518.aspx 20110128014924 Clay Waters Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:49:00 -0400 Does David Firestone not know the federal government does enforce light-bulb standards? "The three Republicans portrayed government as a grim juggernaut that kills jobs and dreams and even, in Ms. Bachmann's nightmarish vision, enforces light-bulb standards....Mr. Obama cannot avoid the path toward eventual deficit reduction, but he is more likely than the doomsayers to persuade the nation to join him on the journey." David Firestone, Editorial, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110128014924.aspx 20110128012306 Clay Waters Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:23:00 -0400 A Times movie critic celebrates the message of a film "about double lives, the violence that can lurk inside those who cannot face themselves and the laudable quest for gay marriage in the United States." Andy Webster, Movies, Blackmail Boys, Gay Marriage, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110128012306.aspx 20110127024700 Clay Waters Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:47:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes follows Obama to Wisconsin on his "victory lap" tour of factory floors, finds enthusiasm and applause for the president. Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, Wisconsin, State of the Union http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110127024700.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110127014328 Clay Waters Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:43:00 -0400 Paul Krugman on the superiority of the European welfare state: "On the one side, those strong safety nets have meant that the amount of sheer misery in Europe is considerably less than here....But in the United States, that has really meant incredible individual hardship. In Europe - even in the troubled economies, and very much so in the stronger economies like France or Germany - there just hasn't been - things have not been so terrible....in a lot of ways, Europe is weathering this crisis better, as a human process, then we are." Paul Krugman, Terry Gross, NPR, Europe, Euros, Welfare State, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110127014328.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110127011800 Clay Waters Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:18:00 -0400 From London, critic Michael Kimmelman mocked conservative critics of the Smithsonian's sponsorship of an artist's clip showing ants crawling on a crucifix, a picture of which appears in the Times. Yet the same critic in 2006 called the Mohammad cartoons "callous and feeble," and the paper proudly refused to reprint them. Michael Kimmelman, Arts, Ants, Crucifix, Smithsonian, Hypocrisy, Health Care Double Standards, Muhammad Cartoons http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110127011800.aspx 20110126034537 Clay Waters Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:45:00 -0400 David Sanger: "At a moment when the momentum in Washington is driving toward slashing budgets and shrinking government, President Obama argued on Tuesday evening that the politics of austerity, mindlessly applied, would amount to a pre-emptive surrender to China, India and a raft of smaller competitors who are investing while Americans are cutting." David Sanger, Barack Obama, State of the Union, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110126034537.aspx 20110126015129 Clay Waters Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:51:00 -0400 Republicans dashed Obama's attempt at fostering "good will" by issuing their standard rebuttal: "Still, the good will lasted only so long. Moments after Mr. Obama finished speaking, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, delivered the official Republican response, in which he criticized Mr. Obama as doing too little to attack the deficit." Barack Obama, State of the Union, Double Standards, George W. Bush, Sheryl Gay Stolberg http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110126015129.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20110126013610 Clay Waters Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:36:00 -0400 Matt Bai gushes: "Mr. Obama is probably the most talented writer to occupy the office in the television age; his political career was made possible, in large part, by the candid memoir he wrote as a younger man." But was Obama's memoir, "Dreams From My Father," candid in the sense of being wholly factual? Probably not. Matt Bai, Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110126013610.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20110125025349 Clay Waters Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:53:00 -0400 White House reporter Peter Baker: "There is a compelling case that Obamanomics has produced results....The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, known as the stimulus, produced or saved at least 1.9 million jobs and as many as 4.7 million last year, according to the Congressional Budget Office." Peter Baker, Obamanomics, Stimulus, Economy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110125025349.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Peter_Baker.jpg 20110125012838 Clay Waters Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:28:00 -0400 The Times did improve on its track record: This year's march was the subject of two photos in the newspaper, as opposed to being totally ignored in print the previous four years. The Times is far more eager to publicize protests in support of liberal causes, no matter how puny, like amnesty for illegals. March for Life, Double Standards, Abortion, Dream Act, Protests, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110125012838.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/DSC_0195.png 20110124043747 Clay Waters Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:37:00 -0400 Some truly goofy articles have appeared on the front of the Home section appealing to easily freaked-out liberal urbanites: Warnings over fluoridated water, celebrated a “no impact” couple living without toilet paper. On Thursday, the Times explored the environmental danger posed by fireplaces. Fireplaces, Home Section, Gaffes, Environment http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110124043747.aspx 20110124035015 Clay Waters Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:50:00 -0400 Only the overdramatic columnist Frank Rich could find a political message in a Western remake: "The double-barreled success of 'True Grit,' then and now, spreads well beyond those conservative gunslingers. In our current winter of high domestic anxiety, as in the politically tumultuous American summer of 1969, it is a hit with the national mass audience and elite critics alike. The new version is doing as well in New York and Los Angeles as in red Cheneyland." Frank Rich, Movies, True Grif, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110124035015.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20110124032442 Clay Waters Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:12:00 -0400 Media reporter Brian Stelter "inverts the story" to make Glenn Beck a villain and a leftist advocate of violence a hero, claims the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto. "In the paper's telling, [Frances Fox] Piven, the advocate of violence, is the victim; Beck, her critic, is the villain....But the idea that Beck is to blame for these alleged threats is baseless. That is why the Times makes this accusation only indirectly, through insinuation and innuendo, consistent with its recent journalistic modus operandi." Glenn Beck, Frances Fox Piven, Brian Stelter, The Nation, Rhetoric, Ron Radosh, Stanley Kurtz, James Taranto, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110124032442.aspx 20110121064838 Clay Waters Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:48:00 -0400 In the aftermath of the killing in Tucson, Times reporters and commentators placed blame on conservative talk radio, Sarah Palin's campaign map, anti-immigration politics, hostility over Obama-care, access to guns - everywhere but on the shooter himself. Tucson, Gabrielle Giffords, Media Bias, Paul Krugman, Arizona http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110121064838.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110120041153 Clay Waters Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:10:00 -0400 The Times let the founder of the left-wing Daily Kos blog do a victory lap upon Lieberman's announced retirement from the Senate. The paper was more respectful in saying farewell to the irresponsible liberal Congressman Alan Grayson. David Halbfinger, Elizabeth Harris, Joe Lieberman, Retirement, Daily Kos, Double Standards, Alan Grayson, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110120041153.aspx 20110120021928 Clay Waters Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:19:00 -0400 After two weeks of lectures on the need for conservatives like Sarah Palin to cool their political vitriol, a Democrat Congressman likening Republican rhetoric on Obama-care to Joseph Goebbels and Hitler's "Big Lie" wasn't even worth its own story in the Times. Jennifer Steinhauer, Gabrielle Giffords, Shooting, Arizona, John McCain, Illegal Immigration http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110120021928.aspx 20110120123727 Clay Waters Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:37:00 -0400 Political reporter Matt Bai argues that the "divisive" Sarah Palin could make Obama look like more of a reformer: "...it's considerably easier if you can contrast yourself with an adversary who embodies the kind of outdated politics, ideological rigidity or divisiveness that repelled those voters in the first place." Matt Bai, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Ross Douthat http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110120123727.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20110119122336 Clay Waters Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:23:00 -0400 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 Jared L. Loughner's apparent mental unraveling..." The Times never hesitated to blame Gov. Jan Brewer, or the state's gun culture, or Sarah Palin's campaign map, for contributing to the violence. A.G. Sulzberger, Jennifer Medina, Tucson, Shooting, Drugs, Jared Loughner, Salvia, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110119122336.aspx 20110119102647 Clay Waters Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:26:00 -0400 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 heard from my fellow conservatives, the issue is decided. The New York Times is a worthless, truthless, vicious institution. But I disagree. I think things are worse than that." Tucson, Gabrielle Giffords, Media Bias, P.J. O'Rourke, James Taranto http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110119102647.aspx 20110118011740 Clay Waters Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:17:00 -0400 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." Arizona, Shooting, Rhetoric, Double Standards, Gaffes, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110118011740.aspx 20110118123011 Clay Waters Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:30:00 -0400 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 office vandalized during an especially rancorous campaign. And after the shooting the sheriff called his state the capital of hatred and bigotry." But the paper's Public Editor disagrees. Richard Berke, Arthur Brisbane, Arizona, Shooting, Sheriff Dupnik, Jared Loughner, Gabrielle Giffords http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110118123011.aspx 20110118120328 Clay Waters Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:03:00 -0400 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 conservative Republican from Oklahoma, and Sen. Charles Schumer, a plain old Democrat from New York. David Herszenhorn, Carl Hulse, Gabrielle Giffords, Labeling Bias, Congress, Shooting, Tom Coburn, Charles Schumer http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110118120328.aspx 20110118102004 Clay Waters Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:20:00 -0400 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 consequences of a tide of ugly insurrectionism that had been rising since the final weeks of the 2008 campaign and that had threatened to turn violent from the start." Jared Loughner, Sarah Palin, Gabrielle Giffords, Blood Libel, Frank Rich http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110118102004.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20110117031630 Clay Waters Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:16:00 -0400 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 overheated political rhetoric and the shootings...." The Times also defensively claims "direct accusations against conservative talk radio and pundits were leveled by people online, not members of the mainstream media." Jeremy Peters, Brian Stelter, Tucson, Shootings, Paul Krugman, Bill O'Reilly, Markos Moulitsas http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110117031630.aspx 20110117021116 Clay Waters Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:11:00 -0400 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 less vanished by the next year's elections, when Republicans slammed their Democratic opponents - including Max Cleland, a man who lost three of his limbs fighting in Vietnam - as insufficiently patriotic." Has anyone at the Times ever actually watched the ad? Matt Bai, Max Cleland, Oklahoma City Bombing, Tucson, Shooting http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110117021116.aspx 20110117014634 Clay Waters Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:46:00 -0400 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. Jared Loughner, Gabrielle Giffords, Dan Barry, Shootings, Labeling Bias, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110117014634.aspx 20110114014459 Clay Waters Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:44:00 -0400 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 continual dialogue between past and present. A reading of the text that ignores that fact is...simplistic and sterile." Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court, Constitution, Living Document http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110114014459.aspx 20110114121340 Clay Waters Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:13:00 -0400 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 taxing them to support others, no matter how needy, amounts to theft. That's what lies behind the modern right's fondness for violent rhetoric: many activists on the right really do see taxes and regulation as tyrannical impositions on their liberty." Paul Krugman, Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona, Barack Obama, Eliminationist Rhetoric http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110114121340.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_2010.jpg 20110114115632 Clay Waters Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:56:00 -0400 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 and Jennifer Steinhauer: "The National Rifle Association has gone uncommonly dark since the weekend shootings here." Adam Nagourney, Jennifer Steinhauer, National Rifle Association, Gabrielle Giffords, Shooting, Arizona, Guns http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110114115632.aspx 20110113025203 Clay Waters Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:52:00 -0400 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. Michael Shear, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Arizona, Jared Loughner, Speeches, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110113025203.aspx 20110113020438 Clay Waters Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:04:00 -0400 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 handgun. Nicholas Kristof, Gail Collins, Arizona, Gun Control, Gabrielle Giffords, Assassination http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110113020438.aspx 20110113012657 Clay Waters Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:26:00 -0400 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, having grown up in the middle of the tumultuous civil rights struggle without, apparently, having noticed much." Former Klansman and Democratic Senator Robert Byrd got more complimentary treatment in a previous story. Campbell Robertson, Haley Barbour, RNC, Civil Rights, Racism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110113012657.aspx 20110113113646 Clay Waters Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:36:00 -0400 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 2006: "Bush administration allies exploited the former Congressman's predatory history to spread the grotesque canard that homosexuality is a direct path to pedophilia. It's the kind of blood libel that in another era was spread about Jews." Jared Loughner, Sarah Palin, Gabrielle Giffords, Blood Libel, Frank Rich http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110113113646.aspx 20110112033248 Clay Waters Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:32:00 -0400 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 tough law aimed at illegal immigrants, budget cuts that include denying aid to people who need life-saving transplants and laws permitting people to take concealed guns into bars and banning the teaching of ethnic studies in public schools." Adam Nagourney, Gabrielle Giffords, Shooting, Jan Brewer, Arizona, Illegal Immigration http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110112033248.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20110112120601 Clay Waters Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:06:00 -0400 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 Times's take on health care is synonymous with Mr. Leonhardt's, which some see as progressive or liberal." Arthur Brisbane, Liberal Bias, David Leonhardt, Obama-Care, Public Editor http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110112120601.aspx 20110111014234 Clay Waters Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:42:00 -0400 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 American Muslim whose parents came from the Middle East." Yet the Times showed no hesitation at all from blaming conservatives for contributing to violence: "But it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats, setting the nation on edge." Jared Loughner, Editorial, Shooting, Gabrielle Giffords, Double Standards, Editorials, Arizona, Fort Hood http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110111014234.aspx 20110111120601 Clay Waters Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:06:00 -0400 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 unsuccessfully ran against Harry Reid for the Senate in Nevada last year. She talked about 'domestic enemies' in the Congress and said, 'I hope we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies.'" Not cited: A Democratic senator's comment last December: "it really is time for people in America to take up pitchforks." Matt Bai, Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner, Arizona, Campaign 2010, Rhetoric, Claire McKaskill, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110111120601.aspx 20110111114028 Clay Waters Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:40:00 -0400 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." Never mind that gun laws have not been shown to decrease shootings. Gabrielle Giffords, Jo Becker, Michael Luo, Guns, Arizona, Shooting, Jared Loughner http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110111114028.aspx 20110111111650 Clay Waters Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:16:00 -0400 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, raising temperatures here in a way that some that some of Ms. Giffords's friends argue fed an atmosphere that might encourage violence." Adam Nagourney, Gabrielle Giffords, Shooting, Jared Loughner, Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Campaign 2010 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110111111650.aspx 20110111104400 Clay Waters Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:43:00 -0400 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 the issue in trademark fashion: via e-mail to the conservative commentator Glenn Beck." Jim Rutenberg, Kate Zernike, Gabrielle Giffords, Shooting, Sarah Palin, Campaign Map http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110111104400.aspx 20110110115808 Clay Waters Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:58:00 -0400 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 cite several conservative measures against illegal immigration. Jennifer Steinhauer, Gabrielle Giffords, Shooting, Arizona, John McCain, Illegal Immigration http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110110115808.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jennifer_Steinhauer.jpg 20110110113140 Clay Waters Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:31:00 -0400 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 American currency and the Constitution...were strikingly similar in language and tone to the voices of the Internet's more paranoid, extremist corners....The position, for instance, that currency not backed by a gold or silver standard is worthless is a hallmark of the far right and the militia movement, said Mark Potok, who directs research on hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center." Jared Loughner, Kirk Johnson, Southern Poverty Law Center, Labeling Bias, Shooting, Gabrielle Giffords, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110110113140.aspx 20110110081338 Clay Waters Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:13:00 -0400 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 category. I've had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the final stages of the 2008 campaign. I remembered the upsurge in political hatred after Bill Clinton's election in 1992 - an upsurge that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing." Paul Krugman, Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Shooting, Oklahoma City Bombing, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110110081338.aspx 20110110073823 Clay Waters Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:38:00 -0400 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. Giffords was also among a group of Democratic House candidates featured on the Web site of Sarah Palin's political action committee with cross hairs over their districts, a fact that disturbed Ms. Giffords at the time." And two Times reporters linked to Palin's campaign map on their Twitter feeds. Jared Loughner, Carl Hulse, Kate Zernike, Sarah Palin, Gabrielle Giffords, Campaign Map http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110110073823.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/BP_0405_heartland1.gif 20110107122707 Clay Waters Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:27:00 -0400 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, blaming both sides for attacks and buying details of the ongoing persecution and suppression of Coptic Christians in predominantly Muslim Egypt. Michael Slackman, Egypt, Christians, Religion, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110107122707.aspx 20110107115532 Clay Waters Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:55:00 -0400 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 Constitution on the floor, it's probably a good idea to have already taken the oath to support and defend it first." Jennifer Steinhauer, Congress, Constitution, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110107115532.aspx 20110107105628 Clay Waters Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:56:00 -0400 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..." David Brooks, Barack Obama, Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, Columnists http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110107105628.aspx 20110106031111 Clay Waters Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:21:00 -0400 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 is "horrified" at the substitution. Nicholas Kristof, Mark Twain, Censorship, Editorial Page, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110106031111.aspx 20110106015137 Clay Waters Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:51:00 -0400 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 than $140 billion over 10 years, without any requirement that those revenue losses be made up elsewhere." Carl Hulse, John Boehner, Obama-Care, Health Care, Deficit, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110106015137.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20110106114326 Bob Parks Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:43:00 -0400 While sniffing over the "theatrical production of unusual pomposity" put on by the incoming Republican Congress for daring to require "that every bill cite its basis in the Constitution," Times editors revealed their historical ignorance by getting the Constitution's "three-fifth's compromise" totally wrong. Editorial, Constitution, Three-Fifths Compromise http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110106114326.aspx 20110105025345 Clay Waters Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:54:00 -0400 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. Jeremy Peters, The Village Voice, Labeling Bias, Retirements, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110105025345.aspx 20110105010432 Clay Waters Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:04:00 -0400 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 after the feds announced an investigation. The story itself, “Blizzard Cleanup Is Subject of Inquiry,” was buried pretty deep, not on the front page, but in the paper's local section, page A-20 New York City, Snowstorm, Unions, Slowdown, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110105010432.aspx 20110105124247 Clay Waters Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:42:00 -0400 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 Lacey handed down his opinion on those who would end the practice of granting citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants: "Most Constitutional scholars consider the states' effort to restrict birth certificates patently unconstitutional." Illegal Immigration, Marc Lacey, Anchor Babies, Labeling Bias, Anchor Babies http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110105124247.aspx 20110105104451 Julia A. Seymour Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:44:00 -0400 The Times reported Chevron has been using outtakes from the film "Crude," an anti-Chevron film, in its legal battles over an environmental damage lawsuit filed in Ecuador. The Times called it "a cautionary tale for lawyers who invite in documentary filmmakers to tell the story of their legal fights." But the paper was not upfront about its opposition to the use of the film footage. Chevron, Oil, Ecuador, John Schwartz, Dave Itzkoff http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110105104451.aspx 20110104025344 Clay Waters Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:53:00 -0400 Washington-based reporter Jackie Calmes says the "deep" spending reductions proposed by conservatives could threaten the economy's recovery while "carrying substantial political and economic risks." Jackie Calmes, Spending, Congress, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110104025344.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20110104010853 Clay Waters Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:08:00 -0400 Um, hooray? Edward Wong reports on a Maoist tourist spot in China where "young professionals...rekindle their long-lost sense of class struggle and proletarian principles." The millions wiped out in the Cultural Revolution and the famine were relegated to the 18th paragraph. Edward Wong, China, Communism, Chairman Mao, Tourism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110104010853.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mao.jpg 20110104114733 Clay Waters Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:47:00 -0400 Playing catch-up, Eric Eckholm cheerleads for gay-straight alliances in Utah high schools - student clubs that are thriving despite narrow-minded conservative attempts to “stifle them" with "arbitrary hurdles" and "legally shaky barriers," declarations more suited to the opinion page. Eric Eckholm, Gays, High School http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110104114733.aspx 20110103041001 Clay Waters Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:09:00 -0400 Defeated Democratic and "virtual-bomb-tosser" Alan Grayson gets a a rather fond send off in the Times and certainly doesn't get the Newt Gingrich treatment (the Times omits the "virtual" when talking about Gingrich's rhetoric). Michael Barbaro, Alan Grayson, Double Standards, Newt Gingrich, Campaign 2010 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110103041001.aspx 20110103035505 Clay Waters Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:54:00 -0400 The many and varied dangers of income inequality in the United States: "The upshot appears to be high rates of violent crime, high narcotics use, high teenage birthrates and even high rates of heart disease....macaque monkeys are also highly social animals, and scientists put them in cages and taught them how to push a lever so that they could get cocaine. Those at the bottom of the monkey hierarchy took much more cocaine than high-status monkeys." Nicholas Kristof, Income Inequality, Monkeys, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110103035505.aspx 20110103035430 Clay Waters Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:54:00 -0400 Arbitrary cheap shot alert: "West and East, many people enjoy a good ghost story or a peek at their horoscope now and again. What sets apart Thailand and other countries in Asia is the prevalence of fortune telling and other supernatural-related activities at the highest levels of government (Nancy Reagan's astrologer notwithstanding)." Thomas Fuller, Nancy Reagan, Thailand, Astrology, Bias By Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110103035430.aspx 20101229024320 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:02:00 -0400 Welcome to Times Watch's end-of-year awards issue, celebrating the best of the worst quotes that appeared in the paper or were uttered by Times reporters and columnists during 2010. It was a year in which the Times reacted badly to challenges to President Obama, seeing racial hostility behind every attack on our wise, hope-bringing, moderate president. This year the biased quotes come in three categories: Poisoned Tea Party, Obama Adoration, and Just Plain Bizarre. William McGowan, Thomas Lifson, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101229024320.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TW Logo.jpg 20101229122048 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:20:00 -0400 Robert Hershey puts airline deregulation on the defensive in his obituary for deregulation architect Arthur Kahn: "The changes Mr. Kahn orchestrated resulted in increased competition, lower fares and the rise of low-cost carriers like JetBlue and Southwest. But they also created severe financial problems for the industry, leading to bankruptcies and mergers....While the industry was financially battered by the new law and some smaller cities lost service, Mr. Kahn over the years stoutly defended his handiwork by saying that many more Americans were flying with greater choice of carriers and at lower fares than ever before." Robert Hershey Jr., Alfred Kahn, Obituary, Airline Deregulation http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101229122048.aspx 20101229113527 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:35:00 -0400 A puff piece by Sheryl Gay Stolberg tries to show the Obama administration as vigilant in the war on terror: "Against that backdrop, the White House has made substantive and public relations changes to Mr. Obama's vacation, adopting what Juan C. Zarate, a counterterrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, calls a strategy of 'taking no chances and assuming the worst.'" Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Christmas http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101229113527.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20101229110029 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:00:00 -0400 Chief economics writer David Leonhardt: "The most recent climate data suggested 2010 would be the hottest or second-hottest year ever recorded; the 10 hottest have all occurred in the last 13 years, creating serious risks for the planet and its economy." David Leonhardt, Economy, 2010, Global Warming, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101229110029.aspx 20101229081633 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:16:00 -0400 Today, Times Watch will release its annual Times Watch Quotes of Note Worst Quotes of the Year for 2010 - the most slanted reporting to appear in the Times or uttered by Times reporters and columnists this year. Please consider a donation and demonstrate that Times Watch readers are committed to the MRC's mission and value products like the annual Quotes of Note Worst Quotes of the Year. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101229081633.aspx 20101228013104 Clay Waters Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:30:00 -0400 Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor "has displayed a quality - call it what you will - that is alert to the humanity of the people whose cases make their way to the Supreme Court," says Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak. Adam Liptak, Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101228013104.aspx 20101228124152 Clay Waters Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:41:00 -0400 Justin Gillis has another scary front-page story on global warming: "Fossil fuel emissions, they say, are like a runaway train, hurtling the world's citizens toward a stone wall - a carbon dioxide level that, over time, will cause profound changes. The risks include melting ice sheets, rising seas, more droughts and heat waves, more flash floods, worse storms, extinction of many plants and animals, depletion of sea life and - perhaps most important - difficulty in producing an adequate supply of food." Justin Gillis, Environment, Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101228124152.aspx 20101227035107 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:50:00 -0400 A former prominent economics reporter for the Times lauds a new book by Matt Taibbi, incendiary leftist writer on the financial meltdown of 2008, which argues "the nation suffered the equivalent of a hostile takeover of key areas of its commercial life by investment banking houses, while regulators and members of Congress abdicated their responsibilities either because they were influenced by campaign cash or because they believed the fairy tale that unsupervised markets always work best." http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101227035107.aspx 20101227032725 Clay Waters Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:27:00 -0400 A tiny knot of supporters of accused WikiLeaks leaker, Army analyst Bradley Manning, get some publicity in the paper's special San Francisco section. Aaron Glantz, San Francisco, Protesters, Wikileaks, Bradley Manning http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101227032725.aspx 20101227125542 Clay Waters Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:55:00 -0400 "Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause? And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart - despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism - the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?" Jon Stewart, David Carr, Brian Stelter, 9-11, Congress, Edward R. Murrow http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101227125542.aspx 20101221041619 Clay Waters Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:15:00 -0400 James McKinley Jr. paints Texas Republicans as vulnerable in a slanted, sentimental take on the defeat of the "Dream Act" amnesty legislation: "The risk for Republicans like Ms. Hutchison is that in trying to appeal to the conservative base, they will anger Hispanics, who are regarded as the sleeping giant of Texas politics." McKinley had previously led the cheers for a Democratic candidate for governor that lost by 13 points. James McKinley Jr., Dream Act, Illegal Immigation, Texas, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101221041619.aspx 20101220032158 Clay Waters Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:21:00 -0400 Congressional reporter Carl Hulse embraces another liberal piece of legislation as "historic": "The vote marked a historic moment that some equated with the end of racial segregation in the military." Carl Hulse, DADT, Gays, Military, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101220032158.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20101220025217 Clay Waters Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:51:00 -0400 Yes, he's serious: "at a time when a fraudulent, anti-science campaign funded largely by Big Oil and Big Coal has blocked Congress from passing any clean energy/climate bill - is the fact that the Navy and Marine Corps just didn't get the word....the Navy and Marines are building a strategy for 'out-greening' Al Qaeda, 'out-greening' the Taliban and 'out-greening' the world's petro-dictators." Thomas Friedman, Environment, Military, Gaffes, Taliban http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101220025217.aspx 20101220021617 Clay Waters Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:15:00 -0400 Julia Preston offered more slanted coverage of the "painful setback" to a narrowly "tailored" effort to bring illegals "out of the shadows." So why were they doing watching from the gallery of the U.S. Senate? Julia Preston, Illegal Immigration, Amnesty, Dream Act, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101220021617.aspx 20101216100219 Clay Waters Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:02:00 -0400 Plus: Frank Rich's latest excruciating metaphor and his lament that "homophobia" is merely a "misdemeanor" in official D.C. circles. And Kate Zernike claims her slanted book on the Tea Party movement is balanced and objective. Bill Keller, Frank Rich http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101216100219.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/NewYorkTimes-Logo.jpg 20101215024033 Clay Waters Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:40:00 -0400 Jeremy Peters praises the crime fighting Washington Examiner, a free D.C. newspaper with a "conservative bent." "About once a month, the United States Marshals Service in the Washington area apprehends a fugitive caught with the help of Examiner readers. So far, marshals have rounded up 24 suspects after receiving calls from people who read about a fugitive in the paper. The captures are the result of a weekly item in The Examiner called 'Most Wanted,' which has featured a fugitive for the last two and a half years." Jeremy Peters, Washington Examiner, Crime, Kudos, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101215024033.aspx 20101215011611 Clay Waters Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:16:00 -0400 The paper's chief economic columnist compares opposition to Obama-care to opposition to civil rights for blacks: "Nearly every time this country has expanded its social safety net or tried to guarantee civil rights, passionate opposition has followed." David Leonhardt, Obama-care, Civil Rights, Conservatives http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101215011611.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/DavidLeonhardt.jpg 20101215120206 Clay Waters Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:02:00 -0400 Reporter John Broder personalizes the weather to foster global warming alarmism: "The climate itself was not waiting for the outcome of the talks. An analysis of average global temperatures released Friday by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies shows that 2010 has so far been the warmest year in its 130-year climate record." John Broder, Global Warming, James Hansen, Cancun, Environment, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101215120206.aspx 20101214024231 Clay Waters Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:42:00 -0400 After taking great offense at a Republican shouting "You lie!" at Obama during his 2009 State of the Union, Carl Hulse devoted a mere seven words to a Democrat's "F*** the President" outburst. Carl Hulse, Fuck the President, Double Standards, You Lie, Congress, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101214024231.aspx 20101214015415 Clay Waters Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:54:00 -0400 After downplaying partisanship of federal judges in rulings involving immigration and gay marriage, the Times plays up the fact that an anti-Obama-care ruling was done by a Republican-appointed judge: "The opinion by Judge Hudson, who has a long history in Republican politics in Northern Virginia, continued a partisan pattern in the health care cases. Thus far, judges appointed by Republican presidents have ruled consistently against the Obama administration, while Democratic appointees have found for it. That has reinforced the notion - fueled by the White House - that the lawsuits are as much a political assault as a constitutional one." Kevin Sack, Obama-care, Health, Double Standards, Judges, Immigration, Randal Archibold http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101214015415.aspx 20101213040012 Clay Waters Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:00:00 -0400 Frank Rich loses it again, defending in nasty and personal terms the ants-on-crucifix art on display at the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. "The incident is chilling because it suggests that even in a time of huge progress in gay civil rights, homophobia remains among the last permissible bigotries in America....One might add: Think anti-gay bullying is just for small-town America? Look at the nation's capital." Frank Rich, Hide/Seek, Smithsonian, Arts, Gay Rights, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101213040012.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20101213023848 Clay Waters Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:38:00 -0400 Art critic Holland Cotter did not approve of the removal of a video from a Smithsonian show featuring gay artists, and made it known in a pretentious manner: "With the exhibition 'Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,' one of our federally funded museums, the National Portrait Gallery, here in the city of 'don't ask, don't tell,' has gone where our big private museums apparently dare not tread, deep into the history of art by and about gay artists....to have removed it entirely because of ideological strong-arming was to violate the premise and the promise of the show: difference was sent back into hiding." Holland Cotter, Arts, Smithsonian, Hide/Seek, Gays, David Wojnarowicz, AIDS http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101213023848.aspx 20101213065628 Tim Graham Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:41:00 -0400 In a review of the ballet The Nutcracker, the Times dance critic caused a furor by suggesting the ballerina playing the Sugar Plum Fairy "looked as if she'd eaten one sugar plum too many." http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101213065628.aspx 20101210035429 Clay Waters Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:54:00 -0400 Sophisticated Europe rolls its eyes at silly American concern over the WikiLeaks revelations. The Times takes Europe's side, seeing the concern as a betrayal of American ideals neither the Times or left-wing Europeans are in the habit of celebrating: "For many Europeans, Washington's fierce reaction to the flood of secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks displays imperial arrogance and hypocrisy, indicating a post-9/11 obsession with secrecy that contradicts American principles." WikiLeaks, Stehen Erlanger, Europe, United States http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101210035429.aspx 20101210031200 Clay Waters Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:11:00 -0400 Edward Rothstein criticizes post 9-11 political correctness toward the Muslim world while reviewing a flawed, propagandistic exhibition on the history of science: "Perhaps because one tendency in the West, particularly after 9/11, has been to answer Muslim accusations of injustice (and even real attacks) with an exaggerated declaration of regard." Edward Rothstein, Arts, Museum, Islam, Religion, Science http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101210031200.aspx 20101210013114 Clay Waters Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:31:00 -0400 Fighting for Internet freedom...by shutting down websites? That's reporter Noam Cohen's strange take on hacker supporters of WikiLeaks taking down websites they disagree with: "...the loosely organized group called Anonymous might have come of age, evolving into one focused on more serious matters: in this case, the definition of Internet freedom." Noam Cohen, Wikileaks, Mastercard, Hackers, Crime, Internet http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101210013114.aspx 20101209040421 Clay Waters Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:04:00 -0400 William Van Meter on the transsexual trend: "Not since the glam era of the 1970s has gender-bending so saturated the news media. The difference now is that mystery has been replaced with empowerment, even pride." William Van Meter, Crossdressing, Transsexuality http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101209040421.aspx 20101209031506 Clay Waters Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:15:00 -0400 Former Washington correspondent David Firestone is disturbed at how Sarah Palin supporters "flock to this portrait of a way of life that is radically different from the way most Americans now live and get some extremist politics mixed in with the supposed nostalgia." Sarah Palin, TLC Show, Alaska, David Firestone, Editorial http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101209031506.aspx 20101209020651 Tim Graham Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:06:00 -0400 Executive Editor Bill Keller reacted badly to a National Public Radio question suggesting Julian Assange of WikiLeaks was a "looter" or a smasher of windows. Keller insisted the document dump has "more value" than that metaphor, that the dump is "absolutely fascinating...like a graduate seminar" on international relations. Wikileaks, Bill Keller, Diplomacy, NPR, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101209020651.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/wikileakslogo_thumb.jpg 20101208035602 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:55:00 -0400 Wait: I thought this was just about high school students? Julia Preston belatedly reports some of the actual features of the "Dream Act" amnesty program: "The lead sponsor of the Senate bill, Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, made changes to it in an effort to attract more votes, lowering the maximum age for eligibility to 29 from 35, and tightening the exclusion of immigrants with criminal records." Julia Preston, Illegal Immigration, Education, Amnesty, Dream Act, Bias by Omission, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101208035602.aspx 20101208015731 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:57:00 -0400 The sedate, responsible New York Times advances the cause of civility on its editorial page: "President Obama was right to use the metaphor of hostage-taking to describe the Republicans' tactics." Barack Obama, Hostages, Tax Cuts, Editorial http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101208015731.aspx 20101208014655 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:46:00 -0400 The Times berates the Smithsonian for pulling a video offensive to some Christians: "The exhibition is supposed to deal with culturally challenging images. Indeed, some of the most important roles of art and of museums are to challenge, disturb and enlighten." Unless those "culturally challenging images" are of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, in which case the Times blames those who made the images and refuses to reprint them. Hide/Seek, Jesus, Ants, Smithsonian, Double Standards, Art, Muslim Cartoons http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101208014655.aspx 20101207024108 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:41:00 -0400 Holly Brubach gets seriously anti-Catholic in "T," the Times style magazine: "[Marina] Warner's scholarly survey of the shape-shifting that Mary has undergone over the past two millennia methodically dismantled the legend, which had served as an instrument of oppression, stunting women's growth and curtailing their lives." Holly Brubach, James Carroll, Religion, Abdul Rauf, Ground Zero Mosque, Virgin Mary, Catholic Church, Feminism, Books, T Magazine, Style, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101207024108.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Virgin_Mary.jpg 20101207014805 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:48:00 -0400 Compare Republican senators to terrorists, and threaten a popular uprising against them? Shrugworthy news to Times reporter David Herszenhorn. But suggest Obama is being too partisan, and you're attempting "the vengeance of the vanquished." David Herszenhorn, Double Standards, Congress, Bob Menendez, Claire McCaskill http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101207014805.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn2new.jpg 20101206040259 Clay Waters Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:02:00 -0400 A writer for the Times' style magazine credits Julian Assange with giving "The Gift of Information" this Christmas season: "In contrast to the petabytes of data flotsam, half-truths and speculation that drift daily around the Internet, WikiLeaks spews forth unvarnished, sensitive truths. Assange's extraordinary project provides transparency unbridled....But if they do not bring new understanding to the past, why are they damaging at all? Is this not the curse of power, forever compelled to conceal and dissemble?" Julian Assange, Misha Glenny, T Magazine http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101206040259.aspx 20101206030530 Clay Waters Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:05:00 -0400 Sunday columnist Frank Rich displays his usual firm grasp of common sense and civility: "Those desperate to decipher the baffling Obama presidency could do worse than consult an article titled 'Understanding Stockholm Syndrome' in the online archive of The F.B.I. Law Enforcement Bulletin. It explains that hostage takers are most successful at winning a victim's loyalty if they temper their brutality with a bogus show of kindness. Soon enough, the hostage will start concentrating on his captors' 'good side' and develop psychological characteristics to please them - 'dependency; lack of initiative; and an inability to act, decide or think.' This dynamic was acted out - yet again - in President Obama's latest and perhaps most humiliating attempt to placate his Republican captors in Washington." Frank Rich, Barack Obama, Stockholm Syndrome, Campaign 2010, Chris Christie http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101206030530.aspx 20101206020722 Geoffrey Dickens Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:07:00 -0400 During a Today show report about how well books written by the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are selling, the Times' Jenny Schuessler rationalized that the only reason conservative books sales are outpacing liberal ones is because "conservatives have some really strong media personalities" like Beck and Bill O'Reilly "that have a platform that they can promote their books from." Jenny Schuessler, Books, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101206020722.aspx 20101206095343 Clay Waters Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:53:00 -0400 Author William McGowan and Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus had a revealing email exchange recently over the prospects of the New York Times reviewing McGowan's new book "Gray Lady Down – What the Decline and Fall of The New York Times Means for America," an exchange that McGowan's publisher, Roger Kimball of Encounter Books, describes as a prime example of Tanenhaus "in weasel mode." William McGowan, Gray Lady Down, Books, Sam Tanenhaus, Roger Kimball, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101206095343.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gray_Lady_Down.jpg 20101203021232 Clay Waters Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:12:00 -0400 Kim Severson's thousand-word story showed tasteless excitement over the news that tragedy has infiltrated the wealthy paradise of Celebration, Fla., a town built by the Walt Disney Co.: "As if the Thanksgiving murder were not enough to ruin things in this subdivision that Disney designed. Now, tanks and SWAT teams? Here in a community built 14 years ago by the Walt Disney Company as the happiest subdivision on earth - and which, to be fair, has been largely free from urban strife - two major crimes in the span of less than a week have made even the fake snow that blankets the town square every evening hour on the hour seem a little less cheery." Kim Severson, Celebration, Walt Disney, Crime, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101203021232.aspx 20101203015619 Clay Waters Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:56:00 -0400 Jennifer Steinhauer greets Sen. Chuck Schumer's tax-cut word games with approval. Yet the Times loathed what it considered the unfair and misleading Republican phrase "death tax" to describe the federal estate tax. Jennifer Steinhauer, Sen. Charles Schumer, Millionaire's Tax, Death Tax, Double Standards, Tax Cuts http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101203015619.aspx 20101202035244 Clay Waters Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:52:00 -0400 Republicans are already killing compromise on Capitol Hill: "Not even 24 hours after President Obama met with senior Republican Congressional leaders and expressed hopes for a 'new dialogue,' renewed partisan fury engulfed the Senate on Wednesday, as Republicans threatened to block any legislation until a deal is reached to extend the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, potentially derailing the Democrats' busy end-of-year agenda." David Herszenhorn, Congress, Lame-Duck Session, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101202035244.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn2new.jpg 20101202011207 Clay Waters Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:11:00 -0400 Again praising China, Thomas Friedman mocks American concern for civil liberties: "They fight over things like - we are not making this up - how and where an airport security officer can touch them." Thomas Friedman, China, TSA, Security, Global Warming http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101202011207.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Tom_Friedman.jpg 20101201012512 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:25:00 -0400 The Times is already pushing the "entrapment" defense in the case of the Portland Christmas-tree bomber, sympathizing with local Muslims in opposition to the anti-terror investigation. And after months of carefully separating "Islamic community center" from "mosque" when it came to a controversial project at Ground Zero, an "Islamic Center" in Portland suddenly becomes a "mosque" after an apparent arson attack. Terrorism, Portland, Gaffes, Mosque, Ground Zero, Eric Schmitt, Charlie Savage, William Yardley, Jesse McKinley, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101201012512.aspx 20101201122229 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:22:00 -0400 Jennifer Steinhauer hails the newest revered Republican "maverick," Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, for bucking the GOP and helping Obama on some issues: "Mavericks are not in vogue these days on Capitol Hill, a place where hyper-partisanship and obduracy seem to be their own rewards. But Senator Richard G. Lugar, an Indiana Republican who played that role long before it had a brand name, is standing against his party on a number of significant issues at a politically dangerous time to do so." Strange that Joe Lieberman isn't praised for bucking the Democrats. Richard Lugar, Jennifer Steinhauer, Maverick, Double Standards, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101201122229.aspx 20101130015356 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:57:00 -0400 Strained relations with the Muslim world? Blame the United States, says UN Bureau Chief Neil MacFarquhar: "The problem, which 'Arab Voices' persuasively illustrates, is that Americans tend to project their fears and desires onto Arabs and Muslims rather than searching for common ground." Neil MacFarquhar, James Zogby, Arab Voices, Islam, Muslims, Books, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101130015356.aspx 20101130122014 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:20:00 -0400 Simon Romero excuses terrorist helper Lori Berenson's "youthful outburst" of support of the Marxist terrorists of Peru's MRTA (she was 26) and wonders why the people of Peru, who suffered mightily under Marxist terrorism, can't forgive the past "mistakes" of an "outcast." Romero: "She still insists that she did not know about the M.R.T.A.'s plans of violence. But a military tribunal sentenced her to life in prison for treason. The authorities sent her to a dank cell in Yanamayo, a prison high in the Andes." Lori Berenson, Simon Romero, Peru, Terrorism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101130122014.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Berenson.jpg 20101130102634 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:26:00 -0400 Frank Rich's unleashes his latest painful cultural-political metaphor: "If this were a metaphor - if only! - Wall Street would be the bachelor, and America the dwarf, involuntarily chained to its master's hedonistic revels and fiscal recklessness with no prospect for escape." Frank Rich, Wall Street, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101130102634.aspx 20101129044234 Clay Waters Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:42:00 -0400 Executive Editor Bill Keller on why the Times published confidential diplomatic cables obtained illegally by Wikileaks: "For The Times to ignore this material would be to deny its own readers the careful reporting and thoughtful analysis they expect when this kind of information becomes public." But that's not how the paper treated the leaked emails that led to the Climate-gate controversy. Wikileaks, Bill Keller, Diplomacy, Double Standards, Andrew Revkin, Climategate, Terrorism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101129044234.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KellerPBS.jpg 20101124052745 Tim Graham Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:09:00 -0400 At first, the Times recognized the Pope's comments on sexual morality and condoms were "limited," but became convinced by liberal Catholics that a whole revolution has taken place, and the church is now in a "new world." Pope Benedict, Rachel Donadio, Laurie Goodstein http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101124052745.aspx 20101124030045 Tim Graham Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:52:00 -0400 The governor-elect is promoted for the idea that (liberal) public service is "sexy." But Cuomo also thinks it could be his natural good looks - what he calls his "genetic sculpting." Andrew Cuomo, People Magazine, Michael Barbaro, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101124030045.aspx 20101123052506 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:17:00 -0400 After spending the 2010 campaign worrying over the scourge of anonymous “deep-pocketed” conservative donors out to “buy the election,” reporter Michael Luo offered a look at a new outlet for left-wing money, American Bridge, a creation of Media Matters founder David Brock. Michael Luo, David Brock, Campaign Finance, Media Matters, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101123052506.aspx 20101123045703 Tim Graham Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:48:00 -0400 For the last three years the Times has virtually ignored the annual March for Life anti-abortion rally. Yet when a sparsely attended left-wing anti-military protest in Georgia is in danger of further dwindling, the Times sends down a reporter and photographer to document the scene. Kim Severson, Military, Protesters, Double Standards, March for Life http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101123045703.aspx 20101123041006 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:01:00 -0400 Times editors and reporters continues to ignore arguments that make earmark reform look necessary, while harping on the Democratic talking point that earmarks amount to less than one percent of the federal budget: "Earmarks, which for all their controversy account for less than half of 1 percent of total federal spending, allow lawmakers to specify how money is used in their home states." A.G. Sulzberger, Earmarks, Congress, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101123041006.aspx 20101123033624 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:30:00 -0400 Paul Krugman's taking opposition to deficit spending quite hard: "It's hard to see how this situation is resolved without a major crisis of some kind. [Former Sen. Alan] Simpson may or may not get the blood bath he craves this April, but there will be blood sooner or later. And we can only hope that the nation that emerges from that blood bath is still one we recognize." Paul Krugman, Alan Simpson, Deficit, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101123033624.aspx 20101122054521 Tim Graham Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:38:00 -0400 Reporter Janie Lorber tried to argue that voting against conservatives 88 percent of the time makes you a "moderate." They apparently grade "moderate" on a liberal curve. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101122054521.aspx 20101122014022 Tim Graham Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:33:00 -0400 Peter Applebome honors the vaguely Unitarian left."George Jones is God...You heard that from a rabbi." Christianity, Buddhism, Peter Applebome http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101122014022.aspx 20101119094711 Clay Waters Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:45:00 -0400 Times Magazine writer Robert Draper provides some context to the media's anti-Palin caricature: "The caricature of Palin as a vapid, winking, press-averse clotheshorse proved irresistible to late-night entertainers. Less well known was the Palin who agitated for more access to the media (other than Katie Couric), who was seen more than once passed out on her hotel bed half-buried in briefing books and index cards and whose thriftiness when it came to her wardrobe was so obvious that one senior strategist clucked of the Palins, 'These people shop at Dillards!'" Sarah Palin, Robert Draper, Sunday Magazine, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101119094711.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Palin_Draper.jpg 20101118120858 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:06:00 -0400 Kate Zernike says she tried to be objective in "Boiling Mad," her book about the Tea Party: "I've just written this book that very consciously tried to come up through the middle...there was merit in saying, OK, we're going to take as objective as possible a look. And certainly, you know, conservatives think I'm not objective." That last sentence is true, for good reason. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Gaffes, Boiling Mad, CSPAN, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101118120858.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Kate_Zernike.JPG 20101118113650 Dan Gainor Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:34:00 -0400 All the news fit to print leaves out the man who loaned the paper $250 million. Carlos Slim, Philanthropy, Stephanie Strom, Kenneth Langone, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101118113650.aspx 20101117045314 Lachlan Markay Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:53:00 -0400 William McGowan, Times critic and author of the new book Gray Lady Down, argues that by September 11, 2001, the Times had already established itself as the standard-bearer for "counter-cultural antagonism towards the idea of America." William McGowan, Gray Lady Down, Books, Interview, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101117045314.aspx 20101117021906 Clay Waters Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:19:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes, impatient with Republicans for not sufficiently accommodating Obama during a time of national crisis (i.e. early in his presidency): "I'm going to go out on a limb, at the risk of sounding like I'm expressing an opinion. If there's one time I think people should accommodate each other, it's in times of national crisis. I think the period from late 2008 to early 2009 was just such a period. And I just want to give four examples as to where I think the Republicans did not accommodate....the health care bill. People talk about government takeover and how this was a liberal bill. Well, just ask the liberals how liberal it was." Jackie Calmes, Wilson International Center, CSPAN, Campaign 2008, Barack Obama, Republicans, Obama-Care, Congress, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101117021906.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes.JPG 20101117020955 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:09:00 -0400 Bias doesn't only come from the New York Times. The national media are attacking all the principles the Founding Fathers viewed as important to a strong nation, including cultural values and religious beliefs. Fortunately, there is a way you can stay informed on the media bias against our nation's traditional values just as easily as you stay informed about media bias against free enterprise: The Culture Links newsletter from the MRC's Culture and Media Institute. Culture and Media Institute http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101117020955.aspx 20101116015403 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:54:00 -0400 David Frum, another one of the Times' favorite conservatives: "...you might describe contemporary American politics as a class struggle between those with more education than money against those with more money than education: Jon Stewart's America versus Bill O'Reilly's, Barack Obama versus Sarah Palin." David Frum, Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101116015403.aspx 20101116010037 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:00:00 -0400 Reporters Jackie Calmes and David Herszenhorn let their dislike of tax cuts show: "Republican leaders also made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows to support keeping the rates low for all taxpayers, despite a projected cost of $4 trillion over 10 years....Despite the election-year rhetoric against deficits, other pending measures - like the Bush tax cuts - would add to the debt." Jackie Calmes, David Herszenhorn, Labeling Bias, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101116010037.aspx 20101115031449 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:14:00 -0400 James McKinley Jr.'s hostile, slanted story on a pre-emptive strike by "archconservatives" and "right-wing Republican lawmakers" against shariah law in Oklahoma brought up faulty arguments against the measure while challenging its premises: "But many Muslims said they were more worried about the anti-Muslim mood that fueled the amendment's passage. The vote here follows the controversy over a Christian pastor's aborted plan to burn Korans in Florida and the opposition to an Islamic community center near ground zero in Manhattan." James McKinley Jr., Oklahoma, Sharia Law, Double Standards, Islam, Religion, CAIR, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101115031449.aspx 20101115024608 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:46:00 -0400 Deborah Solomon, who is in charge of the Q&A in the Times Sunday Magazine, treated the constantly hateful and offensive Keith Olbermann with consideration, yet had flayed conservative icon William F. Buckley for "many offensive comments" in a 2004 interview. Keith Olbermann, Deborah Solomon, William F. Buckley, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101115024608.aspx 20101115103359 Tim Graham Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:33:00 -0400 Executive editor Bill Keller has a funny way of expressing humility. His metaphor - that media reporters are "oxpeckers" while he is by inference a massive African mammal - sounded more than a little haughty: "Seriously, my own wife isn't as interested in what I do all day as John Koblin, Michael Calderone, Jacob Bernstein and the rest of our obsessive chroniclers. These guys always remind me of oxpeckers, those little birds that ride on the backs of large African mammals and eat their ticks." Bill Keller, Oxpecker, Media Reporters http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101115103359.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Oxpecker.jpg 20101112032810 Clay Waters Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:28:00 -0400 Also, Frank Rich warns that the “radical right's anger” will target "gays, Latinos and Muslims," and conservatives lie about vote fraud. Frank Rich, Michael Brick, Ian Urbina, Sheryl Gay Stolberg http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101112032810.aspx 20101111015346 Clay Waters Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:53:00 -0400 Former reporter turned columnist Timothy Egan, classy as ever: "Palin no longer has to govern, since quitting halfway through her term in Alaska. Relying on her singular, God-given inability to properly digest facts, she's free to make stuff up without consequence." Timothy Egan, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101111015346.aspx 20101111011013 Clay Waters Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:10:00 -0400 Liberal columnist Gail Collins pays "conservative" columnist David Brooks the ultimate tribute: "This is why Barack Obama likes you so much. (Admit it, when you're around he ignores every other journalist in the room.) It's because he sees you as the kind of sane Republican he was planning to be bipartisan with." , TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101111011013.aspx 20101111105329 Clay Waters Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:53:00 -0400 So much for those sharp, sophisticated Times readers. Editor Gerald Marzorati said at a new media conference that Times subscribers have no clue how much they're spending on the print edition: "We have north of 800,000 subscribers paying north of $700 a year for home delivery. Of course, they don't seem to know that." Gerald Marzorati, Jeff Bercovici, Credit Cards, Subscribers, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101111105329.aspx 20101110025048 Clay Waters Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:50:00 -0400 Thomas Friedman ended a tribute to American creativity and optimism with an arbitrary put down of Fox News: "I keep meeting these people any time I travel outside of Wash-they didn't get the word that you're supposed to be depressed, you're supposed to be on your back, you're supposed to be watching Fox TV, you know, and feeling all kind of hate and venom for President Obama." Thomas Friedman, Fox News, Barack Obama, India http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101110025048.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_Rose_11_09_10.JPG 20101109031506 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:15:00 -0400 Reporter William Yardley celebrates ex-Republican and evident Alaska Senate winner Lisa Murkowski as a realist: "Joe Miller, the Republican nominee, promoted a conservative utopia in the Last Frontier...while Mr. Miller was arguing states' rights, Ms. Murkowski...was talking about the state's reality....She will also embarrass Sarah Palin, whose endorsement of Mr. Miller pushed him to prominence." , TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101109031506.aspx 20101109010442 Clay Waters Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:04:00 -0400 For some reason, the Times finds a local group of Communists positively cuddlesome: "If communists have a reputation for anything, it is seriousness. (And if you have seen old photos of Karl Marx, you know that he did not smile much.) But at the Brecht Forum, a community center on West Street where revolutionaries and radicals gather daily to ponder and to pontificate, they also play. (Smiles abound.)....In a city known for cynicism, the Brecht, which survives on donations, is a surprisingly open and idealistic place." Communism, Brecht Forum, New York City, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101109010442.aspx 20101109110918 Clay Waters Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:09:00 -0400 Then move! Nicholas Kristof argues things are worse off in the United States than Guyana: "The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976....the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana." Nicholas Kristof, Income Inequality, Tax Cuts, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101109110918.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/NicholasKristof.jpg 20101108040835 Clay Waters Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:08:00 -0400 Media reporter Brian Stelter devoted four paragraphs of his 10-paragraph story on Keith Olbermann's return from his suspension by MSNBC to quoting an on-air harangue of Fox News from Olbermann's left-wing colleague, Rachel Maddow. Brian Stelter, Keith Olbermann, Suspension, Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101108040835.aspx 20101108030542 Clay Waters Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:10:00 -0400 Jeremy Peters celebrates success at the far-left Nation that has yet to occur: "Despite all the gloom, could last week's Democratic pummeling actually have a silver lining for The Nation, once home to writers like Henry James, Ezra Pound, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and even Yeats?" Yet when Obama won in 2008, the Times not only didn't predict the rise of National Review, it attacked the magazine's "nastiness." Jeremy Peters, The Nation, National Review, Double Standard, Campaign 2008, Campaign 2010, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101108030542.aspx 20101108023921 Clay Waters Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:39:00 -0400 Michael Cooper "debunks the myths of the midterm" in ways that each happen to make Democratic prospects look not so bleak: “Return to the Republican Fold” (Cooper denied it.) “The Sweeping Mandate” (No way.) “The Lost Youth Vote” (Not so fast.) “A Disaster for the President” (Not necessarily.) Michael Cooper, Barack Obama, Campaign 2010, Myths http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101108023921.aspx 20101105010502 Clay Waters Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:04:00 -0400 Matt Bai on his least favorite kind of Republican: "In the kind of opposition Ms. Palin represents, issues aren't always meant to be addressed through governance, but rather to be deployed as blunt instruments in pursuit of more electoral gains. For the new Republican-led House, that would mean more questions about the president's birth certificate, more subpoenas flowing down Pennsylvania Avenue, more votes on abortion and flag burning and all of that." Matt Bai, Sarah Palin, Republicans, Campaign 2010, Paul Ryan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101105010502.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20101105120627 Clay Waters Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:06:00 -0400 Reporter Jackie Calmes pretends it's a certainty that Obama-care will actually save money: "Republicans also say they will try to deny money to put Mr. Obama's new health care law into effect, though they have not made clear what they would do to make up the cost savings that would be lost if they succeeded in repealing the law." Jackie Calmes, Obama-Care, Gaffes, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101105120627.aspx 20101105113752 Clay Waters Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:37:00 -0400 Reporter Katharine Seelye implausibly celebrates liberal Senator Russ Feingold as a fierce "maverick" independent: " ...a liberal with a fierce streak of independence who crusaded against the influence of money in politics, was toppled Tuesday in a campaign awash in the kind of unregulated cash he had struggled to keep out of the system. And in a poignant twist, the loss came, in part, because independents flocked to his opponent, despite Mr. Feingold's record of one maverick vote after another." Katharine Seelye, Sen. Russ Feingold, Labeling Bias, Independent, Campaign 2012, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101105113752.aspx 20101104024811 Clay Waters Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:48:00 -0400 Former reporter Timothy Egan on Barack Obama, martyr for the free market: "For no matter your view of President Obama, he effectively saved capitalism. And for that, he paid a terrible political price." Timothy Egan, Republicans, Campaign 2012, Obama-care, FDR http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101104024811.aspx 20101104023348 Clay Waters Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:33:00 -0400 "Crib Sheet" columnist Henry Alford gets personal in the Styles section: "Pranksters hijack Sarah Palin's and Glenn Beck's Facebook pages. The giveaway was all the correct grammar." Henry Alford, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Mary Matalin, John Boehner, George W. Bush http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101104023348.aspx 20101104015905 Clay Waters Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:59:00 -0400 In the paper's 2010 state-by-state rundown of election results, "conservative" labels topped "liberal" ones by a margin of 25-2, including identical descriptions by two different reporters of two Western states that last night shifted "even further to the right." Campaign 2010, State by State, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101104015905.aspx 20101104113735 Clay Waters Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:37:00 -0400 The Times ran 52 political briefs in its "Caucus" section over the last two weeks of the campaign, a horrible one for Democrats. Yet only six of those 52 stories were pro-Republican, while 19 favored the losing Democrats. Campaign 2010, Caucus, Republicans, Double Standard, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101104113735.aspx 20101104103538 Clay Waters Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:35:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "One big question is whether Republicans will try to hack away at the bill by gumming up the works through the appropriations process and stopping [Obama-care's] provisions from going into effect. That could result in Washington gridlock, which is exactly what the voters don't want." Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Campaign 2010, Obama-Care, Gridlock, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101104103538.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20101103043041 Clay Waters Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:30:00 -0400 Kim Severson: Unlike the 2008 election, when liberals celebrated the politics of hope and change to address the country's problems and some conservatives began to embrace what would become the Tea Party's brand of revolution, Tuesday's contests were underscored by a deep sense of malaise on all sides....Adding to the grim feel in many polling places was the realization that the most expensive midterm election in history - a record $3.8 billion was spent - brought what appeared to be a new low in civil discourse, voters said. Kim Severson, Campaign 2010, Ohio, Campaign 2008, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101103043041.aspx 20101103041829 Clay Waters Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:18:00 -0400 The paper's Tea Party reporter goes to great lengths to argue that the public is not on their side on taxes, spending, or Obama-care: "And just as Tea Party supporters do not always agree on what the agenda is, most Americans disagree with many of the goals proclaimed by Tea Party candidates." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101103041829.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20101103114722 Clay Waters Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:47:00 -0400 After a huge GOP victory, reporter Jennifer Steinhauer paints a daunting picture of Speaker in waiting John Boehner's task: "Relying on his decades of experience with the inner workings of the House, Mr. Boehner, of Ohio, now has less than two years to show that the Republican Party is the antidote to what ails Washington, with a discordant caucus, a stagnant economy, a hostile White House with veto power and the long shadow of 1994 all looming before him." Jennifer Steinhauer, Campaign 2010, Rep. John Boehner, Speaker of the House, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101103114722.aspx 20101102031547 Clay Waters Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:15:00 -0400 For Election Day 2010 the Times beefs up its endorsements, going against its traditional metropolitan focus to endorse Sen. Barbara Boxer in California and Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada. The partisan tally? 23 Democrats, 2 independents, zero Republicans. Editorial, Campaign 2010, Endorsements, Democrats, Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101102031547.aspx 20101102123914 Clay Waters Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:39:00 -0400 After several exhausting front-page stories bemoaning allegedly massive spending by nonprofit groups headed by Karl Rove, and “anonymous donors” trying to help Republicans “buy an election,” Michael Luo on Election Day noticed that, oh by the way, “Democrats Outspend G.O.P. in TV Ads in House Races.” Michael Luo, Campaign 2010, Anonymous Donors, Double Standards, Democrats http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101102123914.aspx 20101101033549 Clay Waters Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:35:00 -0400 Stark bias from reporter Marc Lacey on a couple divided on Arizona's new immigration law: "Because he serves summonses for a living, owning his own business, Mr. Sotelo tends to be the law-and-order type. Because she has taught the children of illegal immigrants and sees how hard-edged policies affect real people, Mrs. Sotelo tends to be more willing to give." Marc Lacey, Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Double Standards, Honduras, Manuel Zelaya http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101101033549.aspx 20101101025731 Clay Waters Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:57:00 -0400 Dan Barry and Michael Cooper fail to convince with this argument in favor of the "Horatio Alger" character, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "Some Republicans fear losing such a powerful ally in Washington - no matter that his name is Reid - at a time when Nevada is in precarious economic shape." Dan Barry, Michael Cooper, Sharron Angle, Harry Reid, Campaign 2010, Nevada http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101101025731.aspx 20101101124303 Clay Waters Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:43:00 -0400 The Times flatters the cute and clever signs from the "overwhelming" crowd and live blogged the event, which it failed to do for Glenn Beck's recent rally or the huge Tea Party rally of September 12, 2009, while dropping its concern for racial diversity that marked its coverage of the conservative rallies. And what was the former Cat Stevens doing at a rally to restore "sanity"? The Times didn't ask. Brian Stelter, Sabrina Tavernie, Dave Itzkoff, Rally to Restore Sanity, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Comedy Central, Glenn Beck, Double Standards, Protests, Cat Stevens, Fatwa, Salman Rushdie, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101101124303.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/31rally-blog4-articleLarge.jpg 20101029011933 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:19:00 -0400 Congressional reporter Carl Hulse has some chuckles at the expense of "extreme" Republican candidates: “I thought what [the Times pollster] said was interesting about voters being willing to vote for untested or extreme candidates. Well they're going to have a chance in a lot of these House districts. A lot of people with no previous political experience and people who are pushing, you know, what many people would consider a very conservative if not extreme agenda." Carl Hulse, Campaign 2010, Republicans, Congress, Labeling Bias, Extremism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101029011933.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20101029121401 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:13:00 -0400 While one candidate was described in flattering fashion as “a Democrat from the working-class streets of south San Antonio” speaking to voters “in flawless Spanish,” his Republican opponent was seen as being buoyed by “white conservatives” angry at Obama, and having merely “repeated the Republican mantra that only tax cuts and deregulation can create jobs.” James McKinley Jr., Texas, Bill White, Francisco Canseco http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101029121401.aspx 20101028014100 Clay Waters Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:40:00 -0400 Arts reporter Patricia Cohen has paused her patrolling of the intolerant conservative intellectual beat to flatter Obama the "pragmatic...open-minded" intellectual president: "Mr. Kloppenberg explained that he sees Mr. Obama as a kind of philosopher president, a rare breed that can be found only a handful of times in American history." Patricia Cohen, Barack Obama, James Kloppenberg, Intellectuals, Harvard Law Review, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101028014100.aspx 20101028125815 Clay Waters Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:58:00 -0400 Reporters Jim Rutenberg and Megan Thee-Brenan informed their surely disheartened readership that Democrats are losing among all sorts of groups, even women: "Critical parts of the coalition that delivered President Obama to the White House in 2008 and gave Democrats control of Congress in 2006 are switching their allegiance to the Republicans in the final phase of the midterm Congressional elections, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Republicans have wiped out the advantage held by Democrats in recent election cycles among women, Roman Catholics, less affluent Americans and independents." Jim Rutenberg, Mega Thee-Brenan, Polls, Campaign 2010, Women, Republicans, Barack Obama, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101028125815.aspx 20101027025033 Lachlan Markay Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:50:00 -0400 When seeking political neutrality in a discussion of the Tea Party movement, it's probably best to avoid promoting a reporter who consistently suggests that racism undergirds the movement. But that's what the State Department did in selecting Kate Zernike to brief foreign journalists on the Tea Party last Friday. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, State Department Briefing http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101027025033.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Zernike_State_Dept.jpg 20101027023327 Clay Waters Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:33:00 -0400 A neutral headline hides a warm profile by Kirk Johnson of Susan Daggett, wife of Democratic incumbent Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado. Western-based reporter Johnson has a history of reporting that's skewed against conservative candidates. Kirk Johnson, Colorado, Conservatives, Campaign 2010, Senate, Susan Daggett, Gays, Michael Bennet, Ken Buck http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101027023327.aspx 20101027121015 Clay Waters Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:09:00 -0400 Ian Urbina blames conservatives for forwarding myths of vote fraud: "In 2006, conservative activists repeatedly claimed that the problem of people casting fraudulent votes was so widespread that it was corrupting the political process and possibly costing their candidates victories. The accusations turned out to be largely false, but they led to a heated debate, with voting rights groups claiming that the accusations were crippling voter registration drives and squelching turnout." Ian Urbina, Vote Fraud, Campaign 2012, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101027121015.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Vote_Fraud_Milwaukee.jpg 20101026034901 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:48:00 -0400 The Times covers no other political issue with less concern for balance than The Dream Act, which would provide amnesty for illegal immigrants who come into the country as children, provided they enroll in college. Maggie Jones, Dream Act, Illegal Immigration, Sunday Magazine, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101026034901.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Leslie.jpg 20101026024753 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:47:00 -0400 Deborah Solomon to Melinda Gates, co-chair of a foundation working for women's health in developing countries: "Do you think the pope is hurting efforts on behalf of women's health by preaching against the use of birth control?...As a champion of women's health, you presumably favor abortion rights?" Deborah Solomon, Melinda Gates, Sunday Magazine, Q&A, Abortion, Catholicism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101026024753.aspx 20101026125530 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:55:00 -0400 Inserting pearls of liberal wisdom into his ethical advice: "I believe, for example, nobody may honorably work for a tobacco company, the maker of a toxic product that, used as directed, annually kills 400,000 Americans." Randy Cohen, Ethicist Columnist, Tobacco Companies http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101026125530.aspx 20101026123422 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:34:00 -0400 Reporter David Herszenhorn reveals his big-government mindset, seeing only the bad side of potential budget cuts: "And for Americans still furious over the weak economic recovery, the obvious question is: How much worse will things become if and when the budget guillotine falls here? Could cuts of British magnitude be in the offing?" David Herszenhorn, Spending, Budget Cuts, Britain http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101026123422.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn2new.jpg 20101025032353 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:23:00 -0400 Even Democrats are disowning a Democratic ad attacking Rand Paul's Christian faith, but Katharine Seelye begins by accusing Paul of distortion: "Even as Mr. Paul denounces the commercial, he is extending its life. He may be distorting its words - it does not mention abortion or Mr. Paul's religion or his family - but he has in effect hijacked it to defend himself, raise money and fire up his base." Katharine Seelye, Aqua Buddha, Kentucky, Campaign 2010, Bias by Omission, Rand Paul, Jack Conway, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101025032353.aspx 20101025030112 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:00:00 -0400 Former president George W. Bush can't even put exhibits in his own presidential center without offending some leftists. Reporter Michael Brick in Dallas handed some of them a megaphone to complain about the megaphone Bush used to address rescue workers from the rubble of the World Trade Center three days after the attacks. Michael Brick, Texas, SMU, George W. Bush, Library http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101025030112.aspx 20101025020423 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:04:00 -0400 Maureen Dowd's opinion on how the Senate dealt with the Thomas-Hill controversy hasn't changed since she covered it as a Washington reporter for the Times: "It's too late to relitigate the shameful Thomas-Hill hearings. We're stuck with a justice-for-life who lied his way onto the bench with the help of bullying Republicans and cowed Democrats." Maureen Dowd, Clarence Thomas, Ginny Thomas, Anita Hill http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101025020423.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MaureenDowd.jpg 20101022102213 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:22:00 -0400 "Moderate" Republicans fear the takeover of conservatives in Kansas, suggests the scion of the Times publisher, also the paper's bureau chief in Kansas City, in a story crammed with extraneous "conservative" labels: "And moderate Republicans in the Legislature, many of whom survived ouster campaigns from within the party this year after voting with Democrats to temporarily increase sales tax, are bracing for what they fear could become a permanent political shift." A.G. Sulzberger, Kansas, Conservatives, Labeling Bias, Sam Brownback, Campaign 2010, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101022102213.aspx 20101022094333 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:43:00 -0400 The Times leads with more scary wealthy anonymous Republican donors giving to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which the Obama administration has made its latest Public Enemy No. 1#: "The annual tax returns that the chamber releases include a list of all donations over $5,000, including 21 in 2008 that each exceed $1 million, one of them for $15 million. However, the chamber omits the donors' names....These records show that while the chamber boasts of representing more than three million businesses, and having approximately 300,000 members, nearly half of its $140 million in contributions in 2008 came from just 45 donors. Many of those large donations coincided with lobbying or political campaigns that potentially affected the donors." Eric Lichtblau, Mike McIntire, Don van Natta, Campaign 2010, Chamber of Commerce, Double Standards, Fundraising http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101022094333.aspx 20101022091331 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:13:00 -0400 Gail Collins: "If the Republicans take the House, the country will realize not only that every speaker is doomed to become a caricature of themselves, but also that the caricature can be way, way worse than Pelosi." Gail Collins, David Brooks, Joe Miller, Nancy Pelosi, Global Warming http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101022091331.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.jpg 20101021025027 Clay Waters Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:50:00 -0400 Maureen Dowd not only finds female Republican candidates to be "Mean Girls," but they are ignorant as well: "But now another famous beauty with glowing skin and a powerful current, Sarah Palin, has made ignorance fashionable." Maureen Dowd, Sarah Palin, Mean Girls, Marilyn Monroe, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101021025027.aspx 20101021022739 Clay Waters Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:27:00 -0400 "The nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization" teamed up with an unlabeled left-wing group to accuse the Tea Party of racism two weeks before an election, and the Times' Tea Party-beat reporter Kate Zernike went along for the ride, forwarding an unsubstantiated example of racism that the Times itself has previously denied. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Racism, NAACP, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101021022739.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20101021015219 Clay Waters Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:52:00 -0400 John Broder again insults those who doubt the view that man is causing the earth's temperature to rise with harmful results, setting up two fundamentalist Christians and skeptics as inviting targets of liberal disdain. John Broder, Global Warming, Christianity, Oil Industry, Tea Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101021015219.aspx 20101020015517 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:55:00 -0400 David Herszenhorn twice chided G.O.P. campaign rhetoric on spending as "simplistic," dubiously claimed that repealing Obama-care would cost money, and lamented that the price of extending the Bush tax cuts would be "astronomical." David Herszenhorn, Campaign 2010, Republicans, Spending http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101020015517.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn2new.jpg 20101020115128 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:51:00 -0400 Double standards: The Times lets Democratic congressional baron John Dingell lament the nasty political climate that means "He now faces a wealthy cardiologist with Tea Party leanings, and confrontations with detractors, some of whom take to bellowing....There is the inevitable question of why he bothers." Meanwhile, conservative Republican Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is a "polarizing" figure who makes controversial statements. Jennifer Steinhauer, John Dingell, Monica Davey, Michele Bachmann, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101020115128.aspx 20101019044658 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:46:00 -0400 A long nytimes.com story by Michael Shear almost ignores Democratic campaign controversies but found at least 10 incidents worth mentioning on the Republican side. Michael Shear, Campaign 2010, Double Standards, Sharron Angle, Maurice Hinchey, Joe Miller, Rand Paul, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101019044658.aspx 20101019015003 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:49:00 -0400 Michael Cooper tries to get out the word on Obama's tax cuts before it's too late: "What if a president cut Americans' income taxes by $116 billion and nobody noticed?....At Pig Pickin' and Politickin', a barbecue-fed rally organized here last week by a Republican women's club, a half-dozen guests were asked by a reporter what had happened to their taxes since President Obama took office....In a troubling sign for Democrats as they head into the midterm elections, their signature tax cut of the past two years, which decreased income taxes by up to $400 a year for individuals and $800 for married couples, has gone largely unnoticed." Michael Cooper, Economy, Barack Obama, Tax Cuts, Double Standards, George W. Bush http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101019015003.aspx 20101019123756 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:37:00 -0400 Times columnist Ross Douthat summarizes four comforting stories liberals tell themselves about the Tea Party - all four of which have been told by Times reporters to their readership: #1 The Tea Parties Are Driving Republicans Off a Political Cliff; #2 The Tea Parties Are Puppets of the Sinister Rich; #3 The Tea Parties Are Just The John Birch Society All Over Again; #4 The Tea Partiers Are Hypocrites Ross Douthat, Tea Party, Liberals, Kate Zernike, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101019123756.aspx 20101018032625 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:26:00 -0400 Jill Abramson finds the link between Republican-affiliated groups in 2010 and the scourge of Watergate: "But the fund-raising practices that earned people convictions in Watergate - giving direct corporate money to a campaign and doing so secretly - are back in a different form in 2010." Jill Abramson, Anonymous Donors, Richard Nixon, Double Standards, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101018032625.aspx 20101018115404 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:53:00 -0400 Frank Rich goes from Carl Paladino, to Glenn Beck, to Sarah Palin, and back to Paladino in a free-form smear attempt that blames conservatives for past, present, and future violence: "But in the final stretch of 2010, the radical right's anger is becoming less focused, more free-floating - more likely to be aimed at 'government' in general, whatever the location or officials in charge. The anger is also more likely to claim minorities like gays, Latinos and Muslims as collateral damage." Frank Rich, Campaign 2010, Carl Paladino, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Gays, Holocaust Shooter http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101018115404.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20101018110511 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:05:00 -0400 Michael Luo tries again: "Problems with the I.R.S. could lead to tax penalties and revocation of tax-exempt status. But nonprofit groups engaging heavily in express advocacy could also run into issues with the Federal Election Commission....But if most of a group's spending seems to be on express advocacy, even the Republican commissioners would probably have to scrutinize the group, lawyers said." Michael Luo, Campaign 2010, Anonymous Donors, Double Standards, Barack Obama, IRS http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101018110511.aspx 20101015023842 Clay Waters Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:38:00 -0400 Plus: Frank Rich on the "useful idiots" of the GOP, and the non-partisan warnings of Obama the Wise. Tea Party, James Traub, Frank Rich, Michael Shear http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101015023842.aspx 20101014020754 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:07:00 -0400 Reporter Michael Shear sounded pretty excited in his blog post about an Obama fundraising trip to Las Vegas: "Democratic Contest: Go to Vegas, Meet Obama." But Shear left out that Obama chided college students this year not "to blow a bunch of cash on Vegas." Barack Obama, Michael Shear, Las Vegas, Bias by Omission, Fundraising http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101014020754.aspx 20101014112255 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:22:00 -0400 Reporters Carl Hulse and Jeff Zeleny offer some seriously strained hypotheticals, like "last-minute missteps," in the defense of the idea that Democrats could hold on to control of the House of Representatives. Carl Hulse, Campaign 2010, Jeff Zeleny, Republicans, Congress, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101014112255.aspx 20101014102040 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:20:00 -0400 "Was it a Sarah Palin moment? Christine O'Donnell, the Republican Senate candidate in Delaware, stumbled during the debate tonight when asked for a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with." Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Campaign 2010, Michael Shear, Sarah Palin http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101014102040.aspx 20101013010652 Clay Waters Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:04:00 -0400 Taking a cue from liberal interest groups and the Obama White House, the Times puts some supposedly scary stuff on its front page: "Like many of the other groups with anodyne names engaged in the battle to control Congress, it does not have to identify its donors, keeping them - and their possible motivations - shrouded from the public." But the Times wasn't so worried about anonymous donors to Obama's 2008 campaign. Ginny Thomas, Jackie Calmes, Jim Rutenberg, Campaign Donations, Anonymous, Double Standards, Campaign 2008, Campaign 2010, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101013010652.aspx 20101012123617 Brent Baker Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:36:00 -0400 Columnist Paul Krugman was tactful as ever as a panelist on ABC's Sunday political talk show "This Week": "There are some seriously strange people running, thanks to the Tea Party." Paul Krugman,Tea Party, Barack Obama, ABC http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101012123617.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2010-10-10-ABC-TW-Krugman.jpg 20101012121710 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:17:00 -0400 Reporter David Herszenhorn finds anger and voter ignorance at only one end of the political spectrum, and has time for a fact-check of conservative claims: "The voters of Pennsylvania are angry at Washington. And Pat Toomey, the Republican nominee for United States Senate, is glad to stoke the fury....Some of [Toomey's] assertions are fair. Some are a stretch but defensible. Others are false, like Mr. Toomey's claim that a recent law passed by Congress to aid small businesses would have the federal government buy a stake in local banks....Details, however, are beside the point. Anger is defining this race." David Herszenhorn, Campaign 2010, Republicans, Anger, Pennsylvania, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101012121710.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn2new.jpg 20101011034601 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:45:00 -0400 Two reporters file separate stories dismissing the import of a left-wing attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for allegedly allowing foreign money to be used in U.S. elections, with one lamenting how a blog post can be picked up by "like-minded groups and become political fodder." Like-minded groups like the Times own editorial page. Eric Lichtblau, Peter Baker, Chamber of Commerce, Defense, Barack Obama, Foreign Donations http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101011034601.aspx 20101011012411 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:24:00 -0400 The Times ironically accuses anti-Islamic blogger Pamela Geller for having "quoted selectively" the controversial imam, and accuse her of spreading "misimpressions that the project was at the World Trade Center site and would solely house a prayer space." It also hinted why Geller is popular: She ran the cartoons of Muhammad that the Times and other outlets refused to. Pamela Geller, Ground Zero Mosque, Anne Barnard, Alan Feuer, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101011012411.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Geller2.jpg 20101011123820 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:38:00 -0400 Blogger Mickey Kaus undermines the Times' grand theory on conservative commentator Ann Coulter "trotting out a new image", saying it "might strike some as a sleazy and condescending attempt to discredit a conservative figure whose views are more sensible...than the New York Times...has ever admitted, in part because it didn't bother to pay attention! Those people would be right." Ann Coulter, Laura Holson, Tea Party, Mickey Kaus, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101011123820.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Coulter.jpg 20101008011519 Clay Waters Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:15:00 -0400 New York Times Magazine contributor James Traub on the Tea Party candidates: "But it also strikes me that there's a kind of war on competence and professionalism going on here. And these insurgent candidates, one of the biggest things they have to advertise is, they've never done it before." , TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101008011519.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/James_Traub_Parker_Spitzer.JPG 20101008105328 Clay Waters Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:53:00 -0400 Michael Luo's wink-wink, nudge-nudge on the rush of campaign spending from corporations currently benefiting Republican issues and candidates: "It remains to be seen whether the I.R.S. or the elections commission will scrutinize their actions more closely." Michael Luo, Campaign 2010, Double Standards, Nonprofits, Campaign Finance, IRS http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101008105328.aspx 20101007013410 Clay Waters Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:34:00 -0400 "Flood of Campaign Cash Becomes the Issue," reads the Times online headline over a Michael Shear story. And just how did it "become the issue"? Because the Times and the Democrats want it to be the issue, given that the cash is flowing to Republicans: "In January, during his first State of the Union address, President Obama predicted that a U.S. Supreme Court decision would 'open the floodgates' of money into campaigns. He warned against elections that are 'bankrolled' by powerful interests." Michael Shear, Campaign Finance, Republicans, Double Standards, SEIU, Campaign 2010 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101007013410.aspx 20101007124458 Clay Waters Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:44:00 -0400 Kirk Johnson on the Democrats' bringing up "wedge issue" like abortion to keep Democratic voters on their side come November: "But whether Mr. Buck is out of touch, or exactly in touch with his supporters, he has staked out some very conservative positions." Kirk Johnson, Colorado, Conservatives, Campaign 2010, Labeling Bias, Abortion http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101007124458.aspx 20101007113747 Clay Waters Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:37:00 -0400 The Times supports the First Amendment rights of the despicable "God Hates Fags" funeral picketers, led by Fred Phelps, but other kinds of free speech like campaign advertising by corporations are just too offensive for the Times to defend. Free Speech, Supreme Court, Fred Phelps, New York Times Company, Adam Liptak, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101007113747.aspx 20101006010341 Clay Waters Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:03:00 -0400 Times economics writer David Leonhardt reacted to news that McDonald's may drop health insurance for its workers because of Obama-care by blaming the status quo: "...it does represent progress. The fact that it is beginning to disrupt the status quo - that some insurance policies will eventually be eliminated and some inefficient insurers will have to leave the market altogether - is all the proof we need." David Leonhardt, Obama-care, Life Expectancy, McDonald's, Health Insurance http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101006010341.aspx 20101006112420 Clay Waters Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:24:00 -0400 Rep. Grayson has accused the Republicans of wanting sick people to die quickly and compared them to Neanderthals and the Taliban. But you wouldn't get a hint of that from the Times' awkward, uninformative headline. Damien Cave, Campaign 2010, Alan Grayson, Florida, Headlines, Carl Paladino http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101006112420.aspx 20101006110813 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:03:00 -0400 Times Editor Bill Keller won't be sending us money anytime soon, so we're counting on you! Your gift will help Times Watch to continue providing the ammunition the conservative movement needs to fight the left's most powerful weapons: the liberal media. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101006110813.aspx 20101005124325 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:43:00 -0400 Reporter Jeremy Peters pens a wholly positive story on the symbiotic relationship between local newspapers and medical marijuana dealerships: "...in states like Colorado, California and Montana where use of the drug for health purposes is legal, newspapers - particularly alternative weeklies - have rushed to woo marijuana providers." Jeremy Peters, Medical Marijuana, Newspapers, Advertising, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101005124325.aspx 20101005102851 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:28:00 -0400 Jeremy Peters celebrates Obama confidante and former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and barely mentions why she was forced out: "During her 15-month stay in Washington, Ms. Rogers broke molds. She was the first black person to occupy the position of social secretary. She approached the job with egalitarian visions of returning the 'people's house' to the people themselves. And she cut a high-wattage public profile - in Chanel heels and Comme des Garçons evening dresses - for a job that was traditionally conducted out of public view....Ms. Rogers, 51, elegant and seemingly unflappable, is certainly relishing her newfound liberation." Desiree Rogers, Jeremy Peters, Ebony, Jet, White House http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101005102851.aspx 20101005095912 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:59:00 -0400 Columnist Paul Krugman brings up a racist movie in his snide note to the Tea Party movement: "A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you're starring in 'The Birth of a Nation,' but you're actually just extras in a remake of 'Citizen Kane.'" Paul Krugman, Tea Party, Fox News, David Frum, AEI http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101005095912.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20101004024938 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:49:00 -0400 In California, reporter Adam Nagourney forwards phony Democratic concerns over a former illegal immigrant housekeeper employed by Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman: "The episode has proved a distracting embarrassment that has raised questions about Ms. Whitman's credibility and has threatened to derail a key element of any strategy to win election in a largely Democratic state: appealing to Latino voters. As she has sought to explain what happened, Ms. Whitman said she had fired the housekeeper on the spot, even as she described the maid as a close part of her family, and seemed undisturbed by the idea that her onetime friend and employee might be deported." Adam Nagourney, Meg Whitman, California, Maid, Illegal Immigration http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101004024938.aspx 20101004021617 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:16:00 -0400 Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike on the Tea Party canon, including Friedrich Hayek, a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1974 who died in 1992: "But when it comes to ideology, it has reached back to dusty bookshelves for long-dormant ideas. It has resurrected once-obscure texts by dead writers..." She's not very good on "the rule of law" either. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Friedrich Hayek, Books, Economics, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101004021617.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20101004121350 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:13:00 -0400 Even more ill-humored than usual, the Times' Sunday columnist rails against Christine O'Donnell, Michael Steele and the rest of the "useful idiots" in a Republican Party that routinely demonizes minorities. Frank Rich, Barack Obama, Campaign 2010, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101004121350.aspx 20101004111353 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:13:00 -0400 Labor reporter Steven Greenhouse led his story on the left-wing "One Nation" rally with a specific and generous crowd estimate. Yet the Times didn't get into specifics when it came to far larger rallies held by the conservative movement. Steven Greenhouse, One Nation, Protest, Double Standards, Glenn Beck, Unions http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101004111353.aspx 20101004095916 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:59:00 -0400 Fox News contributor Liz Trotta summarizes Times Watch findings on Saturday: "What they did, is they looked at seven Supreme Court nominees from 1991 to 2010, that's four Democrats and three Republicans....the figures are interesting, because you can see that they have one figure tells us that they're 10-to-1 more likely, that is the Times, to describe the Republicans as conservatives as they would describe the Democrats as liberal." Supreme Court, Special Report, Labeling Bias, Fox News, Liz Trotta, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101004095916.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Uma_Trotta_Fox_SC_Study_10_02_10.JPG 20101002081435 Clay Waters Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:14:00 -0400 Plus Tea Party Racism and Disappearing Republican Moderates Tea Party, Obama-Care, Kate Zernike, Kevin Sack, Racism, Quotes of Note http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101002081435.aspx 20101001021242 Clay Waters Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:12:00 -0400 A tale of two chiefs of staff, one for a top Republican, one for the top Democrat: "[Barry] Jackson, the chief of staff to Mr. Boehner, the House Republican leader from Ohio, is shaggy-haired and dough-faced...He is rumpled and pudgy..." Barack Obama, John Boehner, Barry Jackson, Pete Rouse, Double Standards, Ashley Parker, Sheryl Gay Stolberg http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101001021242.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/ChiefsOfStaff.jpg 20101001120604 Clay Waters Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:05:00 -0400 Michael Slackman on the disillusionment felt by some East Germans over reunification: "Yet no one here is whitewashing the disappointment, the sense even now, two decades later, of feeling treated as immigrants in their own country, of the deeply insulting perception that their values - forged in a socialist state - were expunged and delegitimized." Michael Slackman, Communism, Reunification, East Germany, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101001120604.aspx 20101001104507 Clay Waters Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:45:00 -0400 Reporter Damien Cave innocently ponders why criticisms of conservative Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio aren't penetrating. What criticisms? Glad you asked: "Another detail that has surprised Mr. Rubio's critics is the degree to which he has sidestepped criticism of his own financial management. Early accusations that he misused Republican Party credit cards - spending money on trips and personal grooming during and after his time as speaker of the Florida House - appears to have done his image only minimal damage." Damien Cave, Campaign 2010, Florida, Marco Rubio, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20101001104507.aspx 20100930035832 Tim Graham Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:58:00 -0400 Washington reporter Jackie Calmes grades the Obama administration on a very generous curve: "...most economists who aren't partisan think we will avoid a double-dip recession, but, and that the stimulus did work, but it, you know - maybe should have been more of it, or better designed." Jackie Calmes, Economy, Stimulus, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100930035832.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2010-09-24-PBS-WW-Calmes.jpg 20100930104319 Clay Waters Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:43:00 -0400 Backhanded praise for Glenn Beck, leader of "the ultraconservative opposition to President Obama," from political profiler Mark Leibovich: "Beck rarely speaks with the squinty-eyed certainty or smugness of Rush Limbaugh or his fellow Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity." Glenn Beck, Michael Leibovich, Profile, Sunday Magazine http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100930104319.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/03beck-t_CA0-articleInline.jpg 20100929032330 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:23:00 -0400 A Times Watch special report demonstrates how, for almost 20 years, the New York Times has covered Supreme Court fights with a heavy finger on the scales of justice, tipping the balance. The Times demonstrated a 10-1 disparity in labeling “conservative” justices nominated by Republicans compared to “liberal” ones nominated by Democrats. Supreme Court, Special Report, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100929032330.aspx 20100929111122 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:11:00 -0400 The paper's main economics writer (and tax-hike supporter) finds Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan "credible" and credits him for offering specifics. By contrast, Times economics columnist/partisan hack Paul Krugman dismissed Ryan as offering economic "flimflam sauce." David Leonhardt, Budget, Paul Ryan, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100929111122.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Leonhardt_2.jpg 20100929104638 Clay Waters Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:46:00 -0400 Michael Barbaro on the "tainted past" of Carl Paladino's Tea Party staffers: "And the issue highlights a growing problem across the country for the Tea Party, which has backed Mr. Paladino: the outsider status and ragtag style that have fueled many of the movement's best-known candidacies this election season often come with unexpected personal baggage." Michael Barbaro, Carl Paladino, Tea Party, New York State, Campaign 2010, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100929104638.aspx 20100928120624 Clay Waters Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:06:00 -0400 A thin front-page story spun hard for moderate Republican Lisa Murkowski's write-in campaign to retain her Alaska Senate seat: "So why do plenty of people here, from analysts to many rank-and-file Republicans, think that Ms. Murkowski, 53, who first came to office through the easiest route imaginable (her father, then the governor, appointed her in 2002), could well pull off the impossible? Because in a matter of weeks, she has morphed from establishment incumbent to renegade underdog." Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, Campaign 2010, Tea Party, Senate, William Yardley http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100928120624.aspx 20100928113030 Clay Waters Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:30:00 -0400 Is the Times scared? "The pledge takes the country backward - a place no one should want to go." Editorial, Campaign 2010, Republicans, Pledge to America http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100928113030.aspx 20100928101807 Clay Waters Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:18:00 -0400 "The greed that Mr. Stone so vividly conveyed in his first 'Wall Street' movie got completely out of hand. Much of the trading that went on in the prelude to the crisis was almost nihilistic, utterly lacking any redeeming virtue. Villains abounded." Joe Nocera, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Movies, Oliver Stone, Wall Street http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100928101807.aspx 20100927121658 Clay Waters Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:16:00 -0400 Reporter Michael Cooper found no one to criticize an "effective" Obama-administration make-work program that paid the salaries of unemployed people for government and private-sector jobs: "Tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs within weeks unless Congress extends one of the more effective job-creating programs in the $787 billion stimulus act: a $1 billion New Deal-style program that directly paid the salaries of unemployed people so they could get jobs in government, at nonprofit organizations and at many small businesses." Michael Cooper, Stimulus, Economy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100927121658.aspx 20100927113140 Clay Waters Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:31:00 -0400 "Naming names" as bad as exploiting teen daughters and anti-Semitism? Arts reporter Randy Kennedy ponders the evils of exposing Communists and defenders of Stalinist tyranny: "Should we think 'On the Waterfront' a lesser movie, or even see it in a different light, because it was directed and written by two men, Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, who named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee?" Elia Kazan, Randy Kennedy, Communism, Naming Names, Movies, Ernest Withers, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100927113140.aspx 20100924040658 Clay Waters Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:06:00 -0400 Friday's front-page expose was only the latest in a series of front-page stories hammering Republican fundraising groups - and seemingly only Republican fundraising groups - as a promising election cycle approaches for the G.O.P. Could there be a connection? Mike McIntire, GOP, Fundraising, Karl Rove, Double Standards, Crossroads, Americans for Job Security http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100924040658.aspx 20100924024911 Clay Waters Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:51:00 -0400 Will the new "GOP Pledge" help Republicans in November? Of course not! Here's David Herszenhorn in a story originally headlined: “Some Say G.O.P. Pledge to Voters Would Increase Deficit.” "But even conservative-leaning budget and policy analysts said that the Republican blueprint, as drafted, would lead to bigger, not smaller, deficits and that it did not contain the concrete, politically difficult steps needed to alter the nation's fiscal trajectory." David Herszenhorn, Congress, Campaign 2010, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100924024911.aspx 20100923014554 Clay Waters Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:45:00 -0400 Once again, immigration-beat reporter Julia Preston finds "dozens of college students" protesting in South Beach worth a 1,200-word story: "Dozens of college students lay down on South Beach on Sunday afternoon, but not to sunbathe. Most were immigrants in this country illegally, and their bodies, fully clothed, formed giant letters that spelled out a message for Floridians and one of their senators, complete with a human exclamation point: Call [Fla. Sen. George] LeMieux!" Julia Preston, Illegal Immigration, Education, Amnesty, Protests, Dream Act http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100923014554.aspx 20100923010430 Clay Waters Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:04:00 -0400 "But anti-American sentiment, once pervasive in these neighborhoods, seems to have been all but erased since the election of Mr. Obama, who has proved to be a powerful symbol of hope here and a powerful diplomatic tool." Barack Obama, France, Banlieues, Scott Savare http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100923010430.aspx 20100923112506 Clay Waters Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:25:00 -0400 Peter Goodman should find a good home at HuffPo, given his Marxist-infused reporting for the Times on America's “faith in unfettered markets” and Hummers as “a sign of wasteful decadence." Peter Goodman, Arianna Huffington, Economy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100923112506.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Peter Goodman.jpg 20100923105019 Clay Waters Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:50:00 -0400 "For Many Families, Health Care Relief Begins Today" is one of four profiles the Times featured on the front of the National section to celebrate the day many of its regulations (the Times calls them "protections") take effect. Kevin Sack, Obama-care, Health, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100923105019.aspx 20100922025235 Clay Waters Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:52:00 -0400 According to reporter Dan Frosch, tax cuts on the ballot in Colorado are "terrifying," even for conservatives who are usually "seduced" by them: "For politicians and civic groups, even those who support limited government, those numbers are terrifying enough to have spurred a voter outreach effort by elected officials. Indeed, many officials fear that the proposals could actually be passed by unwitting voters, particularly Republicans, who might be seduced by tax cuts." Dan Frosch, Taxes, Colorado, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100922025235.aspx 20100922012747 Clay Waters Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:27:00 -0400 Thomas Friedman: "Some of my Chinese friends chide me for overidealizing China. I tell them: 'Guilty as charged.'" Thomas Friedman, Autocracy, China, Communism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100922012747.aspx 20100921053034 Clay Waters Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:30:00 -0400 The page that gave you the timeless prose of Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman celebrates with a video of serial misleader Joe Wilson talking about his notoriously flawed anti-war, anti-Bush op-ed from July 2003, "What I Didn't Find in Africa." Opinion, Anniversary, Maureen Dowd, Joe Wilson, Paul Krugman, Arthur Sulzberger http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100921053034.aspx 20100921045126 Clay Waters Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:51:00 -0400 The Times loved director Davis Guggenheim's Al Gore jeremiad "An Inconvenient Truth," with the Times' chief movie critic calling it "a necessary movie." But Trip Gabriel found early detractors for "Waiting for Superman," his new movie on corrupt teachers' unions, for "sometimes underplaying important nuances." Trip Gabriel, Education, Movies, "Waiting For Superman," "An Inconvenient Truth," Double Standards, A.O. Scott, Davis Guggenheim, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100921045126.aspx 20100921040000 Clay Waters Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:59:00 -0400 Reporter David Kocieniewski rejects "conservative advocacy" concerns that a tax hike would cripple small business" "Despite that emotional appeal, Internal Revenue Service statistics indicate that only 3 percent of small businesses would be subject to the higher tax, and many studies of previous tax increases suggest that it would have minimal impact on hiring." David Kocieniewski, Tax Cuts, Repeal, Small Business http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100921040000.aspx 20100921032645 Clay Waters Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:26:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes and Michael Shear don't stint when it came to sticking unflattering labels on the Tea Party: "The Democratic strategist said voters did not now see much threat to them from a Republican takeover of Congress, even though some Tea Party-backed candidates and other Republicans have taken positions that many voters consider extreme, like shutting down the government to get their way, privatizing Social Security and Medicare and ending unemployment insurance." Jackie Calmes, Michael Shear, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Labeling Bias, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100921032645.aspx 20100921015158 Clay Waters Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:51:00 -0400 Health reporter Robert Pear passes along some questionable, out-dated "hurdles" that he claims stand in the way of a repeal of Obama-care: "The law responds to a genuine need....The health care law saves money." I guess that's why it's so popular with the American public. Robert Pear, Obama-Care, Repeal, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100921015158.aspx 20100920033003 Clay Waters Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:29:00 -0400 The Times leads Sunday with the soothing "moderation" of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg against harmful Tea Party anger: "In an election year when anger and mistrust have upended races across the country, toppling moderates and elevating white-hot partisans..." But why are almost all of Bloomberg's favorite politicians liberals and Democrats? Michael Barbaro, Michael Bloomberg, Tea Party, Congress, Campaign 2010 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100920033003.aspx 20100920020557 Clay Waters Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:05:00 -0400 Scoping out Republican party prospects, Kate Zernike condescends to the Tea Party: "So you're a Republican candidate and you want to take advantage of the Tea Party energy that jolted once-sleepy primaries. But you aren't sure whether that means you have to take a stand against masturbation or urge your supporters to gather their bayonets - tactics that seem to have worked for a few Tea Party candidates so far." Kate Zernike, Jennifer Steinhauer, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100920020557.aspx 20100920012424 Clay Waters Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:24:00 -0400 Kate Zernike agrees the Tea Party has some roots in the George Wallace for President campaign: "This is why people again have trouble separating race and the Tea Party movement, because there is this feeling of, 'We want to keep ours,' and there is very much an 'Us vs. Them,' and when you talk about 'them,' it always brings up, 'the them' are the poor, the disadvantaged, blacks, etc. And now I would say illegal immigrants as well." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Book, "Boiling Mad", Racism, C-Span http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100920012424.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike_CSPAN.jpg 20100920115055 Clay Waters Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:50:00 -0400 The Times rehashes a lament that goes back at least 14 years: "The few remaining Republican centrists in the Senate were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Michael N. Castle of Delaware, a longtime and reliable moderate voice who could provide some counterbalance to the wave of conservatives poised to enter Congress and the steadily rightward shift of party leaders." David Herszenhorn, Carl Hulse, Republicans, Moderates, Senate, Maine, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100920115055.aspx 20100917024535 Clay Waters Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:45:00 -0400 In "Boiling Mad," her new book on the Tea Party, reporter Kate Zernike proves she still has a sharp eye for Tea Party racism, no matter how unsubstantiated, blaming the Tea Party movement for any racial slurs that may have taken place during the Obama-care protest on Capitol Hill: "It was difficult, if not disingenuous, for the Tea Party groups to try to disown the behavior....after saying for months that anybody could be a Tea Party leader, they could not suddenly dismiss as faux Tea Partiers those protesters who made them look bad." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Book, "Boiling Mad", Racism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100917024535.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Boiling_Mad.JPG 20100917021331 Clay Waters Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:13:00 -0400 Jeff Zeleny on why people think Obama is a Muslim: "Rush Limbaugh talks about it all the time." No, he doesn't. And financial writer Floyd Norris reminisces: "One thing that struck me about this campaign has been the virulence of the campaign. We saw a cover story in Forbes this week basically questioning whether Obama is a real American. I went back and looked, and it's remarkable how similar the campaign was to the campaign in '34, when the Democrats were running in a mid-term election after Roosevelt had defeated Hoover." Sam Roberts, Jeff Zeleny, Floyd Norris, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Muslim, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100917021331.aspx 20100917115622 Clay Waters Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:56:00 -0400 Krugman switches principles. After years of insisting Obama's deficits weren't a problem, he uses the issue as a hammer to viciously attack Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell's "extortion" - his insistence on retaining all the Bush tax cuts, for the "wealthy" as well as the middle class. Paul Krugman, Megan McArdle, Hypocrisy, Budget Deficits, Mitch McConnell http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100917115622.aspx 20100917111406 Clay Waters Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:14:00 -0400 McKinley shows his continuing faith in Democrat Bill White: "Yet recent polls suggest Texas has a horse race for the governor's office after all. The Democratic candidate, former Mayor Bill White of Houston, has pulled within striking distance of the incumbent Republican, Rick Perry, trailing by no more than 6 percentage points in four polls. The tightening contest comes as Texas feels the effects of the national economic crisis, weakening one of Mr. Perry's chief arguments for re-election: that his fiscally conservative policies have buffered the state from the worst of the recession." James McKinley Jr., Texas, Bill White, Rick Perry, Governor http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100917111406.aspx 20100916043719 Tim Graham Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:28:00 -0400 "They never report on me, even though it would seem they should, because people who would watch my show tend to be like the same people who would read The New York Times." Bill Maher, Larry King, New York Times http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100916043719.aspx 20100916035541 Clay Waters Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:55:00 -0400 Matt Bai: "White House advisers contend that as the conservative insinuations about Mr. Obama grow more pronounced, the extremism that underlies them will become self-evident to the public." Matt Bai, Republicans, Campaign 2010, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100916035541.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20100916031745 Clay Waters Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:17:00 -0400 Reporter Kate Zernike warns that Sen. Jim DeMint "could be a model for how the two might co-exist - or an example of how the drive for ideological purity could turn the Republicans into a niche party." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Jim DeMint, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100916031745.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100916024705 Clay Waters Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:46:00 -0400 The Times paints a hungover Delaware Republican Party in regret over the surprise nomination of a Tea Party candidate and Sarah Palin endorsee: "In the bright light of Wednesday morning, Christine O'Donnell, whose Republican primary victory upended the calculus for future control of the United State Senate, became quickly known to Americans as the woman who once made dire warnings about the negative impact of masturbation." Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Campaign 2010, Jim Rutenberg, Jennifer Steinhauer, Tea Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100916024705.aspx 20100916020006 Clay Waters Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:00:00 -0400 For the second day in a row, these old accusations qualify as front-page news: "[Democrats] intend to keep reminding the public of [GOP candidate Paladino's] more outrageous moments, like his circulation of bigoted and pornographic e-mails and his likening of the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, to the Antichrist." Carl Paladino, New York State, Governor, Campaign 2010, David Halbfinger, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100916020006.aspx 20100916012708 Clay Waters Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:27:00 -0400 The Times tries to buck up the Democrats for November: "But the latest New York Times/CBS News poll also finds that while voters rate the performance of Democrats negatively, they view Republicans as even worse, providing a potential opening for Democrats to make a last-ditch case for keeping their hold on power." So why does the paper go on to suggest a Republican takeover of Congress? Jeff Zeleny, Megan Thee-Brenan, Campaign 2010, Polls, Barack Obama, Congress, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100916012708.aspx 20100915035329 Clay Waters Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:53:00 -0400 A Tea Party candidate wins in New York State, and reporters David Halbfinger and Michael Barbaro shudder. "The result was a potentially destabilizing blow for New York Republicans. It put at the top of the party's ticket a volatile newcomer who has forwarded e-mails to friends containing racist jokes and pornographic images, espoused turning prisons into dormitories where welfare recipients could be given classes on hygiene, and defended an ally's comparison of the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, who is Jewish, to 'an Antichrist or a Hitler.'" Carl Paladino, New York State, Governor, Campaign 2010, David Halbfinger, Michael Barbaro, Tea Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100915035329.aspx 20100915022832 Clay Waters Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:28:00 -0400 Damien Cave unleashes liberal snobbery on Koran-threatening preacher and "fanatic" Terry Jones of Gainesville, while accusing him, not the media, of creating a spectacle: "Educated and progressive, with a gay mayor and a City Commission made up entirely of Democrats, Gainesville is a sprawling metropolis of 115,000 people where smoothie shops seem to outnumber gun shops." Damien Cave, Mosque, Florida, Jerry Jones, Koran, Islam, Religion http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100915022832.aspx 20100915121221 Clay Waters Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:12:00 -0400 Reporter Michael Shear on the former Speaker's criticism of Barack Obama's "Keynan, anti-colonial" world view: "Mr. Gingrich has been a bomb thrower since he was a backbencher in the House trying to work his way up. And in his years as a former politician, he has sought to grab headlines by sometimes taking extreme positions." And columnist Maureen Dowd gets personal. Newt Gingrich, Michael Shear, Kenyan Anti-Colonial Behavior, Bomb Thrower, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100915121221.aspx 20100914015752 Clay Waters Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:57:00 -0400 Frank Rich unleashes his inner (snore) Bob Herbert: "He must join the many who are talking about why the top 1 percent of American earners now take home nearly a quarter of Americans' total income - perhaps the single most revealing indicator of how three decades of greed and free-market absolutism have eviscerated America's fundamental ideals of fairness." Frank Rich, Barack Obama, Campaign 2010, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100914015752.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20100914014230 Clay Waters Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:42:00 -0400 Charming: Book critic Kakutani on the Tea Party movement, composed of among other things "militia members, Ayn Randers, Limbaugh 'ditto heads,' Glenn Beck fanatics, birthers, Birchers, and supporters of Sarah Palin and Ron Paul." Those Beck fanatics are motivated by "his shameless emotional appeals to his audience's deepest fears about change and the threat of the Other (be it a black president, Mexican immigrants or East Coast liberals)." Michiko Kakutani, Books, Will Bunch, "The Backlash," Tea Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100914014230.aspx 20100914123714 Clay Waters Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:37:00 -0400 Paranoia will destroy ya. Reporter Michael Luo's front-page fears for Democrats: "The yawning gap in independent interest group spending is alarming some Democratic officials, who argue that it amounts to an effort on the part of wealthy Republican donors, as well as corporate interests, newly emboldened by regulatory changes, to buy the election." So did the Democrats, using the same tactics, "buy the elections" of 2006 and 2008? Not according to the Times. Michael Luo, Campaign 2010, 527, Double Standards, Congress, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100914123714.aspx 20100913051041 Clay Waters Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:10:00 -0400 Not a parody: Times writer Liesl Schillinger's praiss "Dirty Sex Politics," Meghan McCain's account of her father's 2008 presidential campaign. "Her book is not only a front-row view of one of the most historic elections in recent American history, it is, as she told George Stephanopoulos on 'Good Morning America,' a 'coming-of-age story.'" An alternate view: "I stopped counting the number of times she informed me that she was wearing UGG boots on a given occasion at five." Meghan McCain, Leisl Schillinger, Books, "Dirty Sexy Politics" http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100913051041.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Meghan.jpg 20100913044955 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:49:00 -0400 Brent Bozell, the founder and president of the Media Research Center, will be making an important announcement at 7pm Eastern time on Wednesday, September 15. This announcement will be made via live web broadcast and you won't want to miss it! Brent Bozell, Announcement, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100913044955.aspx 20100913023846 Clay Waters Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:38:00 -0400 The week after Obama went after Rep. John Boehner by name, the Times obliges with a Sunday front-page hit piece on the Republican leader's "especially deep" and "especially tight ties" with "lobbyist friends,' loose talk that falsely suggested Boehner has some kind of unique troublesome ties to lobbyists. Eric Lipton, Lobbyists, Double Standards, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Robert Gibbs, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100913023846.aspx 20100910102227 Clay Waters Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:22:00 -0400 A Times contributor recommends using newspapers along with compost to kill garden weeds. Does publisher Arthur Sulzberger (who says the Times will eventually no longer issue a print edition) know about this marketing opportunity? Anne Raver, Newsprint, Compost, Arthur Sulzberger, Humor, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100910102227.aspx 20100910095401 Clay Waters Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:54:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes on the demise of mainstream Republicans: "I don't think there are many of those left, Sam, and there's gonna be fewer of them once this election is held. Some of them have already lost in the primaries to the Tea Party wing." Jackie Calmes, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Republicans, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100910095401.aspx 20100909014034 Clay Waters Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:40:00 -0400 Where did that come from? In a discussion on a suspicious anecdote in Tony Blair's memoirs, reporter Sarah Lyall writes: "[Peter] Morgan told The Daily Telegraph, perhaps Mr. Blair 'had one gin and tonic too many' and - like Ronald Reagan before him - 'confused the scene in the film with what actually happened.'" Sarah Lyall, Ronald Reagan, Tony Blair, Books, "The Queen", TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100909014034.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Sarah_Lyall.jpg 20100909121252 Clay Waters Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:12:00 -0400 Ginia Bellafante lets loose again with uninformed liberal opinion in a TV review: "'We are separatists, not supremacists,' the sedately spoken businessman says. 'We are God-fearing patriots. And in a time when black radicals are in power in this country, we are desperately trying to remind our citizens of their founding beliefs.' Those words belong not to a fringe politico at a Glenn Beck rally but to a fictitious professional racist..." Ginia Bellafante, Glenn Beck, Television, "Sons of Anarchy" http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100909121252.aspx 20100908041131 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:11:00 -0400 Columnist Nicholas Kristof takes his paranoia all the way: "Screeds against Catholics from the 19th century sounded just like the invective today against the Not-at-Ground-Zero Mosque....we should also recognize that historically this distrust has led us to burn witches, intern Japanese-Americans, and turn away Jewish refugees from the Holocaust." Nicholas Kristof, Ground Zero, Mosque, Bigotry, Holocaust http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100908041131.aspx 20100908012854 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:28:00 -0400 Stephanie Strom writes an entire favorable article about famous billionaire hedge-fund manager George Soros without mentioning his history of liberal giving and Bush-bashing. Stephanie Strom, George Soros, Labeling Bias, Human Rights Watch http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100908012854.aspx 20100908111706 Clay Waters Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:17:00 -0400 Don't call it a mosque: "Proposed Islamic community center" leading to anti-Muslim bigotry, says Laurie Goodstein: "The clergy members said that those responsible for a poisoned climate included politicians manipulating a wedge issue in an election year, self-styled 'experts' on Islam who denigrate the faith for religious or political reasons and some conservative evangelical Christian pastors." Laurie Goodstein, Muslims, Religion, Ground Zero, Mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100908111706.aspx 20100907041637 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:16:00 -0400 More Democratic wishful thinking on the front page. Reporter Kate Zernike helpfully points out several apparent vulnerable Republican candidates backed by the Tea Party: "The battle in Delaware is just the latest reminder that as much as the Tea Party fervor is expected to help Republicans in November, it may also create problems for them - and opportunities for the Democrats....With the economy still working against Democrats, they say they are hoping to benefit from concerns about Tea Party extremism." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Republicans, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100907041637.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100907032842 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:29:00 -0400 Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein is not taking public opposition to the Ground Zero mosque very well, labeling it straight-up red state bigotry: "[Muslims] said they were scared not as much for their safety as to learn that the suspicion, ignorance and even hatred of Muslims is so widespread." Laurie Goodstein, Muslims, Religion, Ground Zero, Mosque, Discrimination, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100907032842.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Laurie_Goodstein_2.JPG 20100907023825 Clay Waters Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:38:00 -0400 After spending a month assuring readers that most sophisticated New Yorkers support building a mosque near Ground Zero, the Times conducts its own poll and finds New Yorkers are just as opposed to the project as the ignorant masses from outside the city: "A New York Times poll of New York City residents that found that even this city, the country's most diverse and cosmopolitan, is not immune to suspicion and to a sadly wary misunderstanding of Muslim-Americans." Ground Zero, Mosque, Poll, Michael Barbaro, Marjorie Connelly http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100907023825.aspx 20100902104533 Clay Waters Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:45:00 -0400 Plus Sheryl Gay Stolberg explains the Ground Zero mosque to the rubes outside Manhattan, and Matt Bai questions the "nativist impulse" behind the mosque's opponents. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Matt Bai, Racism, Glenn Beck, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100902104533.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100902102901 Clay Waters Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:28:00 -0400 Times video game reviewer Seth Schiesel claimed criticism of a game enabling one to play a Talbian fighter against U.S. troops was “based on a misunderstanding of what video games are.” But how did the Times feel about a game where you could play as the Nazis or a regular German soldier during World War II? Seth Schiesel, Video Games, Taliban, Medal of Honor, Nazis, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100902102901.aspx 20100901035511 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:55:00 -0400 The Times downplays Obama's opposition to the successful troop surge in Iraq, and repeats the old smear that Bush "refused to attend soldiers' funerals." Yet the Times no longer brings up the issue, even as the pace of soldiers fatalities escalates in Afghanistan under Obama. Iraq War, Barack Obama, Soldiers Funerals, Double Standards, George W. Bush, Afghanistan, Troop Surge, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100901035511.aspx 20100901125856 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:58:00 -0400 Natalie Angier takes on the insulting honorific, then insults men: "Behind the link between 'ma'am' and 'old' is the familiar feminist observation that, whereas a man remains 'mister' and 'sir' from nursery to nursing home, a woman's honorifics change depending on her marital status and, barring that, her age....For many women, then, the insertion of the word 'ma'am' into an otherwise pleasant social exchange can feel like a tiny jab, an unnecessary station-break to comment on one's appearance: Hello, middle-aged- to elderly-looking woman, how may I help you this evening? Thanks, prematurely balding man with the weak chin, I'll take that table over there, in the corner." Natalie Angier, Science, Men, Ma'am http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100901125856.aspx 20100901111119 Clay Waters Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:11:00 -0400 Times Watch is just one of several e-mail newsletters produced by the Media Research Center and I'd like to introduce you to a daily one, “E-Brief,” from the MRC's CNSNews.com news site - where you'll get the important news you might be missing. E-Brief http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100901111119.aspx 20100831125922 Clay Waters Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:59:00 -0400 The Times labeling philosophy is out of whack, as far-left group working on behalf of Yemeni terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki is called a "human rights group." Scott Shane, Terrorism, Center for Constitutional Rights, Labeling Bias, Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100831125922.aspx 20100831121011 Clay Waters Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:10:00 -0400 A Muslim cab driver is stabbed by a volunteer for a pro-mosque interfaith group, so the Times editorial page naturally blames the anti-mosque mob: "Already New Yorkers have seen a troubled young man slash a Muslim taxi driver with a knife. A zealot in Florida is threatening to burn a stack of Korans on the anniversary of Sept. 11. Where does this end?" Ground Zero, Mosque, Editorial, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Islam, Religion, Mike Bloomberg, Hate Crimes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100831121011.aspx 20100831113100 Clay Waters Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:30:00 -0400 Congressional reporter Carl Hulse puts his thumb on the partisan seesaw: He sees the possibility of "a cadre of fire-breathing conservatives" coming to power in the Senate in November, much like the conservative "accidental senators" of 1980 that replaced Democratic "notable lawmakers." Carl Hulse, Campaign 2010, Senate, Republicans, Double Standards, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100831113100.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20100830032847 Clay Waters Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:28:00 -0400 Reporter Kate Zernike can't quit her obsession over the race (and racism) of the Tea Party, as shown by her descritption of Beck rally attendees: "The overwhelmingly white and largely middle-aged crowd Saturday was a mix of groups that have come together under the Tea Party umbrella." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Restoring Honor, Racism, Rally, Al Sharpton http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100830032847.aspx 20100830015758 Clay Waters Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:57:00 -0400 In Kate Zernike's world you might be a racist if...you oppose minimum wage laws and other "safety net" programs. "Even if Tea Party members are right that any racist signs are those of mischief-makers, even if Glenn Beck had chosen any other Saturday to hold his rally, it would be hard to quiet the argument about the Tea Party and race." Certainly not if reporters like Zernike keep falsely fanning the flames of racism. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Restoring Honor, Racism, Rally, Bob Herbert, Charles Blow, Al Sharpton, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100830015758.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100827125632 Clay Waters Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:56:00 -0400 Mark Bittman sees a bleak future for global food needs: "Mr. Cribb is reporting on the fate of a planet whose resources have, in the last 200 years, been carelessly, even ruthlessly exploited for the benefit of the minority." His solution? Eat more salad. Mark Bittman, Food, Julian Cribbs, Vegetarianism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100827125632.aspx 20100827111937 Clay Waters Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:19:00 -0400 Clyde Haberman attacked "the multisided anger over the proposed Muslim community center and mosque near the World Trade Center site, a struggle that may or may not have influenced a man charged on Wednesday with knifing a Muslim cab driver after having made anti-Muslim remark." But the alleged attacker volunteered for an interfaith group strongly supportive of the mosque project. Clyde Haberman, Ground Zero, Mosque, Michael Enright, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100827111937.aspx 20100826121935 Clay Waters Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:19:00 -0400 Running scared? A sour, factless Times editorial lashes out at conservatives for being conservative: "Republican insurgents from the far right did well in Tuesday's primaries. What their campaigns lack in logic, compassion and sensible policy seems to be counterbalanced by a fiercely committed voter base that is nowhere to be seen on the Democratic side." Editorial, Campaign 2010, Republicans, Racism, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100826121935.aspx 20100826101031 Clay Waters Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:10:00 -0400 Reporter Damien Cave finds someone besides the terrorists to blame for a hypothetical act of future Islamic terrorism: "An Islamic group in England has also incorporated his efforts into a YouTube video that encourages Muslims to 'rise up and act,' widening a concern that Mr. Jones - though clearly a fringe figure with only 50 members in his church - could spark riots or terrorism." Damien Cave, Mosque, Florida, Jerry Jones, Koran, Islam, Religion http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100826101031.aspx 20100826094822 Clay Waters Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:48:00 -0400 In a scattershot column attacking all manner of Republican, former reporter Timothy Egan blames an old enemy, Rush Limbaugh, for the popularity of the rumor that Obama is a Muslim: "In the much-discussed Pew poll reporting the spike in ignorance, those who believe Obama to be Muslim say they got their information from the media....So where is this “media?” Two sources...The first, of course, is Rush Limbaugh, who claims the largest radio audience in the land among the microphone demagogues, and his word is Biblical among Republicans." Timothy Egan, Barack Obama, Muslim, Polls, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Racism, John McCain http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100826094822.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TimothyEgan.jpg 20100825101951 Clay Waters Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:19:00 -0400 Damien Cave assumes too much in Alaska: "...Senator Lisa Murkowski also faced an insurgent candidate, the Tea Party favorite Joe Miller, but after outspending him significantly she appeared to have a comfortable lead heading into the primary." She's currently trailing by 2,000 votes. Damien Cave, Campaign 2010, Primary, Joe Miller, Alaska, Gaffes, Lisa Murkowski http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100825101951.aspx 20100825094259 Clay Waters Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:42:00 -0400 In a Times podcast, reporters suggest racism is partially to blame for Obama's bad poll numbers, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg says that the hicks in the sticks don't understand the mosque project at Ground Zero, unlike sophisticated Manhattanites: "...especially in Manhattan, people realize that Muslims live and work in Lower Manhattan...Out in the country, the news coverage has not been as intense, there are fewer details and it allows for the debate to be reduced to its essence, boiled down to a few words: Mosque at Ground Zero. And those words have become inflammatory around the country..." Sam Roberts, Jeff Zeleny, Sheryl Gay Stolberg http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100825094259.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20100824035018 Clay Waters Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:50:00 -0400 Huh? "Mr. DeLay, the Texas Republican who had been the House majority leader, crowed that he had been 'found innocent.' But many of Mr. DeLay's actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them." Tom DeLay, Editorial, Gaffes, Crime http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100824035018.aspx 20100824125547 Clay Waters Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:55:00 -0400 Scott Shane raises the stakes, accusing Newt Gingrich and others of fomenting radicalism overseas by their opposition to the building of a mosque close to Ground Zero. Scott Shane, Ground Zero, Mosque, Islam, 9-11, Terrorism, Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100824125547.aspx 20100824104557 Clay Waters Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:45:00 -0400 Frank Rich complains that the "Islamophobia command center" of Rupert Murdoch's media empire (including Fox News, the New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal) has been spreading lies about the alleged "mosque" which, Rich argues, isn't even at Ground Zero. But the Times uses the term "mosque" on its front page, and the building that will house the mosque was damaged during the 9-11 attacks. Frank Rich, Mosque, Ground Zero, Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100824104557.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20100823051435 Clay Waters Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:14:00 -0400 Reporter Anne Barnard (with reporting help from a former CAIR lobbyist) runs interference for imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, sponsor of the secretive mosque project near Ground Zero: "...a host of allegations have been floated: that he supports terrorism...that his publicly expressed views mask stealth extremism. Some charges, the available record suggests, are unsupported. Some are simplifications of his ideas." Ground Zero, Mosque, Anne Barnard, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Islam, Religion, Sharaf Mowjood, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100823051435.aspx 20100823025405 Clay Waters Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:54:00 -0400 The Times suggested Republican Rick Lazio was doing something unseemly in his popular opposition to the mosque at Ground Zero, and downplayed firefighter opposition to the mosque at a Ground Zero protest on Sunday. Mosque, Ground Zero, Michael Barbaro, Michael Grynbaum, Protests, Terrorism, Islam, Religion, Rick Lazio, New York City http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100823025405.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/firemen_protest.gif 20100820092215 Tim Graham Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:51:00 -0400 Times columnist Ross Douthat gets on public television to pronounce the X-word against conservatives - and then gets in a lick or two at the Ground Zero Imam. Ross Douthat, PBS NewsHour, Imam Feisal Abdul-Rauf, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100820092215.aspx 20100820070757 Tim Graham Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:55:00 -0400 In a Ground Zero mosque story, the Times quotes a freelance journalist warning against Islamophobia - who happens to have freelanced for the Times. Ground Zero mosque, Muslims, Paul Vitello, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100820070757.aspx 20100819035330 Tim Graham Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:24:00 -0400 Sheryl Stolberg dropped the rule that some accusations shouldn't be "dignified" by repeating. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Barack Obama, Birthers http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100819035330.aspx 20100819015509 Tim Graham Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:36:00 -0400 The conservative lawyer was compelled by his "vivacious" wife to fight the conservatives: "He would have never been able to take the other side...He wouldn't have had a wife after that!" Ted Olson, Ashley Parker, Gay Marriage http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100819015509.aspx 20100819013117 Tim Graham Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:32:00 -0400 From the insular liberal media world, David Carr reported that the "centrist voice" of Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria was jumping to Time magazine - even as Zakaria feistily returned a prize to the Anti-Defamation League in support of the Ground Zero mosque effort. Fareed Zakaria, David Carr, Elizabeth Jensen http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100819013117.aspx 20100819105901 Tim Graham Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:31:00 -0400 In today's recession, the Times highlights the "wow factor" of high-end aquariums without flinching into an outburst of decrying "conspicuous consumption." Economy, Jennifer Kingson, Aquariums http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100819105901.aspx 20100818054953 Tim Graham Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:25:00 -0400 Reporter Adam Nagourney puts all the pressure on Harry Reid's Republican challenger and her "politically intemperate remarks" and "hardline positions." There's still no mention of Reid's unpopular gaffes or liberal stands. Sharron Angle, Harry Reid, Adam Nagourney http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100818054953.aspx 20100818052503 Tim Graham Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:36:00 -0400 Apparently The New York Times is remarkably "progressive" on gay issues - but somehow, it's still impossible for conservatives to suggest there's a liberal bias. Homosexuality, Same-sex marriage, Michael Triplett http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100818052503.aspx 20100817055955 Tim Graham Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:35:00 -0400 When ethics probers drop an investigation into a conservative, it's apparently less newsworthy than weeds at organic golf courses. Tom DeLay, Melanie Sloan, Charlie Savage http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100817055955.aspx 20100817045848 Tim Graham Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:09:00 -0400 "For years now she has been going heavy on the rouge, lipstick, and eyeliner, using a push-up bra, and gadding about in stiletto heels. She's become a bit — perhaps more than a bit — of a slut, whoring after youth through pretending to be with-it." Joseph Epstein, Weekly Standard, Anna Quindlen http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100817045848.aspx 20100817032431 Tim Graham Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:17:00 -0400 James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal finds inconsistencies in his arguments on Angela Merkel's Germany and the solvency of Social Security. Paul Krugman, Angela Merkel, James Taranto http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100817032431.aspx 20100816044724 Tim Graham Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:45:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg read minds of opponents and implied racism and religious intolerance among Ground Zero Mosque opponents. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Barack Obama, Islamophobia http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100816044724.aspx 20100816072954 Tim Graham Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:26:00 -0400 Global-warming skeptics appeared briefly in paragraph 16 and were followed immediately with rebuttal by reporter Justin Gillis. Justin Gillis, Global Warming, Pakistan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100816072954.aspx 20100813104906 Tim Graham Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:44:00 -0400 The former New York Times White House correspondent of the Clinton era thinks his successors in the Obama era are making a mess of the press. Todd Purdum, Barack Obama, Fresh Air http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100813104906.aspx 20100813122211 Tim Graham Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:32:00 -0400 Dismissing opponents as full of 'vitriol' and 'bigotry,' the Times editorializes that somehow, the Islamic extremists were committing a secular crime, regardless of their stated intentions. 9/11, Ground Zero, Islam http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100813122211.aspx 20100810121601 Clay Waters Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:15:00 -0400 Krugman has an announcement for his credulous Times readers: Constantly (and embarrassingly) calling a serious conservative politician a "flimflam" man is not an ad hominem attack; accurately calling Paul Krugman a "former Enron consultant" is. Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, Budget, Gaffes, Economics, Ad Hominem, Hypocrisy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100810121601.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100809031150 Clay Waters Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:11:00 -0400 Matt Bai attacked as “nativist impulse” conservative protest against a mosque at Ground Zero and attempts to deny citizenship to children born of illegals building a mosque near Ground Zero. To make his case for today's crop of conservatives as being ethnically motivated, Bai even praises liberal Public Enemy #1, George W. Bush. Matt Bai, Nativism, Fourteenth Amendment, Ground Zero Mosque, Immigration, Racism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100809031150.aspx 20100809014711 Clay Waters Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:47:00 -0400 For the second time in under a month the Times runs photos from a protest without identifying the two hard-left groups in the picture: The Stalinist ANSWER coalition and the anti-war Code Pink. Ginger Thompson, Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, Afghanistan War, Labeling Bias, Answer Coalition, Code Pink http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100809014711.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/jp-manning-1-articleLarge.jpg 20100806022929 Clay Waters Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:29:00 -0400 The economist turned left-wing talking points parrot shows his way with an incisive insult by mocking conservative Republican budget-whiz Rep. Paul Ryan as a "flimflam man" whose work is "drenched in flimflam sauce." And as a bonus, he insults the Washington Post for being ignorant on economics. Too bad his own source, the Tax Policy Center, disputes his argument. Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, Budget, Gaffes, Economics, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100806022929.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100805022033 Clay Waters Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:20:00 -0400 Watch as the Times' columnist, in a full-force snob-a-thon, exposes the self-evident silliness of plumbers, pool-hall owners, and the majority of Missourians opposed to Obama-care. Gail Collins, Missouri, Campaign 2010, Joe the Plumber http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100805022033.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.jpg 20100805011527 Clay Waters Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:15:00 -0400 Reporter Kirk Johnson plugs for a Colorado Democrat congresswoman who "said she hoped talk [of the "rabid tone" of the Tea Party movement] would work to her advantage and that of other Democrats. Moderation and steady work on job creation, she tells constituents, is the path through the darkness of insecurity, not extremism and fear." Kirk Johnson, Colorado, Conservatives, Campaign 2010 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100805011527.aspx 20100805114234 Clay Waters Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:42:00 -0400 A federal judge's ruling against Prop 8, the 2008 voter initiative banning gay marriage in California, was the source of editorial joy: "...a stirring and eloquently reasoned denunciation of all forms of irrational discrimination, the latest link in a chain of pathbreaking decisions that permitted interracial marriages and decriminalized gay sex between consenting adults." Jesse McKinley, John Schwartz, Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, California, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100805114234.aspx 20100804025033 Clay Waters Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:49:00 -0400 Charlie Savage again finds benign terms to describe the far-left outfit Center for Constitutional Rights in its quest to assist alleged Christmas airline bombing plotter Anwar al-Awlaki. Charlie Savage, Anwar al-Awlaki, Terrorism, Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100804025033.aspx 20100804021222 Clay Waters Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:12:00 -0400 Monica Davey covers the vote on a Missouri measure that would nullify a key element of Obama-care, but leaves off the figures: Obama-care went down to defeat by an enormous margin - 71%-29%, according to the unofficial final tally. Monica Davey, Missouri, Obama-Care, Vote, Bias by Omission, Health Care, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100804021222.aspx 20100804121418 Clay Waters Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:14:00 -0400 The Times again suggests opposition to a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is coming from interfering outsiders, and dances around the awkward question of the project's secret funding. Meanwhile, two other Times reporters hail Bloomberg's speech as a must-read on their Twitter feeds. Ground Zero, Mosque, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Michael Barbaro, Raymond Hernandez, Jodi Kantor, Brian Stelter, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100804121418.aspx 20100803034956 Clay Waters Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:49:00 -0400 Times reporters shrug off Democratic scandals: "In the bazaar that is Capitol Hill, there is nothing surprising about lawmakers' doing favors for campaign donors or intervening with federal agencies on behalf of constituents or friends. So why are Representatives Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat, and Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, facing the rare spectacle of public ethics trials for actions their defenders say are just business as usual in Congress?" Eric Lipton, Eric Lichtblau, Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangel, John Ensign, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100803034956.aspx 20100803024235 Clay Waters Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:42:00 -0400 From Douglas Martin's obituary for Lenora Lebron, who in 1954 led a group of Puerto Rican nationalists who shot five congressmen on the House floor: "Ms. Lebrón was imprisoned for 25 years and widely condemned as a terrorist, although proponents of Puerto Rican independence hailed her and her associates as revolutionary heroes." Lenora Lebron, Puerto Rico, Terrorism, Labeling Bias, Douglas Martin http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100803024235.aspx 20100803015333 Clay Waters Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:53:00 -0400 Lamenting the lack of firebombs in Athens? "On this night, however, there were no firebombs or impassioned speeches. Like Exarcheia itself, it seems, the country's rebel spirit has seen better days..." Three young bank workers perished in an anarchist firebombing in Athens just three months ago. Joanna Kakissis, Athens, Terrorism, Firebombing http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100803015333.aspx 20100803011404 Clay Waters Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:14:00 -0400 Conservative legend Norman Podhoretz's thoughts are the "intemperate rantings" of "an embittered, paranoid crank," according to Damon Linker, an unidentified liberal writer who was given two books on Podhoretz to review. Damon Linker, Norman Podhoretz, Book Review, Iraq, Neocon http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100803011404.aspx 20100802033940 Clay Waters Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:39:00 -0400 The Times cites Rep. James Clyburn as a credible source on racism, and fails to challenge his false claim of Tea Party protesters hurling racial slurs on Capitol Hill on March 20. No surprise there; Times reporters David Herszenhorn and Carl Hulse both have repeated the unsubstantiated charges of racial slurs before. Campiagn 2010, Scandals, Congress, David Herszenhorn, Carl Hulse, Charlie Rangel, Maxine Waters, James Clyburn, Tea Party, Racism, John Lewis http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100802033940.aspx 20100802025232 Clay Waters Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:52:00 -0400 Alessandra Stanley found CNN international reporter Christiane Amanpour "direct and challenging" in her first appearance hosting ABC's Sunday political roundtable discussion "This Week." Christiane Amanpour, Alessandra Stanley, ABC, This Week, Nancy Pelosi http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100802025232.aspx 20100802021336 Clay Waters Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:13:00 -0400 The Times has defended the free speech in violent video games and animal cruelty videos, but draws the line at (gasp) campaign ads paid for by corporations. Campaign Finance, Supreme Court, First Amendment, Free Speech, Editorial, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100802021336.aspx 20100730014657 Clay Waters Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:46:00 -0400 Matt Bai and Frank Rich keep spouting myths about the racist Tea Party, while Kevin Sack wonders why Texans aren't more grateful about Obama-care. Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Frank Rich, Matt Bai, Charles Blow, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100730014657.aspx 20100729042500 Clay Waters Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:24:00 -0400 The Times and the Washington Post don't seem to agree on the import of the leak of classified information on the war in Afghanistan. Wikileaks, Afghanistan, Washington Post, Gaffes, Headlines http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100729042500.aspx 20100729033655 Clay Waters Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:36:00 -0400 Unlike the Washington Post, the Times' print edition left out Obama's two $30,000 entry fee fundraisers in Manhattan in favor of these vital details from his visit to the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, NJ: "Mr. Obama ordered a six-inch 'super sub' - he declared that at nearly 49 he can no longer eat the 12-inch variety - and sat down at a table with the owner, Dave Thornton, and the owners of three businesses in nearby towns." Barack Obama, New Jersey, Fundraising, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100729033655.aspx 20100729021430 Clay Waters Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:14:00 -0400 And Hulse is helping them do it: "Calculating that moderate and independent voters might be turned off by some of the more extreme positions postulated by Tea Party types and Republican conservatives, the Democratic National Committee and Congressional Democrats are trying to join the two in the minds of voters." Carl Hulse, Congress, Campaign 2010, Tea Party, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100729021430.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20100728040626 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:06:00 -0400 Really? Reporter Kevin Sack sounds surprised Texas officials aren't enthusiastic over Obama-care, since it would give Texans so much help: "The state's elected officials might be expected, therefore, to cheer a federal health care law that is likely to deliver billions of dollars from Washington to Austin and cover millions of low-income Texans. Instead, the Republican political leadership has greeted the law and its anticipated costs with open hostility..." Kevin Sack, Obama-care, Texas, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100728040626.aspx 20100728011512 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:15:00 -0400 Times Watch has long marveled at how quickly economist and columnist Paul Krugman become a reliable purveyor of talking points from the leftist blogosphere. Turns out he was subscribed to JournoList, the now-notorious e-mail list of liberal reporters, pundits, and bloggers. Paul Krugman, Bloggers, JournoList http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100728011512.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100728104318 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:43:00 -0400 Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak uncovered "a sharp jolt to the right" under Chief Justice John Roberts, and the Times put his 3,000-word story on the Sunday front page. Adam Liptak, Labeling Bias, Supreme Court, John Roberts http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100728104318.aspx 20100727031956 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:19:00 -0400 Health reporter Robert Pear attempted to dispel Berwick's image as a cost-cutting, Ivory-tower intellectual who favors severe health-care rationing, but left off his most direct paeans to socialized medicine: "Please, don't put your faith in market forces." Donald Berwick, Robert Pear, Obama-Care, Rationing, NHS, Bias by Omission, Health Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100727031956.aspx 20100727020012 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:00:00 -0400 Seth Mydans' reports from Cambodia on the verdict in the trial of a Khmer Rouge jailer, but fails to explain or even mention the ideology that motivated the Communist group to kill almost two million of its citizens. Seth Mydans, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Communism, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100727020012.aspx 20100727110907 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:09:00 -0400 Democrat failure to pass expensive "climate change" regulation and unpaid for unempoyment benefits adds up to a "nasty...near paralysis that has infected the Senate despite the Democrats' control of 59 votes." Carl Hulse, Congress, Gridlock, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100727110907.aspx 20100727102138 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:21:00 -0400 The Times admits there's no evidence that Tea Party members directed racial slurs at civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis, but still insisted "Tea Party supporters have been connected to a number of such statements." Matt Bai, Tea Party, Correction, Racism, John Lewis, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100727102138.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20100726025921 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:59:00 -0400 Frank Rich calls the Shirley Sherrod tape fiasco a "new low" in race relations, and repeats the liberal myth of Rep. John Lewis being "pelted with racial epithets while walking past protesters on the Capitol grounds during the final weekend of the health care debate." Frank Rich, Tea Party, Fox News, John Lewis, Obama Care, Andrew Breitbart, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100726025921.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20100726020251 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:02:00 -0400 David Carr, talking about conservative new media...or does he mean the New York Times?: "But what is emerging is more of a permanent crusade, where information is not only power, but a means to a specific end....it's becoming clear that many are less interested in covering the game than tilting the field." David Carr, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, JournoList, Double Standards, Tucker Carlson, Daily Caller, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100726020251.aspx 20100726124007 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:40:00 -0400 Now that's funny. Media reporter Brian Stelter frets about another media outlet's lack of fairness: "But it is an open question whether conservative media outlets risk damage to their credibility when obscure or misleading stories are blown out of proportion and when what amounts to political opposition research is presented as news." Did he read the Times during the 2008 presidential campaign? Brian Stelter, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Fox News, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100726124007.aspx 20100726110749 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:07:00 -0400 A long obituary for lefty journalist Daniel Schorr treats his Nazi smear of Barry Goldwater as good reporting: "Goldwater had held a grudge since 1964, when Mr. Schorr, while at CBS, reported on the enthusiasm of right-wing Germans for Goldwater as he secured the presidential nomination that year. Mr. Schorr noted that a planned postconvention Goldwater trip mainly involved time at an American military recreation center in Berchtesgaden, site of a favorite Hitler retreat." Daniel Schorr, Barry Goldwater, Robert Hershey Jr., Nazis, Germany, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100726110749.aspx 20100723025847 Clay Waters Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:56:00 -0400 Movie critic Mike Hale watches an anti-Mugabe documentary: "It's possible to honor the suffering of [white farmers in Zimbabwe and to revile the actions of the Mugabe government and, at the same time, to be uneasy with the emotions the film stirs and to feel that its one-sidedness and its nearly complete lack of historical and cultural context are problems." Mike Hale, Movies, Mugabe and the White African, Racism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100723025847.aspx 20100723123214 Clay Waters Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:32:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg uses the discussion to praise Obama's "serious and thoughtful effort to address race relations," otherwise known as his politically necessary speech in March 2008 after the embarrassment of Rev. Jeremiah Wright threatened to upend his presidential campaign. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Shirley Sherrod, Barack Obama, Racism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100723123214.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20100723113440 Clay Waters Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:34:00 -0400 James McKinley Jr.: "With just a week remaining before Arizona's stringent new immigration law is set to take effect, a federal judge in Phoenix heard, for the first time, from Obama administration lawyers urging her to strike down the controversial legislation while dozens of demonstrators argued both sides outside the courthouse." At least this time the Times mentions the arrests of disruptive protesters. James McKinley Jr., Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100723113440.aspx 20100723102000 Clay Waters Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:19:00 -0400 This headline over a June 7 front-page Times story won't age well after a House panel announces it will investigate a range of ethics charges against veteran Democrat Charles Rangel: "The End for Rangel Appears Greatly Exaggerated." Charlie Rangel, MSNBC, Harlem Democrat, Michael Barbaro, David Kocienewski, Eric Lipton, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100723102000.aspx 20100722044321 Clay Waters Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:43:00 -0400 Reporter turned blogger Timothy Egan mocks Sen. James Inhofe for his global warming denialism and for using weather news as predictive of long-term climate trends. But the New York Times has a long history of doing the same thing. Timothy Egan, Sen. James Inhofe, Global Warming, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100722044321.aspx 20100722014858 Clay Waters Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:48:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "The controversy illustrates the influence of right-wing Web sites like the one run by Andrew Breitbart, the blogger who initially posted the misleading and highly edited video...Politically charged stories often take root online before being shared with a much wider audience on Fox. The television coverage, in turn, puts pressure on other news media outlets to follow up." Shirley Sherrod, Andrew Breitbart, Racism, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Brian Stelter, Shaila Dewan, NAACP, Barack Obama, Fox News, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100722014858.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20100722122155 Clay Waters Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:21:00 -0400 "[Bruce Cumings] mows down a host of myths about the war in his short new book, which is a distillation of his own scholarship and that of many other historians. But he begins by mowing down David Halberstam." Halberstam died in a car wreck in 2007. Dwight Garner, David Halberstam, Bruce Cumings, North Korea, Books, Communism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100722122155.aspx 20100721024421 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:44:00 -0400 An obituary for an alarmist climatologist refers to Erlich, author of the hysterical, now-discredited tome "The Population Bomb," as a population expert. In his 1968 book Ehrlich called for the government to take immediate action to control population in order to prevent mass starvation in America. Paul Erlich, Population Bomb, Gaffes, Dougla Martin, Stephen Schneider http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100721024421.aspx 20100721014500 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:44:00 -0400 Katharine Seelye dubiously defends CAIR, while painting Bill Kristol as a neocon puppetmaster whose anti-Sestak ad "serves as a shot across the bow to candidates in other states whom Mr. Kristol and his fellow neoconservatives deem insufficiently supportive of Israel." She's kinder to a liberal counterattack: "The statements in this advertisement are not in dispute." Katharine Seelye, Campaign Ads, Pennsylvania, Campaign 2010, Pat Toomey, Joe Sestak, Double Standards, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100721014500.aspx 20100720020508 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:05:00 -0400 An editor at First Things sees through the Times 8,000-word cover story by pro-choice writer Emily Bazelon: "...the article's optimism for increased abortion acceptance in mainstream America is at best wishful thinking, at worst willful delusion....trying to prop it up to be a successful, growing industry, supported by most of the public - despite the fact that it isn't." Abortion, Magazine, Emily Bazelon http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100720020508.aspx 20100720010645 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:06:00 -0400 Friedman glosses over Hezbollah founder Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah's support for suicide bombers and ignores evidence of Fadlallah's blessing of the bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241, while vaguely stating that Fadlallah "had some dark side." Thomas Friedman, Octavia Nasr, Journalism, Twitter, Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Middle East, Religion, Feminism, Terrorism, Marines http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100720010645.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Tom_Friedman.jpg 20100720114117 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:41:00 -0400 The Times' answer to the educational culture wars: "Perhaps a big, gay dance party is what it will take to help the intractable sides find common ground." David Rooney, Abraham Lincoln, Gay, History http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100720114117.aspx 20100719033405 Tim Graham Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:33:00 -0400 But Blow wasn't so sanguine about tiny white supremacist groups in a column from March 2009: "If they only recruit a few, that is still too many. Terrorists have shown the world time and again that a few well-trained men is all it takes." Charles Blow, Tea Party, New Black Panther Party, Racism, Double Standards, Hate Groups, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100719033405.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2010-07-19-MSNBC-MJ-Blow.jpg 20100719030339 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:03:00 -0400 Frank Rich put his original "sadomasochist" attack on "The Passion of the Christ" in someone else's mouth, and kept this box office prediction stuffed down the memory hole: "Indeed, it's hard to imagine the movie being anything other than a flop in America, given that it has no major Hollywood stars and that its dialogue is in Aramaic and Latin (possibly without benefit of subtitles)." Frank Rich, Mel Gibson, Passion of the Christ, Gaffes, Religion, Movies, Social Conservatives, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100719030339.aspx 20100719015234 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:52:00 -0400 Matt Bai passes along a discredited liberal myth from March: "The question of racism in the amorphous Tea Party movement is, of course, a serious one, since so much of the Republican Party seems to be in the thrall of its activists. There have been scattered reports around the country of racially charged rhetoric within the movement, most notably just before the vote on the new health care law last March, when Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, the legendary civil rights leader, was showered with hateful epithets outside the Capitol." Matt Bai, Tea Party, Gaffes, Racism, John Lewis, NAACP http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100719015234.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MattBai.jpg 20100719010415 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:04:00 -0400 Laurie Goodstein today: "At a time when the prospects for immigration overhaul seem most dim, supporters have unleashed a secret weapon: a group of influential evangelical Christian leaders." A Times headline from May 2007: "New Coalition of Christian Seeks Changes at Borders." Laurie Goodstein, Illegal Immigration, Christians, Religion, Amnesty http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100719010415.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Laurie_Goodstein_2.JPG 20100716034127 Clay Waters Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:41:00 -0400 Randal Archibold's story on a win for privacy rights in Arizona doesn't match the tone of his articles on how frightened illegal immigrants are of the state's new immigration law: "The state...has become the first to pull the plug, bowing to the wishes of a vocal band of conservative activists..." Randal Archibold, Arizona, Speed Cameras, Illegal Immigration, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100716034127.aspx 20100716015255 Clay Waters Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:52:00 -0400 Kevin Sack on the gay couple behind the online gay wedding planning mag Legally Wed: "The magazine includes a consumer guide to vendors who are practiced in avoiding heterosexist language and customs. When planning their own wedding, the Palladinos quickly learned to detect discomfort among the photographers they interviewed." The offending statement? "Much love in Jesus Christ." Kevin Sack, Gay Marriage, Wedding Planners, Religion, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100716015255.aspx 20100716104136 Clay Waters Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:41:00 -0400 In Friday's lead, Binyamin Appelbaum and David Herszenhorn welcome re-regulation by Congress over financial markets: "The government watched and did nothing as the bulk of financial activity moved into a parallel universe of private investment funds, unregulated lenders and black markets like derivatives trading." David Herszenhorn, Binyamin Appelbaum, Finance, Regulation, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100716104136.aspx 20100715043022 Clay Waters Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:30:00 -0400 Matt Bai salutes political hero Lincoln Chafee, liberal Republican senator turned independent candidate for governor of Rhode Island, for his "more traditional notion of fiscal responsibility" and bravery in pushing tax increases. Matt Bai, Republicans, Campaign 2010, Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island, Taxes, Spending, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100715043022.aspx 20100715021456 Clay Waters Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:14:00 -0400 Reporter Kirk Johnson overheats on the front page: "A list of 1,300 Utah residents described as illegal immigrants has sown fear among some Hispanics here, and prompted an investigation into its origins and dissemination." Kirk Johnson, Utah, Illegal Immigration, List, Double Standards, Privacy, Proposition 8, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100715021456.aspx 20100714113145 Clay Waters Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:31:00 -0400 The Times makes a lot of positive but unsubstantiated assumptions about a Muslim community center and mosque scheduled for construction at Ground Zero, where thousands were murdered in the name of Islam, slanting the controversy as “bellicose” bloggers spouting “vitriolic commentary” against Muslims. Javier Hernandez, Ground Zero, Mosque, Cordoba Initiative, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100714113145.aspx 20100713034240 Clay Waters Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:42:00 -0400 Andrew Revkin tells his readers not to worry about a pro-global warming government scientist expressing the desire to "beat the [expletive] out of" a prominent climate skeptic, and puts blame on Climategate whistleblowers who leaked emails showing climate change scientists ignoring legal Freedom of Information requests: "Was the East Anglia Incident a Crime?" Andrew Revkin, Global Warming, Patrick Murphy, Climategate, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100713034240.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/AndrewRevkin.jpg 20100712052141 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:21:00 -0400 Reporter Jennifer Stienhauer cheers on California liberal Republican governor: "Mr. Schwarzenegger's accomplishments - particularly as a Republican in an ever-blue state - have been significant, largely bipartisan and likely to have a lasting impact on the state." They include hiking the minimum wage and agreeing to raise taxes. Jennifer Steinhauer, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Taxes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100712052141.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Steinhauer.jpg 20100712033251 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:32:00 -0400 Both former police officers and residents react nonchalantly to the NYPD's supposedly overzealous "stop-and-frisk" tactics in one of New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods. It's the second recent front-page story that's failed to deliver the goods on the supposed failures of the aggressive police tactic. Ray Rivera, Al Baker, Janet Roberts, Crime, Profiling, Frisking, NYPD, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100712033251.aspx 20100709025354 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:53:00 -0400 Plus: Democrats and double standards: Robert Byrd vs. Jesse Helms, plus the brilliant, funny, warm, and witty Elena Kagan. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Elena Kagan, Supreme Court, Robert Byrd, Jesse Helms, Stephen Holden, Hugo Chavez http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100709025354.aspx 20100709022931 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:29:00 -0400 Reporter Adam Nagourney sounds "just a little bit giddy" about Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's allegedly improving prospects for re-election in Nevada against Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle. Adam Nagourney, Campaign 2010, Harry Reid, Nevada, Sharron Angle http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100709022931.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20100709021308 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:13:00 -0400 Times reporter David Streitfeld covers mortgage defaulters on varying ends of the income spectrum, but only lectures "the rich" ones on the "civic good." David Streitfeld, Mortgages, Foreclosure, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100709021308.aspx 20100708035723 Clay Waters Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:53:00 -0400 Blame Republicans for Obama's stalled-out economy, says former reporter Timothy Egan: "The Republican governing philosophy of a criminal deregulatory environment drove the economy into a ditch. And when they put more than a trillion dollars worth of wars on the credit card, they left future administrations with few options." Timothy Egan, Republicans, Barack Obama, Economy, Afghanistan, Deregulation http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100708035723.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TimothyEgan.jpg 20100708122640 Clay Waters Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:26:00 -0400 Justin Gillis improves on his last article on the "exoneration" of a Climategate scientist, explaining how the latest slanted report nonetheless found global warming's infamous "hockey stick" graph showing a sharp temperature rise in recent years to be "misleading." Justin Gillis, Global Warming, Climategate, Phil Jones, Michael Mann, Marc Morano http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100708122640.aspx 20100707062140 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:21:00 -0400 Legal reporter Charlie Savage leaned heavily on the “conservative” politics of those pushing charges of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party at a polling place, and accusing Obama's Justice Department of a racial double standard: "The case became a cause célèbre in the conservative media world, and the Civil Rights Commission opened an investigation. The eight-member panel, which has the power to issue subpoenas and issue reports, is controlled by a six-member conservative bloc appointed during the Bush administration." Charles Savage, Black Panthers, Voter Intimidation, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100707062140.aspx 20100707082314 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:23:00 -0400 Political personality reporter Mark Leibovich on Rep. Darrell Issa: "Every Congress seems to produce a designated pest, adept at drawing attention to nuisance issues (and his nuisance self) while making trouble for the other party when it controls the White House." Leibovich then poured Democrat opposition research over Issa's head. Mark Leibovich, Rep. Darrell Issa, Labeling Bias, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100707082314.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Leibovich.jpg 20100706022127 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:21:00 -0400 "Ethicist" columnist Randy Cohen unleashes his leftism again, this time on opposition to gay marriage: "It is not only Jews who should repudiate anti-Semitism or African-Americans who should oppose racism. No honorable person, gay or straight, should abet efforts to deny homosexuals equal treatment under the law." Randy Cohen, Gay Marriage, The Ethicist http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100706022127.aspx 20100706113640 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:36:00 -0400 Is columnist David Brooks calling out fellow columnist Paul Krugman, a supporter of more economic "stimulus"? These Demand Siders have very high I.Q.'s, but they seem to be strangers to doubt and modesty....the Demand Siders write as if everybody who disagrees with them is immoral or a moron." Paul Krugman, David Brooks, Economy, Stimulus http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100706113640.aspx 20100706102100 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:20:00 -0400 Reporter James McKinley Jr. didn't find any pro-amnesty liberals, but managed to identify opponents of immigration “reform” as “conservative” and “right-wing”: "Many clergy members say they face an uphill battle with their congregations, some of which tend to be conservative on social issues and regard immigrants without visas as lawbreakers. Their effort has also drawn fire from right-wing talk radio hosts." James McKinley Jr., Illegal Immigration, Houston, Labeling Bias, Religion, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100706102100.aspx 20100705095039 Clay Waters Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:50:00 -0400 Robert Draper files another long, condescending Sunday Magazine profile on the conservative movement and its "quisling," Sen. Lindsay Graham of "bloodred" South Carolina. Robert Draper, Lindsay Graham, Conservatives, Labeling Bias, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100705095039.aspx 20100702032745 Clay Waters Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:27:00 -0400 What reporter Justin Gillis thinks about Climategate: "An American scientist accused of manipulating research findings on climate science was cleared of that charge by his university on Thursday, the latest in a string of reports to find little substance in the allegations known as Climategate." Justin Gillis, Global Warming, Climategate, Michael Mann http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100702032745.aspx 20100702083717 Clay Waters Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:36:00 -0400 Frank Rich discusses the Republican Party's "extremism" and "race problem" with sympathetic MSNBC host Rachel Maddow: "...they have this sort of reversion to this extreme fiscal conservatism of tearing down the safety net, no unemployment benefits extension, against regulation, apologizing, for heaven's sake, not just to a abusive company like BP but a British one, which is just-seems totally tone deaf. They have the social issue component that's sort of off on the side and feeling disgruntled. They have a race problem. I don't know what the message is except the Party of No. And while it's sort of a cliche, there is something sort of nihilistic about it." Frank Rich, Rachel Maddow, Campaign 2010, Conservatives, Tea Party, Racism, Unemployment Benefits, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100702083717.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Frank_Rich_on_Maddow.JPG 20100701032443 Clay Waters Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:24:00 -0400 All hail Kagan! Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Charlie Savage: "But try as they might, Republicans could not knock Solicitor General Elena Kagan off her stride. And as her second day of questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee wound down on Wednesday, some conceded that her confirmation to the Supreme Court was all but assured." Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Elena Kagan, Supreme Court, Partial-Birth Abortion, Charlie Savage, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100701032443.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20100701015916 Clay Waters Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:59:00 -0400 Reporter Jeremy Peters only sees ideology in one direction in a story on suitors for the failing newsweekly: "The conservative political ideology of Newsmax's chief executive, Christopher Ruddy, is at odds with the editorial bent of Newsweek, which strives to be apolitical in its news coverage though is often criticized as left-leaning." , TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100701015916.aspx 20100701112844 Clay Waters Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:28:00 -0400 Joseph Plambeck never reveals precisely what sort of "political blog" Daily Kos is: "Mr. Moulitsas said that because of his blog's success, there are other polling organizations willing to work with him, adding that he will require them to provide all of the raw data." Daily Kos, Labeling Bias, Joseph Plambeck, Polls, Research 2000, Markos Moulitsas http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100701112844.aspx 20100701100634 Scott Whitlock Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:06:00 -0400 Dowd tells ABC host George Stephanopoulos: "So, he's thin-skinned. And when you're thin-skinned, you like to control the image. And he doesn't often like the image that the media has of him." Maureen Dowd, Liberal Bias, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100701100634.aspx 20100630043740 Clay Waters Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:37:00 -0400 Leave it to the New York Times to put an unnecessarily partisan anti-Bush spin on, of all things, space policy: "The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a space policy that renounces the unilateral stance of the Bush administration and instead emphasizes international cooperation, including the possibility of an arms control treaty that would limit the development of space weapons." William Broad, Kenneth Chang, Space, George W. Bush, Satellites, Barack Obama, Iraq War http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100630043740.aspx 20100630013114 Clay Waters Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:31:00 -0400 "Death By Gadget." Times columnists Nicholas Kristof and Maureen Dowd embrace different variations of cell phone fear. Nicholas Kristof, Maureen Dowd, Cell Phones, Cancer, Congo, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100630013114.aspx 20100630112550 Clay Waters Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:25:00 -0400 The paper's neo-liberal economic conscience found criticism of massive government spending by “laissez-faire economists [and] Congressional Republicans,” distressing, lamenting: “They're able to shout louder than the data.” David Leonhardt, Stimulus, Economy, Austerity http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100630112550.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/DavidLeonhardt.jpg 20100629030610 Clay Waters Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:06:00 -0400 A Times editorial assures readers "the Supreme Court disregarded the plain words of the Second Amendment" in a court decision upholding an individual right to keep and bear arms, and predicts the consequences of such folly "will be all too real and bloody." Second Amendment, Editorial, Supreme Court, Chicago, Gun Rights http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100629030610.aspx 20100629014737 Clay Waters Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:47:00 -0400 Liz Alderman wonders why Europe won't listen to Obama's wisdom: "The Group of 20 leaders [are] vowing to make deficit reduction the top priority despite warnings from President Obama that too much austerity could choke a global recovery and warnings from a few economists about the possibility of a much sharper 1930s style downturn." Liz Alderman, Ireland, Austerity, Paul Krugman, Sarah Lyall http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100629014737.aspx 20100629111414 Clay Waters Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:14:00 -0400 Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats agree: Kagan a "brilliant" Supreme Court nominee: "Let's not forget that Elena Kagan has been an academic. She is a brilliant woman. She's somebody who is also very funny and warm and witty, and I think Americans will see that when they–when she comes before the Senate today. They will see somebody who has studied and thought deeply about the law..." Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Elena Kagan, Supreme Court, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100629111414.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg_TimesCast.jpg 20100628041904 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:19:00 -0400 After nonstop blaming of President Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill is pitting a Democratic president against Republican governor Bobby Jindal - and conveniently awakened the Times to the realization Louisiana officials have responsibility too. Hurricane Katrina, Bobby Jindal, Double Standards, George Bush, Barack Obama, Campbell Robertson, John Collins Rudolf http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100628041904.aspx 20100628033004 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:30:00 -0400 Democrat senator and former Klan member Robert Byrd was a "Respected Voice of the Senate." Republican senator Jesse Helms had a "hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art." Adam Clymer, Sen. Robert Byrd, Obituaries, Sen. Jesse Helms, Sen. Strom Thurmond, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100628033004.aspx 20100628105929 Clay Waters Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:59:00 -0400 Shops are vandalized and police cars torched in Toronto, but reporter Ian Austen defends the overall peacefulness of the left-wing mob over the headline "Police in Toronto Criticized for Treatment of Protesters, Many Peaceful." "An escalation of aggressive police tactics toward even apparently peaceful protests at the Group of 20 summit meeting led to calls for a review of security activities....The protesters, the overwhelming majority of whom were peaceful..." Ian Austen, Toronto, G20 Summit, Violence, Protesters, Double Standards, Arizona, Bias By Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100628105929.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Toronto_Burning_AP_Frank_Gunn.jpg 20100625024702 Clay Waters Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:46:00 -0400 The Times commissions a report from Moody's Analytics, whose chief economist supports Obama's "stimulus" package and who advises congressional Democrats, to reveal slender hope that Election 2010 won't be as bad for Democrats as it currently looks. Michael Luo, Economy, Campaign 2010, Bias by Omission, Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100625024702.aspx 20100625014720 Clay Waters Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:47:00 -0400 Critic Stephen Holden on Oliver Stone's new documentary on left-wing leaders in Latin America, including dictator Hugo Chavez of Venezuela: "Mr. Chávez comes across as a rough-hewn but good-hearted man of the people whose bullheaded determination is softened by a sense of humor. At a corn-processing factory, he jokes: 'This is where we build the Iranian atomic bomb. A corn bomb.'" Stephen Holden, Movies, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100625014720.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/stephenholden.jpg 20100625104804 Clay Waters Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:48:00 -0400 CNN's new, gentle version of "Crossfire" will pit "Democrat" and disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer against "conservative" columnist Kathleen Parker, according to the Times' unbalanced labeling habits. CNN, Kathleen Parker, Eliot Spitzer, Labeling Bias, Bill Carter, Brian Stelter, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100625104804.aspx 20100624025452 Clay Waters Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:54:00 -0400 Yeganeh June Torbati provided a roll call of D.C. liberal pundits in love with the Politics & Prose bookstore, but never notes the store's deep-blue-hue and previous snubbing of conservative authors. Yeganeh June Torbati, Politics and Prose Bookstore, Bias by Omission, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100624025452.aspx 20100624013111 Clay Waters Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:31:00 -0400 The Times aims another penalty kick right at Nicolas Sarkozy: "Fadela Amara, the junior minister for the racially charged suburbs who was born to Algerian parents, warned on Tuesday that the reaction to the team's loss had become racially charged....She criticized Mr. Sarkozy's handling of a debate on 'national identity'..." Nicolas Sarkozy, Steven Erlanger, France, World Cup, Soccer, Gaffes, Elaine Sciolino, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100624013111.aspx 20100623023500 Clay Waters Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:34:00 -0400 R. Seth Williams, Philadelphia's new district attorney, overthrows the "increasingly hard line" of his predecessor and moves toward leniency in minor crimes. Reporter Erik Eckholm can't get enough of it: "Philadelphia...seems ready to give Mr. Williams and his ideas a chance." Erik Eckholm, Crime, Philadelphia, R. Seth Williams http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100623023500.aspx 20100623011455 Clay Waters Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:14:00 -0400 French socialists blame right-of-center president Nicolas Sarkozy for the team's World Cup failure, and Jere Longman appears to take them seriously: "Some opposition politicians said the players' behavior represented the selfishness fostered by the governance of President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had been called President Bling Bling for his flashy style." Jere Longman, World Cup, Soccer, Nicholas Sarkozy, Gaffes, Elaine Sciolino http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100623011455.aspx 20100623123824 Clay Waters Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:38:00 -0400 "The firestorm was fueled by increasing doubts - even in the military - that Afghanistan can be won and by crumbling public support for the nine-year war as American casualties rise." Helene Cooper, Thom Shanker, Dexter Filkins, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Rolling Stone, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100623123824.aspx 20100623121410 Clay Waters Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:14:00 -0400 Was free speech really harmed by a recent Supreme Court decision? A lead story and lead editorial make the case: "In a case pitting free speech against national security, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a federal law that makes it a crime to provide 'material support' to foreign terrorist organizations, even if the help takes the form of training for peacefully resolving conflicts." Adam Liptak, Ralph Fertig, Labeling Bias, Supreme Court, Material Support, Terrorism, Free Speech http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100623121410.aspx 20100622020406 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:04:00 -0400 Randal Archibold cites FBI crime statistics in Arizona to accuse immigration enforcement advocates of stirring up irrational fear of violent crime on the border. But two conservative writers show he's looking at the wrong numbers. Randal Archibold, Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Crime, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100622020406.aspx 20100622113256 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:32:00 -0400 No one cares what people like me think when it comes to criticizing Obama, says reporter Adam Nagourney talking about the pundits' reaction to Obama's underwhelming Oval Office speech: "But so what? Does it really matter if you lose the pundits anymore?" Adam Nagourney, Barack Obama, Oil Spill, Pundits http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100622113256.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20100622105255 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:52:00 -0400 Congressional reporter Carl Hulse interviewed liberal Democrat Rep. Sander Levin, who scolded Republicans for refusing to “compromise” - that is, to vote for Democratic legislation. Carl Hulse, Congress, Rep. Sander Levin, Democrats http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100622105255.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20100622102832 Clay Waters Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:28:00 -0400 Frank Rich exposes the Tea Party as corporate shills: "The spill's sole positive benefit has been to unambiguously expose the hard right, for all its populist pandering to the Tea Partiers, as a stalking horse for its most rapacious corporate patrons....These tribunes of the antigovernment right and their Tea Party auxiliaries are clamoring for a new revolution to 'take back America' - after which, we now can see, they would hand over America to the likes of BP." Frank Rich, Tea Party, Oil Spill http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100622102832.aspx 20100621032428 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:24:00 -0400 What's wrong with the United States today? Try "widespread envy, greed, overconsumption and debt - gross income inequality, for starters." So says columnist Judith Warner. Judith Warner, Obesity, Income Inequality http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100621032428.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/JudithWarner.jpg 20100621024050 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:40:00 -0400 Hiroko Tabuchi's article on "far right" threats against anti-whaling expose "The Cove" is fat with unflattering labels generally absent from the paper's coverage of truly violent far-left political groups. Hiroko Tabuchi, Japan, Whaling, Labeling Bias, Far Right, Movies, The Cove http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100621024050.aspx 20100621010032 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:00:00 -0400 As the Obama administration prepares to sue Arizona, "conservatives" and "the right" are pitted against nonpolitical "civil rights groups" in Randal Archibold's slanted coverage of the tussle over the state's new immigration enforcement law. Randal Archibold, Mark Landler, Barack Obama, Labeling Bias, Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Latinos, Hillary Clinton, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100621010032.aspx 20100621124136 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:41:00 -0400 Randy Cohen defends a conservative teacher's right to display anti-Obama columns on his door but asks: "...how does it defame a person to call him a 'socialist' (outside of nutty far-right circles) - a set of ideas many advanced Western democracies find congenial, what with the accessible health-care, affordable higher education and good public transportation?" Randy Cohen, Ethicist Columnist, Socialism, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100621124136.aspx 20100621122718 Clay Waters Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:27:00 -0400 Columnist Charles Blow! "Of the 168 promises where action has been completed, they judge Obama to have broken only 19. That's not bad..." Charles Blow, Gaffes, Barack Obama, Promises, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100621122718.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Charles_Blow.jpg 20100618032350 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:23:00 -0400 In a front-page story, reporter David Sanger actually wonders if Obama may be overdoing the government takeover thing just a bit: "[H]e will have to avoid painting with such a broad brush that foreign and domestic investors come to view the United States as a too risky place to do business, a country where big mistakes can lead to vilification and, perhaps, bankruptcy." David Sanger, Barack Obama, Economy, Nationalization http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100618032350.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/DavidSanger.jpg 20100618024732 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:47:00 -0400 Stephen Holden, the Times' most liberal movie critic. embraces the pro-gay screed "8: The Mormon Proposition," which blames the Church for the vote repealing court-imposed gay marriage in California. Movies about women persecuted under Islam, on the other hand, are "lurid torture-porn." Stephen Holden, Proposition 8, Movies, Mormon Church, Gay Marriage http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100618024732.aspx 20100618071706 Clay Waters Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:17:00 -0400 “Among her detractors and her supporters [Angle] is known as a far-right conservative and a thorn in the side of both parties, routinely voting no on almost everything that came before the Legislature.” - Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer, June 10. Plus: The GOP is already doomed in November, and anti-Tea Party snobbery among the "conservative" intellectual elite. Sharron Angle, Carly Fiorina, California, Campaign 2010, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100618071706.aspx 20100617032510 Clay Waters Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:25:00 -0400 Journalist Pamela Paul on conservatism (?) in exile: "...this was more a bunkering of the conservative intellectual elite, a group that domineered its way through the Bush years but is now sidelined, a somewhat baffled shadow of its former blustery self. Whither the conservative establishment in today's bilious political landscape? Certainly the typical Tea Party denizen, with his 'I Wanna Party Like It's 1773' T-shirt and 'You Lie!' trucker hat, would seem out of place...." Pamela Paul, Conservatives, David Frum, Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dinner Party, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100617032510.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Party.jpg 20100617014908 Clay Waters Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:49:00 -0400 "George W. Bush could have called the country to a grand, important new undertaking in which everyone sacrificed personal or regional advantage for the common good. The fact that he only told us to go shopping was the one unforgivable sin of his administration. O.K., also attacking the wrong country. And creating the deficit." Gail Collins, Oil Spill, Barack Obama, Gaffes, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100617014908.aspx 20100617122135 Clay Waters Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:21:00 -0400 Another entry in Kirk Johnson's obsession with the state of conservatism in Utah: "A place once righteously confident in its world view and harsh in its judgment of places that seemed to have gone off the tracks in the 1970s - like New York City and the Rust Belt - is now more diverse and tempered by an influx of newcomers, and perhaps from hard times as well during the recession." Kirk Johnson, Utah, Death Penalty, Conservatism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100617122135.aspx 20100616011834 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:18:00 -0400 The paper's departing public editor Clark Hoyt admitted the Times' editorial page and columnists are liberal and that the paper “shares the prevailing sensibilities of the city and region where it is published.” But he defended the paper, citing scandalous scoops that hurt Northeastern Democrats like former NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Clark Hoyt, Public Editor, Retirement, Liberal Bias, Fox News, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100616011834.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/ClarkHoytCROPPED.jpg 20100616114444 Clay Waters Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:44:00 -0400 Peter Baker: "Evoking the spirit and language of predecessors who used the same setting to send troops into harm's way, Mr. Obama cast the effort to cap a well as part of the American determination to shape its own destiny." Peter Baker, Barack Obama, Oil Spill, Oval Office http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100616114444.aspx 20100615012842 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:28:00 -0400 Balance? Eight paragraphs for the widely seen clip of Democratic Rep. Bob Etheridge attacking two young filmmakers; 27 paragraphs and prominent placement for an allegation from 2007 about Republican candidate for California governor Meg Whitman. Jeff Zeleny, Bob Etheridge, Double Standards, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Jerry Brown, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100615012842.aspx 20100615113906 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:38:00 -0400 Columnist Maureen Dowd on Obama: "Like many Democrats, he thinks the press is supposed to be on his side." Maureen Dowd, Liberal Bias, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100615113906.aspx 20100615110718 Clay Waters Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:07:00 -0400 Reporter Damien Cave's dubious claim: "[Crist] said financial and medical measures that make it harder for women to end their pregnancies 'do not change hearts, which is the only true and effective way to ensure that a new life coming into the world is loved.' Compassionate conservatives and parents of all persuasions may be hard pressed to disagree." Charlie Crist, Damien Cave, Abortion, Ultrasound, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100615110718.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/DamienCave.jpg 20100614034034 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:40:00 -0400 The Washington Post headline: "Joan Hinton, worked on Manhattan Project and became devoted Mao follower, dies at 88." The New York Times headline: "Joan Hinton, 88, Physicist Who Chose China Over Bomb." The contrast was even stronger in the obituaries themselves, with the Times completely omitting mention of the atrocities committed during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Joan Hinton, Obituary, Maoism, Bias by Omission, Manhattan Project http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100614034034.aspx 20100614030018 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:00:00 -0400 The Times has devoted two stories to Republican Senate primary winner Carly Fiorina mocking Sen. Barbara Boxer's hair, but has yet to mention Jerry Brown comparing his Republican opponent for California governor, Meg Whitman, to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Carly Fiorina, Jerry Brown, Double Standards, Gaffes, Nazi http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100614030018.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Fiorina_on_NBC_Today.jpg 20100614015626 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:56:00 -0400 Patricia Cohen says the conservative journal Commentary "has an us-versus-them view of the world and has been unforgiving of family members who publicly air disagreements. Mr. Balint, however, concludes that such obeisance has hurt Commentary." Commentary Magazine, Patricia Cohen, Jews, Labeling Bias, Benjamin Balint, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100614015626.aspx 20100614011109 Clay Waters Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:11:00 -0400 Columnist Peter Applebome, not so cheerful about Republican women winning big last Tuesday: "Last week's primaries were a great moment for women in American politics, an inspiring reminder that women are just as able as men to buy elections with big bucks...and win while espousing far-right, far-out ideas." Peter Applebome, Campaign 2010, Labeling Bias, Republicans, Sharron Angle, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100614011109.aspx 20100612082427 Clay Waters Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:24:00 -0400 Another day, another Times reporter tarring Tea Party candidate and Republican Senate primary winner Sharron Angle of Nevada as "extreme." Jackie Calmes also claims Angle gives Democrats new hope that Sen. Harry Reid will retain his seat. Jackie Calmes, Sharron Angle, Nevada, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Labeling Bias, Jennifer Steinhauer, Podcast, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100612082427.aspx 20100611042259 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:22:00 -0400 Jennifer Steinhauer does her best to pump up into a scandal an open-mic gaffe by California Republican Senate primary winner Carly Fiorina. Jennifer Steinhauer, Campaign 2010, California, Carly Fiorina, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100611042259.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Steinhauer.jpg 20100611115455 Clay Waters Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:54:00 -0400 The Times can't get enough of these tiny protests in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants, while giving cursory coverage to far larger conservative protests like the Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill last September. Abby Goodnough, Illegal Immigration, Massachusetts, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100611115455.aspx 20100610035740 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:57:00 -0400 Not a word about female progress in GOP politics after Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina advanced in California primary elections for governor and senator. Instead, a sour lecture on campaign finance reform. Gail Collins, California, Campaign 2010, Women http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100610035740.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.jpg 20100610025809 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:58:00 -0400 Matt Bai is already predicting recriminations if the G.O.P. fails to win the House or Senate because of Tea Party activism, and a front-page teaser claimed: "Some critics are already asking Republican leaders how they managed to let a promising election season get so mightily out of control." Matt Bai, Republicans, Campaign 2010, Tea Party, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100610025809.aspx 20100610012259 Clay Waters Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:22:00 -0400 Jennifer Steinhauer take on Sharron Angle, winner of the Nevada Republican primary: "...firmly to the right of most mainstream Nevada voters...Among her detractors and her supporters she is known as a far-right conservative..." Jennifer Steinhauer, Campaign 2010, Tea Party, Sharron Angle, Nevada, Harry Reid, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100610012259.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Steinhauer.jpg 20100609024915 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:49:00 -0400 Hooray, hooray, more "stimulus" on the way, says economics writer David Leonhardt: "If there was any doubt that the government could put people to work, at least temporarily, last year's $787 billion stimulus program should have removed it....Despite all this, there is reason to think that more stimulus may finally be on the way." David Leonhardt, Stimulus, Economy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100609024915.aspx 20100609014728 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:47:00 -0400 David Kocieniewski writes: "A Texas pipeline tycoon who died two months ago may become the first American billionaire allowed to pass his fortune to his children and grandchildren tax-free." David Kocieniewski, Estate Tax, Dan Duncan, Carl Hulse, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100609014728.aspx 20100609113521 Clay Waters Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:35:00 -0400 From the Times lead story Wednesday: "Mrs. Lincoln withstood a multi-million-dollar campaign against her from organized labor, environmental groups and liberal advocacy organizations from outside Arkansas as she prevailed over Lt. Gov. Bill Halter." Arkansas, Campaign 2010, Primary, Blanche Lincoln, Bill Halter, Labeling Bias, Jeff Zeleny, Adam Nagourney, Carl Hulse, Unions http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100609113521.aspx 20100608040220 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:02:00 -0400 That's before the former reporter lights into the Republican Party and then the majority of Americans who support the new Arizona immigration law: "Poll-testing the Bill of Rights in a troubled time is always a risky proposition. In 2010, the Fourth Amendment - protection against unreasonable search and seizure - probably would not fare very well. After all, a majority of Americans back the Arizona law, which allows police to demand citizen papers from people they stop who present a “reasonable suspicion” of being illegal immigrants." Timothy Egan, Tea Party, 17th Amendment, Constitution, Arizona, Immigration, 24, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100608040220.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TimothyEgan.jpg 20100608012609 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:26:00 -0400 Reporter David Sanger discussed Obama making the case for sanctions against Iran and its nuclear program and mentioned the "great skepticism" around a 2007 report from U.S. intelligence claiming Iran had stopped its secret nuclear weapon program. But none of that skepticism showed up in the Times itself. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100608012609.aspx 20100608123629 Clay Waters Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:36:00 -0400 Perennial Bush-basher Obama provided some conservative belly laughs when he told high school graduates not to make excuses or blame others. But the Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg simply relayed Obama's "buck-stops-here philosophy." Barack Obama, High School Graduation, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100608123629.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg2.jpg 20100607031103 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:11:00 -0400 Marc Lacey claimed: "President Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed by soldiers at the behest of the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court and then illegally bundled out of the country in his nightclothes." What Lacey didn't mention: Zelaya made extra-legal efforts to lift presidential term limits. The Honduran Supreme Court and Congress, wary of dictators, declared his actions unconstitutional. Marc Lacey, Honduras, Manuel Zelaya http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100607031103.aspx 20100607020506 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:05:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg examines some of Kagan's papers from her days as a Clinton adviser and finds both Kagan and Clinton to be sensible centrists, even on abortion. Elena Kagan, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Labeling Bias, Charlie Savage, Bill Clinton, Supreme Court http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100607020506.aspx 20100607012342 Clay Waters Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:23:00 -0400 Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney moves to the West Coast but remembered to pack his bias, finding the bad side of California Republican Party candidates being on the strong side of a popular issue: Arizona's new immigration law. Adam Nagourney, California, Arizona, Immigration Law, Campaign 2010, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100607012342.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20100604022847 Clay Waters Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:28:00 -0400 The paper's former Supreme Court reporter floats away on a David Souter-powered steamcloud of joy, listening to the retired Supreme Court justice's Harvard address criticizing the judicial philosophy of "originalism" embraced by many conservatives. Linda Greenhouse, Justice David Souter, Justice Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court, Originalism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100604022847.aspx 20100604125804 Clay Waters Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:58:00 -0400 Another case of "Where's the party?" Rod Blagojevich, Party Identification, Monica Davey, Trial http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100604125804.aspx 20100604091251 Clay Waters Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:12:00 -0400 "...a week ago Senator John McCain threatened a filibuster to keep gay men and lesbians from being able to openly serve their country in uniform. He is a man of his age. Can we just press the fast-forward button a decade or so into the future, or have McCain debate his eminently more sensible daughter, Meghan?" Timothy Egan, Tea Party, Gay Rights, Millennials, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100604091251.aspx 20100603024446 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:44:00 -0400 The paper's education reporter Sam Dillon again worries about the "hodgepodge" that results when states, as opposed to the federal government, control what's taught in schools: "The United States is one of the few developed countries that lacks national standards for its public schools." Sam Dillon, Education, Standards, Federalism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100603024446.aspx 20100603011129 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:11:00 -0400 A study advocating cost-cutting of "wasteful" health-care spending, hailed by Times reporters for two years, is revealed as grievously flawed: "The mistaken belief that the Dartmouth research proves that cheaper care is better care is widespread - and has been fed in part by Dartmouth researchers themselves. The debate about the Dartmouth work is important because a growing number of health policy researchers are finding that overhauling the nation's health care system will be far harder and more painful than the Dartmouth work has long suggested. Cuts, if not made carefully, could cost lives." Obama-Care, Dartmouth Study, Reed Abelson, Gardiner Harris, David Leonhardt, Robert Pear, Gaffes, Cost Cutting, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100603011129.aspx 20100603113834 Clay Waters Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:38:00 -0400 Former Gaza-based reporter Taghreed El-Khodary grants an interview to left-wing Salon, blaming Israel for the existence of the anti-Jewish terrorist group Hamas and confessing her job at the Times was “to represent the Palestinian narrative.” Then she confessed her love for Obama. Taghreed El-Khodary, Hamas, Israel, Flotilla, Salon, Interview, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100603113834.aspx 20100602032232 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:22:00 -0400 On Charlie Rose, the paper's Jerusalem bureau chief took on Israel's show of "disproportionate force" against a flotilla stuffed with violent pro-Palestinian "peace activists" attempting to break the Gaza blockade. Ethan Bronner, Freedom Flotilla, Israel, IDF, Palestinians, Gaza, Blockade, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100602032232.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ethan_Bronner_Charlie_Rose.JPG 20100602022139 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:21:00 -0400 The Times leaves a lot out of its potted history of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist for a group that supported "armed struggle" against Israel whose death was a flashpoint in the Israel-Palestine propaganda wars. Sabrina Tavernise, Michael Slackman, Rachel Corrie, Freedom Flotilla, ISM, Terrorism, Israel, Palestinians, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100602022139.aspx 20100602120139 Clay Waters Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:00:00 -0400 David Streitfeld: "Any moral qualms are overshadowed by a conviction that the banks created the crisis by snookering homeowners with loans that got them in over their heads." David Streitfeld, Mortgages, Forecloslure, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100602120139.aspx 20100601025857 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:58:00 -0400 Larry Rohter devotes his second story to the major news that some musicians are boycotting Arizona over its new immigration law: "For the singer Larry Hernandez, the 2010 Billboard Latin Music Awards should have been a moment of pure celebration. But when it came time for Mr. Hernandez to accept his award as new artist of the year, he got drawn into politics, prefacing his remarks with a condemnation of the tough new immigration law that his home state of Arizona had just adopted." Larry Rohter, Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Musicians, Boycott http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100601025857.aspx 20100601020623 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:06:00 -0400 In a condescending review of her memoir "Nomad," Times liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof reduces feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose life has been threatened by radical Islamists, into a mere anti-Muslim antagonist: "She has managed to outrage more people...Now Hirsi Ali is working on antagonizing even more people in yet another memoir." Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Books, Nicholas Kristof, Ian Buruma, William Grimes, Islam, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100601020623.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nomad.jpg 20100601121944 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:19:00 -0400 The Times let its readers know in the headline and first sentence that politician Mark Kirk, caught exaggerating about his military service, was a Republican. Yet profiles on prominent Democrats in trouble have often lacked party identification entirely. Monica Davey, Mark Kirk, Party Identification, Kwame Kilpatrick, Chris Dodd, Richard Blumenthal http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100601121944.aspx 20100601104713 Clay Waters Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:47:00 -0400 Columnist Friedman back in the saddle of his green hobby-horse: "His most important job, though, is one he has yet to take on: shaping the long-term public reaction to the spill so that we can use it to generate the political will to break our addiction to oil....Mr. President, this is your time, this is your moment. Seize it. A disaster is an inexcusable thing to waste." Thomas Friedman, Gulf Oil Spill, 9-11, Gasoline Taxes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100601104713.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Tom_Friedman.jpg 20100528013525 Clay Waters Fri, 28 May 2010 13:35:00 -0400 Plus: Linda Greenhouse attacks Arizona's "police state" with Nazi comparison, Times columnists see the "bright side" to the Gulf oil spill, and Rush Limbaugh's biographer is accused of "Stockholm Syndrome" for failing to deliver a hit piece. Paul Krugman, Randal Archibold, Linda Greenhouse, Thomas Friedman, Gulf Oil Spill http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100528013525.aspx 20100528113524 Clay Waters Fri, 28 May 2010 11:35:00 -0400 Randal Archibold finds sober Arizona citizens with serious concerns about the state's new immigration law: "Mr. Ruiz, who spray painted himself white and wrote on his body, “Am I reasonably suspicious?” at a recent protest against the new law..." Randal Archibold, Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Latinos http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100528113524.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Latino_Protestor.jpg 20100528104937 Clay Waters Fri, 28 May 2010 10:50:00 -0400 Obama triumphs by blaming Bush? Peter Baker: "President Obama uttered three words on Thursday that many of his 43 predecessors twisted themselves into knots trying with varying degrees of success to avoid: 'I was wrong.'" Wrong not to clean up after Bush's corruption, in other words: "...he suggested the April 20 explosion...might have been avoided had his administration cleaned up what he called the cozy and corrupt relationship between regulators and industry sooner." Peter Baker, Barack Obama, Katrina, Oil Spill, George W. Bush, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100528104937.aspx 20100527023402 Clay Waters Thu, 27 May 2010 14:34:00 -0400 In a front-page Home section story that is the epitome of liberal urban paranoia, the Times links up with the John Birch Society circa 1950s: "Municipal water supplies like New York's are typically treated with chlorine and fluoride, which are possible carcinogens and show trace amounts of arsenic and other metals." Penelope Green, Environment, Fluoridated Water, Health, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100527023402.aspx http://www.mrc.org/BiasAlert/uploads/HazMat.jpg 20100527121611 Clay Waters Thu, 27 May 2010 12:16:00 -0400 From reporter Simon Romero, sympathy for recently paroled Lori Berenson, ace baker, music teacher, and unrepentant terrorist helper: "Television crews descended on her neighbors-to-be in Lima, some of whom expressed disgust at the prospect of living near a 'terrorist,' as she is still branded in Lima's newspapers." Lori Berenson, Simon Romero, Terrorism, Peru, Tupac Amaru http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100527121611.aspx 20100527113511 Thu, 27 May 2010 11:35:00 -0400 One last time, reporter Campbell Robertson slants the ACORN story in favor of the left-wing group: "Mr. O'Keefe, whom the judge described as 'extremely talented,' gained fame for secretly recording conversations with workers for Acorn, the community organizing group. In at least one video, Acorn workers advised a conservative activist who was posing as a prostitute how to conceal her criminal activities in the course of trying to buy a house. The heavily edited videos severely damaged Acorn's reputation." Campbell Robertson, ACORN, James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100527113511.aspx 20100526122014 Clay Waters Wed, 26 May 2010 12:20:00 -0400 Legal reporter Charlie Savage: "The legislation is the latest attack on lawyers representing detainees. Although such lawyers have tended to espouse civil libertarian views, some conservative critics have imputed to them a lack of patriotism and sympathy for the cause of Islamist terrorism. Such attacks have also prompted a strong reaction, including by other conservatives who have defended the tradition in the American legal system of lawyers representing unpopular clients. Charlie Savage, Guantanamo Bay, Center for Constitutional Rights, Labeling Bias, Terrorism, Michael Ratner http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100526122014.aspx 20100526101814 Clay Waters Wed, 26 May 2010 10:12:00 -0400 Nick Bunkley's story on Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former Democratic mayor of Detroit, being sent to prison for five years for violating his probation failed to provide his party ID. By contrast, the Times is all too eager to load down misbehaving Republicans with the scarlet "R." Kwame Kilpatrick, Nick Bunkley, Party Identification http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100526101814.aspx 20100526100032 Clay Waters Wed, 26 May 2010 10:00:00 -0400 Whatever happened to the Times' daintiness over sexual allegations involving Democrats like John Edwards? Shaila Dewan barely hedges when reporting claims of an affair between a candidate for South Carolina governor and a political blogger: "But now, one of Mr. Sanford's political allies - who is a top contender to succeed him - finds herself embroiled in a possible sex scandal of her own." Shaila Dewan, Nikki Haley, South Carolina, Affair, Double Standards, John Edwards, Will Folks, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100526100032.aspx 20100525044634 Clay Waters Tue, 25 May 2010 16:46:00 -0400 The Times continued to use its front-page real estate to trumpet last week's G.O.P.'s loss in a special House election in Pennsylvania as a warning sign for the 2010 elections, even though the seat had been occupied by veteran Democrat Rep. John Murtha and Democrats hold a registration edge in the district of 2-1. Carl Hulse, Campaign 2010, Pennsylania, Jeff Zeleny, Republicans http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100525044634.aspx 20100525010834 Clay Waters Tue, 25 May 2010 13:08:00 -0400 Reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal's front-page fret: "Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on climate change has not changed, why have so many people turned away from the idea that human activity is warming the planet?" Elisabeth Rosenthal, Global Warming, Britain, Labeling Bias, Andrew Revkin, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100525010834.aspx 20100525105207 Clay Waters Tue, 25 May 2010 10:51:00 -0400 Peter Baker is the first Times reporter to directly address Sestak's allegations of the White House bribing him to drop out of the Democratic primary, and even raises the hypocrisy angle: "Even if the conversations were perfectly legal, as the White House claims, the situation challenges President Obama's efforts to present himself as a reformer who will fix a town of dirty politics. And the refusal to even discuss what was discussed does not advance the White House's well-worn claim to being 'the most transparent' in history." Peter Baker, Joe Sestak, Barack Obama, Quid Pro Quo http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100525105207.aspx 20100525093811 Clay Waters Tue, 25 May 2010 09:38:00 -0400 David Leonhardt brags on Obama, who is on a regulatory roll: "Today, he looks more like a liberal answer to Ronald Reagan." He then blames Reagan for fostering income inequality, and praises Obama for fighting it. David Leonhardt, Income Inequality, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100525093811.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Leonhardt_2.jpg 20100524050142 Clay Waters Mon, 24 May 2010 17:01:00 -0400 Times political writer John Harwood may have gotten more than he bargained for in an appearance on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC show “Morning Joe” when he tried to defend Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal over his fibs over having served in Vietnam, saying only that Blumenthal "got carried away on a story that he usually told in the right away." John Harwood, Joe Scarborough, Richard Blumenthal, Vietnam http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100524050142.aspx 20100524044835 Clay Waters Mon, 24 May 2010 16:48:00 -0400 Clark Hoyt defends the paper's front-page expose on CT Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's fibbing about serving in Vietnam: "In the end, through all the swirling sand the article has kicked up, a clear set of facts remains uncontested: On more than one occasion, Blumenthal said he had served in Vietnam when he had not." Richard Blumenthal, Clark Hoyt http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100524044835.aspx 20100524043947 Clay Waters Mon, 24 May 2010 16:31:00 -0400 Critic Janet Maslin harshly accused journalist Zev Chafets of exhibiting “Stockholm syndrome” for his failure to lambast Rush Limbaugh in his new biography of the talk radio giant. Rush Limbaugh, Zev Chafets, Janet Maslin, Biography, Books, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100524043947.aspx 20100522010917 Rich Noyes Sat, 22 May 2010 12:57:00 -0400 The front page of Saturday's New York Times screamed how "Arizona Law Reveals Split Within GOP." Fair enough. But the Democrats are ostensibly in worse shape, having publicly and visibly denounced (with the President of Mexico) a popular law that nearly two-thirds of Americans support. immigration, Arizona, Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, Republicans, politics, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100522010917.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2010-05-22-NYT.jpg 20100521122813 Clay Waters Fri, 21 May 2010 12:28:00 -0400 Michael Brick's update from Austin on the ideological fight over Texas textbooks follows the paper's usual pattern of pretending the only ideologues in the fight are "conservative," failing to identify protesters as left-wing or liberal. Michael Brick, Texas, Education, Textbooks, Political Bias, Labelling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100521122813.aspx 20100521104111 Clay Waters Fri, 21 May 2010 10:41:00 -0400 Times takes shot at Kentucky primary winner Rand Paul for his views on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and even criticizes him for holding his victory party at a country club. Rand Paul, Adam Nagourney, Carl Hulse, Libertarians, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Country Club, Campaign 2010, Tea Party, Senate, Kentucky http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100521104111.aspx 20100521091655 Clay Waters Fri, 21 May 2010 09:16:00 -0400 First clue: The bong on the front page of the Dining Section: "Call it haute stoner cuisine." Kim Severson, Cooking, Marijuana, Restaurants http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100521091655.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Cenicola.jpg 20100520024655 Clay Waters Thu, 20 May 2010 14:46:00 -0400 Nothing vague about this lead to a front-page story: "Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating...." Justin Gillis, Gulf Oil Spill, Lead Sentence, Bob Kohn http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100520024655.aspx 20100520014324 Clay Waters Thu, 20 May 2010 13:34:00 -0400 Not much respect for limited government views from reporter David Herszenhorn, as he takes to mocking the Senate Republican leader: "Mr. McConnell's complaint? You guessed it! Government takeover." David Herszenhorn, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Finance http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100520014324.aspx 20100520123451 Clay Waters Thu, 20 May 2010 12:34:00 -0400 After two full stories on a grand total of nine protesters marching for amnesty for illegal immigrant students, the Times follows up with a pungent editorial on the same lame marches. Illegal Immigration, Dream Act, Amnesty, Tea Party, Double Standards, Editorial http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100520123451.aspx 20100520112039 Clay Waters Thu, 20 May 2010 11:20:00 -0400 Reporter Kate Zernike last month pigeon-holed the Tea Party movement as "white and male," fueled by anger and memories from a time "when the country was less diverse." This time Zernike actually found some "largely young supporters" of limited government, albeit in a largely skeptical piece after Rand Paul's Senate primary win in Kentucky. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Kentucky, Rand Paul http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100520112039.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100520103938 Clay Waters Thu, 20 May 2010 10:39:00 -0400 Democrat Mark Critz's victory to fill the House seat of late Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha merited a front-page story analysis on Thursday by congressional reporter Carl Hulse: "House Victory Lifts Democrats' Hopes for Fall." Carl Hulse, Campaign 2010, Pennsylania, Mark Critz, Democrats, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100520103938.aspx 20100519010821 Clay Waters Wed, 19 May 2010 13:08:00 -0400 Economics writer David Leonhardt gets a little melodramatic: "Someday, we will probably look back on our gallon-a-week soda habit the way we now look back on allowing children to ride without seat belts or listening to doctors who endorsed Camel cigarettes." David Leonhardt, Soda Tax, Tobacco, Seat Belts, Pollution http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100519010821.aspx 20100519120423 Clay Waters Wed, 19 May 2010 12:04:00 -0400 Tax-hiking columnist Thomas Friedman took issue with conservatives who claim the massive BP oil spill is Obama's Katrina. According to Friedman, it's actually Obama's 9-11. Thomas Friedman, Gulf Oil Spill, 9-11, Gasoline Taxes, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100519120423.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_on_Charlie_Rose.jpg 20100519113549 Clay Waters Wed, 19 May 2010 11:35:00 -0400 Where's the contradiction? The Times' Damien Cave looks at the Times polling on Arizona's immigration law and divides people into young idealists opposed to it and old baby boomers supporting it: "Meanwhile, baby boomers, despite a youth of 'live and let live,' are siding with older Americans and supporting the Arizona law." Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Generation Gap, Polls http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100519113549.aspx 20100519094938 Clay Waters Wed, 19 May 2010 09:49:00 -0400 The Times' didn't mention the Democratic affiliation of controversy-plagued Connecticut Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal until paragraph three of its expose. By contrast, the Times devoted a headline and lead sentence to the news that womanizing Rep. Mark Souder was a Republican. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. Mark Souder, Carl Hulse, Raymond Hernandez, Party Identification, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100519094938.aspx 20100518113130 Clay Waters Tue, 18 May 2010 11:31:00 -0400 After writing up a pro-amnesty protest involving a grand total of four student marchers in January, reporter Julia Preston followed up with "an escalation of protest tactics" at Sen. John McCain's office in Arizona. By "escalation," Preston evidently means "from four protesters to five." Julia Preston, Illegal Immigration, Arizona, Education, Amnesty, Protests, Gaffes, Tea Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100518113130.aspx 20100518095733 Clay Waters Tue, 18 May 2010 09:57:00 -0400 Columnist Krugman sees a welcome change: "News organizations have taken notice: suddenly, the takeover of the Republican Party by right-wing extremists has become a story." Paul Krugman, Extremism, Campaign 2012, Media http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100518095733.aspx 20100518081842 Clay Waters Tue, 18 May 2010 08:18:00 -0400 "President Obama on Friday angrily assailed the finger-pointing among the three companies involved in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a 'ridiculous spectacle,' even as his own administration came under criticism for failing to do enough to prevent an environmental calamity." John Broder, Helene Cooper, Barack Obama, Gulf Oil Spill, George Bush, Hurricane Katrina, BP http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100518081842.aspx 20100517013840 Clay Waters Mon, 17 May 2010 13:38:00 -0400 Business writer/book reviewer Harry Hurt III summarizes a gushing new autobiography of Obama by Newsweek's "moderately liberal" Jonathan Alter: "Barack Obama demonstrated his economic prowess at an extraordinary White House meeting several weeks before he was even elected president." Harry Hurt III, Barack Obama, Books, Jonathan Alter, Liberal Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100517013840.aspx 20100517112022 Clay Waters Mon, 17 May 2010 11:20:00 -0400 The Times placed left-of-center Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the middle, but found angry conservative uprising in this pecular passage: "It may be a measure of the electorate's angry mood that the Democratic Senate candidate who got the biggest cheer from the steak lovers assembled amid a charcoal haze to worship charred red meat was D. C. Morrison, a former cotton farmer who wants to repeal the new health care law, seal the southern border and abolish income taxes in favor of a consumption tax." James McKinley Jr., Arkansas, Campaign 2012, Democratic Primary, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100517112022.aspx 20100517081324 Clay Waters Mon, 17 May 2010 08:13:00 -0400 Columnist Charles Blow laments that each day is "bringing more news of unconscionable conservative tilts in the electorate" but rallies the leftist troops with a reworking of an positivity slogan: "Great Recessions don't last. Great ideas do." Charles Blow, Polls, Campaign 2010, Liberalism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100517081324.aspx 20100516070711 Tim Graham Sun, 16 May 2010 07:07:00 -0400 Thomas Friedman knows best: "I think we're entering an era - how long it will last I dare not predict - where being in politics is going to be more than anything else about taking things away from people. And that shift from leaders giving things away to leaders taking things away, I don't think we know what that looks like over time." Thomas Friedman, Autocracy, Environment http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100516070711.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Friedman_on_Charlie_Rose.jpg 20100514022541 Clay Waters Fri, 14 May 2010 14:21:00 -0400 Liberal Supreme Court pick Elena Kagan not politically correct enough for the Times? "The administration has been pushing back against any suggestion that Ms. Kagan has been insensitive on racial matters, as have some of her black supporters." Elena Kagan, Katharine Seelye, Racial Issues, Harvard, Supreme Court, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100514022541.aspx 20100514020823 Clay Waters Fri, 14 May 2010 14:08:00 -0400 A long front-page article about how some jobs aren't coming back doesn't even mention Obama's name. Did the Times cover unemployment under Reagan and Bush in similar fashion? Hardly. Catherine Rampell, Economy, Unemploymeny, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100514020823.aspx 20100514101245 Clay Waters Fri, 14 May 2010 10:11:00 -0400 Times' politics-obsessed movie critic A.O. Scott finds parallels between the "manly libertarian rebel" that is the hero of "Robin Hood" and the Tea Party movement. Scott also again rides to how the French are portrayed in a work of fiction. A.O. Scott, Movies, Robin Hood, France, Gaffes, Tea Party, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100514101245.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/A.O.Scott.jpg 20100513035344 Clay Waters Thu, 13 May 2010 15:53:00 -0400 So even the Bush administration knew they had "gone too far" in deregulation? That's according to Times reporter Eric Lipton, who doesn't sound very fair and balanced here: "The push for some of the measures began at the end of the Bush administration, a tacit acknowledgment that its deregulatory agenda had gone too far." Eric Lipton, Regulations, Barack Obama, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100513035344.aspx 20100513124126 Clay Waters Thu, 13 May 2010 12:41:00 -0400 Where did that come from? "But Republicans be warned: Florida is a place of big dreams and big guffaws. Democrats (Gary Hart) and Republicans (Rush Limbaugh) have both drowned in scandal here..." Damien Cave, Tampa, Campaign 2012, Rush Limbaugh, Diversity, GOP Convention, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100513124126.aspx 20100513120923 Clay Waters Thu, 13 May 2010 12:09:00 -0400 The Times runs a front page story alleging racial discrimination by the NYPD with research solely from an unlabeled hard-left Center for Constitutional Rights, who represents defendants at Guantanamo Bay and whose president said during the Bush years: "Every American should be in political rebellion against the criminals now running this country." Al Baker, Police, Racism, Discrimination, New York City, Labeling Bias, Center for Constitutional Rights http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100513120923.aspx 20100512014314 Clay Waters Wed, 12 May 2010 13:43:00 -0400 Editor-turned-columnist Gail Collins has a long history of adoring Sanger: "For the Lower East Side there are so many potential subjects that it might be better to commandeer an entire city park and create a walk flanked by statues....It would also be a good place to honor Margaret Sanger, who first became obsessed with the need for effective birth control when she worked as a nurse there." Gail Collins, Margaret Sanger, Eugenics, Birth Control http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100512014314.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collins.jpg 20100512010434 Clay Waters Wed, 12 May 2010 13:04:00 -0400 Huh? Leonhardt blames Tea Partiers for not being serious about cutting spending: "Just last weekend, Tea Party members helped deny Senator Robert Bennett, the Utah Republican, his party's nomination for his re-election campaign, in part because he had co-sponsored a health reform plan with a Democratic senator. Economists generally think the plan would have done more to reduce Medicare spending than the bill that passed. So, whatever its intentions, the Tea Party effectively punished Mr. Bennett for not being a big enough fan of big government." David Leonhardt, Tea Party, Deficits, Greece, Income Taxes, Obama-care, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100512010434.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Leonhardt_2.jpg 20100511013858 Clay Waters Tue, 11 May 2010 13:38:00 -0400 While discounting the value of abstinence education, reporter Roni Caryn Rabin twice quoted Planned Parenthood without mentioning that it's a pro-abortion conglomerate which operates abortion clinics. Roni Caryn Rabin, Planned Parenthood, Sex Education, Abstinence, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100511013858.aspx 20100511124329 Clay Waters Tue, 11 May 2010 12:43:00 -0400 The Times main battle plan: Avoiding the L-word at all costs. Labeling Bias, Kevin Sack, Charles Savage, Civil Libertarians, Obama-care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100511124329.aspx 20100511120727 Clay Waters Tue, 11 May 2010 00:07:00 -0400 Peter Baker wonders if Elena Kagan is liberal enough to battle with the staunch conservatives on the Supreme Court, while the Times fawns over Kagan the "opera-loving, poker-playing, glass-ceiling-shattering" product of New York's Upper West Side. Peter Baker, Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, Labeling Bias, Antonin Scalia, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100511120727.aspx 20100510024049 Clay Waters Mon, 10 May 2010 14:40:00 -0400 Left-wing columnist Paul Krugman blames the president's policies for the massive oil leak in the Gulf. No, not President Obama, but the one that left office over 15 months ago. He's also the third Times columnist to see a "silver lining to the disaster in the gulf," for it is "a reminder that we need politicians who believe in good government, because there are some jobs only the government can do." Paul Krugman, Gulf Oil Spill, George W. Bush, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100510024049.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100510011015 Clay Waters Mon, 10 May 2010 13:10:00 -0400 Paranoid sports columnist George Vecsey suggests that Major League Baseball players boycott Arizona: "Speaking as somebody with relatives of various hues and backgrounds, I wouldn't want them going to Arizona during the current time of the troubles. I also worry about the health of the ballplayers. If any All-Stars feel the Arizona Flu coming on, they should lie down and rest." George Vecsey, Arizona, NBA Basketball, Major League Baseball, Double Standards, Duke Lacrosse, Masters Golf Tournament, Augusta National, Tiger Woods, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100510011015.aspx http://www.mrc.org/BiasAlert/uploads/George_Vecsey.jpg 20100510123649 Clay Waters Mon, 10 May 2010 12:36:00 -0400 Charles Blow, officially obsessed with the Tea Party movement: "Racist. Tea Party. Are those separate concepts or a single one? Depends on whom you ask." Charles Blow, Tea Parties, Racism, Gaffes, Washington Post, Poll http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100510123649.aspx 20100510111136 Brent Baker Mon, 10 May 2010 11:11:00 -0400 "This is a damn outrage,” a disgusted David Brooks, the faux conservative columnist for the Times, declared on Sunday's Meet the Press reacting to Republican Senator Bob Bennett's loss Saturday at Utah's Republican convention which chose two others to compete in a June primary for the seat. Brooks fretted he was punished for being “a good conservative who was trying to get things done” by “bravely” working with Democrats on health care and supporting TARP. David Brooks, Bob Bennett, Utah, Senate, Campaign 2010, Columnists, E.J. Dionne, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100510111136.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2010-05-09-NBC-MTP-Brooks.jpg 20100507033644 Clay Waters Fri, 07 May 2010 15:36:00 -0400 Julia Preston serves as stenographer for La Raza president Janet Murguia, who two years ago called for Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Lou Dobbs to be removed from the airwaves for "hate speech" against immigrants. La Raza, Arizona, Immigration, Labeling Bias, Janet Murguía, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100507033644.aspx http://www.mrc.org/BiasAlert/uploads/La_Raza.jpg 20100507025731 Clay Waters Fri, 07 May 2010 14:57:00 -0400 Reporter Katharine Seelye's profile reads like an attempt to portray liberal former Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan, a potential Supreme Court pick, as a moderate. Katharine Seelye, Elena Kagan, Supreme Court, Harvard, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Military Recruiters, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100507025731.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/katharineseelye.jpg 20100507120802 Clay Waters Fri, 07 May 2010 12:08:00 -0400 Times headlines salute anti-war "granny" group in Manhattan that are neither all-granny nor even all-women: "Not all of the 21 people who showed up this past Wednesday were actually grannies. Five were men. A few of the women were relatively young, in their 50s. But most were women of years who belonged to antiwar groups with 'grannies' and 'grandmothers' in their titles." Close enough for liberal Times journalists. Clyde Haberman, Grannies, Anti-War Protesters, Manhattan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100507120802.aspx 20100507110930 Clay Waters Fri, 07 May 2010 11:10:00 -0400 Classy word choice: "...a newly outspoken wing of Israel supporters has begun to challenge the old-school reflexive support of the country's policies, suggesting that one does not have to be slavish to Israeli policies to love Israel." Paul Vitello, American Jews, J Street, Gaffes, Barack Obama, Settlements, Jerusalem, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100507110930.aspx 20100506024158 Clay Waters Thu, 06 May 2010 14:41:00 -0400 Times' music writer Jon Caramanica also details the 2003 battle between the vulgarly anti-war Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and "reliable jingoist" Toby Keith. Chely Wright, Dixie Chicks, Toby Keith, Gay Rights, Country Music, Jon Caramanica, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100506024158.aspx 20100506015312 Scott Whitlock Thu, 06 May 2010 13:53:00 -0400 GMA's hosts and producers know what to expect when they have columnist Thomas Friedman on: Requests for yet more taxes on the American public. Thomas Friedman, Good Morning America, Taxes, Environment, Oil http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100506015312.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2010-05-06-ABC-GMA-Friedman.jpg 20100506012642 Clay Waters Thu, 06 May 2010 13:26:00 -0400 Stephanie Clifford's front-page piece on the money-losing Newsweek doesn't mention the mag's liberal opinionizing. But she was quick to snidely spot a right-wing slant at Reader's Digest. Stephanie Clifford, Newsweek, Labeling Bias, Liberal Bias, Reader's Digest http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100506012642.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/stephanieclifford.jpg 20100506114334 Clay Waters Thu, 06 May 2010 11:43:00 -0400 The Times favors free expression in video games: "The Constitution, however, does not require speech to be ideal for it to be protected." But not in speech on issues of the day: "Congress must act immediately to limit the damage of this radical decision, which strikes at the heart of democracy." Editorials, Free Speech, Hypocrisy, Video Games, First Amendment, Supreme Court http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100506114334.aspx 20100505034607 Clay Waters Wed, 05 May 2010 15:46:00 -0400 At least one Times columnist has her priorities straight. Gail Collins: "Polls show that the country as a whole has lost a lot of its passion for environmental issues. Maybe the oil spill will bring it back. That'd be one bright spot in all this mess." Gail Collins, David Brooks, Gaffes, Oil Spill, Gulf http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100505034607.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collin.jpg 20100505030304 Clay Waters Wed, 05 May 2010 15:03:00 -0400 Blech: "President Obama's young staff and their senior counterparts mix seamlessly and often sweetly....The young staff members in the Obama White House have not only helped create a new social scene but also nonchalantly reign over it." Because it's important for the White House staff to be hip. Ashley Parker, Barack Obama, White House, Staffers, George W. Bush http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100505030304.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/02obamastaff-t_CA1-articleInline.jpg 20100505125047 Clay Waters Wed, 05 May 2010 12:50:00 -0400 Jennifer Steinhauer gives the candidates their due, but can't resist a cheap shot: "Videos taken at some Tea Party rallies show some participants holding up signs with racially inflammatory language." The paper has yet to address violence at left-wing May Day rallies or at a protest against Arizona's new illegal immigration law. Jennifer Steinhauer, Black Republicans, Campaign 2010, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Racism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100505125047.aspx 20100504025341 Clay Waters Tue, 04 May 2010 14:53:00 -0400 Jackie Calmes says Obama "supporters" calls him a "pragmatist" - but so does the New York Times. She also puts the Tea Party movement on the "far right." Jackie Calmes, Labeling Bias, Tea Party, Far Right, Barack Obama, Pragmatist http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100504025341.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/JackieCalmes.jpg 20100504115217 Clay Waters Tue, 04 May 2010 11:52:00 -0400 The paper's usual labeling imbalance was on display in how it treated left-wing vs right-wing critics of PBS. Bill Moyers, Elizabeth Jensen, Brian Stelter, Labeling Bias, Jon Meachem, PBS http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100504115217.aspx 20100504111210 Clay Waters Tue, 04 May 2010 11:12:00 -0400 The Times initially spun a 60%-36% pro-enforcement gap as a "slim margin." And the law doesn't give "police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally,” as the misleading NYT/CBS News poll question claims, but requires reasonable suspicion of such by a policeman, coupled with a “lawful stop, detention or arrest.” Polls, Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Randal Archibold, Megan Thee-Brenan, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100504111210.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia.png 20100503032523 Clay Waters Mon, 03 May 2010 15:25:00 -0400 Obama encouraged University of Michigan graduates to keep an open mind: "If you're someone who only reads the editorial page of The New York Times, try glancing at the page of The Wall Street Journal once in awhile." Barack Obama, New York Times, University of Michigan, Liberal Bias, Editorials http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100503032523.aspx 20100503030136 Clay Waters Mon, 03 May 2010 15:01:00 -0400 In a bleak year for Democrats, James McKinley finds hope for Texas Democrat Bill White against sitting governor Rick Perry, who some say "has moved too far to the right." James McKinley Jr., Texas, Governor, Labeling Bias, Rick Perry, Bil White http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100503030136.aspx 20100503013205 Clay Waters Mon, 03 May 2010 13:32:00 -0400 The Times chides Obama in two stories and an editorial on Saturday for his administration's dilatory response to the oil spill in the Gulf. Helene Cooper, Campbell Robertson, Eric Lipton, BP America, Oil Spill, Barack Obama, Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100503013205.aspx 20100503125014 Clay Waters Mon, 03 May 2010 12:50:00 -0400 Is Frank Rich losing his edge? His by-the-numbers column on Arizona's tough new anti-immigration law is actually (slightly) less virulent than columns by Times colleagues and former reporters Linda Greenhouse and Timothy Egan. Frank Rich, Racism, Arizona, Immigration, Barack Obama, Willie Horton http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100503125014.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/FrankRich.jpg 20100501074343 Tim Graham Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:39:00 -0400 The Times again defined a tiny protest by pro-amnesty lobbyists as national news - this time, protesting the Arizona Diamondbacks outside a Chicago Cubs game. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100501074343.aspx 20100429083849 Clay Waters Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:38:00 -0400 Plus no liberals on the Supreme Court and angry white male reactionary Tea Partiers Frank Rich, Charles Blow, Paul Krugman, Quotes of Note, Kate Zernike, Racism, Tea Party Protestors http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100429083849.aspx 20100429032233 Clay Waters Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:22:00 -0400 Former Times reporter Timothy Egan: "The crackpot laws owe their genesis to the crackpots who dominate Republican politics, who in turn cannot get elected without the backing of crackpot media." Timothy Egan, Arizona, Illegal Immigration, Talk Radio, Marc Lacey, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100429032233.aspx 20100429010204 Clay Waters Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:02:00 -0400 Back in January, a four-student “march” from Miami to Washington on behalf of illegals somehow merited a 780-word Times article. By contrast, a massive anti-Obama rally that attracted over 100,000 people to the Capitol resulted in a 932-word piece. They've finally arrived at the White House, to more acclaim. Illegal Immigration, Dream Act, March, Washington, Julia Preston, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100429010204.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Four_immigrants.jpg 20100429114257 Clay Waters Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:42:00 -0400 Ever sensitive to internecine squabbles among conservatives, the Times jumped on the latest one: "'Epistemic Closure'? Those Are Fighting Words, Friend." The text box: "Conservatives' spat over closed-mindedness is very much in the open." Well, now it is, anyway. But just how prominent are reporter Patricia Cohen's "prominent conservatives"? Patricia Cohen, Conservatives, National Review, Epistemic Closure, David Frum, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100429114257.aspx 20100428032605 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:26:00 -0400 Reporter Winnie Hu continues to push against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's fight against the teachers' unions: The protest offered "a real-life civics lesson that unfolded on lawns, sidewalks, parking lots and football fields." Winnie Hu, Education, Spending, New Jersey, Chris Christie, George Will, Walkout, Protests http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100428032605.aspx 20100428025418 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:54:00 -0400 Monica Davey gives The Vatican a say: "Jeffrey S. Lena, a California lawyer representing the Holy See, said that while Mr. Anderson had performed an important function...his legal maneuvers against the Vatican tended to operate from a misreading of the how the church is organized. Mr. Anderson views the church as a purely 'top-down' structure, Mr. Lena said, whereas much power is actually exercised locally by bishops without the direct involvement or knowledge of the Holy See." Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse, Monica Davey, Jeffrey Anderson, Lawsuits http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100428025418.aspx 20100428123838 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:32:00 -0400 The opening to Carl Hulse's front-page story on his favorite topic - Democrats putting the screws to the G.O.P.: "Politicians like nothing more than a convenient foil, and Democrats locked in a stubborn impasse with Republicans over new rules to govern Wall Street believe they have found a gold-plated one in Goldman Sachs." Carl Hulse, Congress, Goldman Sachs, Financial Reform, Mortgages http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100428123838.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20100428105740 Clay Waters Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:58:00 -0400 In a friendly chat with left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Times Book Review/Week in Review editor Sam Tanenhaus compares the Tea Party movement to the John Birch Society, proclaims "there are no serious ideas left on the right," and says today's conservatives are led by extremists. Sam Tanenhaus, Rachel Maddow, Tea Party, John Birch Society, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100428105740.aspx 20100427032837 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:28:00 -0400 Chronically pessimistic Peter Goodman is suddenly Mr. Happy about the U.S. economic recovery: "At malls from New Jersey to California, shoppers are snapping up electronics and furniture, as fears of joblessness yield to exuberance over rising stock prices." Peter Goodman, Economy, Campaign 2010, Recovery, Stimulus Package http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100427032837.aspx 20100427013035 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:30:00 -0400 Jerusalem-based reporter Isabel Kershner is running out of things to call conservative Israeli protesters. Isabel Kershner, Israel, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100427013035.aspx 20100427105441 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:54:00 -0400 Former Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse retains her fairness and balance: "I'm glad I've already seen the Grand Canyon. Because I'm not going back to Arizona as long as it remains a police state, which is what the appalling anti-immigrant bill that Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law last week has turned it into." Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court, Illegal Immigration, Arizona, Nazism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100427105441.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/LindaGreenhousePBS.jpg 20100427104847 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:48:00 -0400 The MRC's 'CyberAlert' e-mail report will keep you up to date on how your friends, relatives and neighbors are being misled by the left-wingers who dominate the mainstream media. Cyberalert, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100427104847.aspx 20100427102118 Clay Waters Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:21:00 -0400 Liberal economics reporter Louis Uchitelle on who's to blame for the banking crisis: "Ronald Reagan, of course, brought us back to the efficient-market hypothesis with its faith in laissez-faire - a faith embraced, to one degree or another, by all of Reagan's successors as well. Who needs government oversight when markets correct themselves, they agreed, and so they stood by as regulations disappeared or were canceled." Louis Uchitelle, http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100427102118.aspx 20100426033646 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:36:00 -0400 Randal Archibold describes a demonstration involving advocates for illegal immigrants: "As hundreds of demonstrators massed, mostly peacefully, at the capitol plaza..." There were actually three arrests at the rally, two for assaults on police. Can you imagine the coverage if this had happened at a Tea Party rally? Randal Archibold, Illegal Immigration, Arizona, Gaffes, Labeling Bias, Violent Protests, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100426033646.aspx 20100426021114 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:11:00 -0400 Mike Hale goes there: "The slaughter of hundreds of unarmed villagers in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, in March 1968 - an event that came to be known as the My Lai massacre - is both an open wound in the American psyche and a cautionary tale at a time when we are once again fighting wars, and killing civilians, on foreign soil." Mike Hale, Television, PBS, My Lai Massacre, Vietnam War, Iraq, Afghanistan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100426021114.aspx 20100426014714 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:47:00 -0400 The Times goes after an old enemy indirectly, in a flattering profile of "The Daily Show" and its relentless "fact-checking" of Fox News. Jon Stewart, Brian Stelter, Fox News, The Daily Show, Conservative Bias, Media Matters http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100426014714.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Fox_Stewart.jpg 20100426011718 Clay Waters Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:18:00 -0400 Ross Douthat: "But there's still a sense in which the 'South Park' case is particularly illuminating. Not because it tells us anything new about the lines that writers and entertainers suddenly aren't allowed to cross. But because it's a reminder that Islam is just about the only place where we draw any lines at all....This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that 'bravely' trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force." Ross Douthat, Islam, "South Park," Comedy Central, Religion, Terrorism, Censorship, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100426011718.aspx 20100426112143 Brent Baker Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:21:00 -0400 Reacting to news the Obama administration wants to postpone a vote on “Cap and Trade” in favor of immigration reform, Times columnist Tom Friedman despaired on Sunday's Face the Nation: “This is a disaster...This is a travesty. Basically, we were about to send the first bi-partisan legislation for radical move toward more green energy, more green jobs and putting a price on carbon...” Thomas Friedman, Cap and Trade, Immigration Reform, Face the Nation, China http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100426112143.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2010-04-25-CBS-FN-Friedman.jpg 20100423024234 Clay Waters Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:42:00 -0400 Bill Keller, the New York Times executive editor, uses a book review to make a crack at his right-leaning newspaper rival Rupert Murdoch: "The last of his breed of media tycoon is a 79-year-old Australian billionaire whose impact has been more corrosive than cohesive." Bill Keller, Rupert Murdoch, Book Review, Henry Luce, Media Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100423024234.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KellerPBS.jpg 20100423122059 Clay Waters Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:20:00 -0400 The creators of the Comedy Central cartoon “South Park” had their lives threatened by a Muslim group for insulting the prophet Muhammad, but two Times headlines said they were merely being “warned." It's not the first time the paper has expressed a double standard regarding insults of Islam versus Christianity. Religion, Censorship, Terrorism, Islam, South Park, Hypocrisy, Headlines, Dave Itzkoff, Television, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100423122059.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/muhammed.jpg 20100423102835 Geoff Dickens Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:28:00 -0400 NYT writer and CNBC personality John Harwood pressed Barack Obama about the need to regulate Wall Street as he questioned the president if Americans needed to view financial companies in the same way they view Big Tobacco as "companies whose core activities are harmful to the country?" http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100423102835.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Harwood_20100423102006.JPG 20100422023649 Clay Waters Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:36:00 -0400 New Jerseyans, angry at the stubbornness of the teachers' unions for refusing to accept wage freezes during a recession, voted down NJ school budgets. Reporter Winnie Hu takes the side of the unions: "Many school officials said students were the losers in Tuesday's elections." Meanwhile, many taxpayers said they were the winners. Winnie Hu, Education, Spending, New Jersey, Chris Christie, George Will http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100422023649.aspx 20100422105834 Clay Waters Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:57:00 -0400 The Times portrays Florida governor Charlie Crist, who may drop out of the Republican Party and run as an independent candidate for Senate, as a moderate "pragmatist" in the mode of...Obama? Will Crist win and hurt the Tea Party movement? The Times has its hopes. Charlie Crist, Labeling Bias, Florida, Senate, Marco Rubio, Campaign 2010, Tea Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100422105834.aspx 20100421031430 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:14:00 -0400 A study on where people of different political persuasions get their news finds that the New York Times readership is the most liberal of any cited news outlet that holds itself out as an “objective” news source: "Readers of the New York Times print edition are substantially more liberal than those of USA Today or the Wall Street Journal." Liberal Bias, Readership, Academic Study, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100421031430.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Table3.bmp 20100421121533 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:15:00 -0400 Just in time not to make a difference, the Times raises skeptical questions about Obama-care. This after a year of dismissing conservative concerns as myths and pushing the bloated program across the legislative finish line. David Herszenhorn, Obama-Care, Anemona Hartocollis, Roni Caryn Rabin http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100421121533.aspx 20100421112410 Clay Waters Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:24:00 -0400 Randal Archibold clearly doesn't approve of the "rightward tilt" of Arizona's Republicans that led to John McCain endorsing the state law, and finds "national civil rights groups and faith leaders" who don't like it either. Randal Archibold, Illegal Immigration, Arizona, John McCain, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100421112410.aspx 20100420011115 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:11:00 -0400 The front of Sunday Styles celebrates gay comic book heroes and their "Skin Tight" dress-up fans: "A recent addition to this super-powered pride parade is Shatterstar, who in an issue of X-Factor last year sealed his reunion with another hero, Rictor, with a kiss." It's not the first time writer George Gene Gustines has tackled this vital cultural subject. George Gene Gustines, Comic Books, Gays http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100420011115.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Skin_Tight.jpg 20100420110132 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:01:00 -0400 Charles Blow conducts a testy interview with host Laura Ingraham in which he admits he saw no "overt racism" at the Tea Party he attended, and refused to explain why he still accused minority Tea Party activists as conducting a "minstrel show." Charles Blow, Tea Parties, Racism, Laura Ingraham http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100420110132.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Charles_Blow.jpg 20100420101626 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:16:00 -0400 Blame those lousy descendants of Vikings for the crash of 2008, says reporter Kirk Semple reporting from the Iceland volcano. Kirk Semple, Iceland, Volcano, Free Market, Financial Meltdown http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100420101626.aspx 20100420100054 Clay Waters Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:00:00 -0400 Frank Rich: "Most Americans who don't like Obama or the health care bill are not racists. It may be a closer call among Tea Partiers, of whom only 1 percent are black, according to last week's much dissected Times/CBS News poll." Next came comparisons to OKC bomber Tim McVeigh. Frank Rich, Racism, Tea Party Protestors, Polls, Confederate History Month, Timothy McVeigh, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100420100054.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/FrankRich.jpg 20100419025546 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:55:00 -0400 Thomas Friedman doesn't miss a chance: "Our national debate today is dominated by the ignorant ramblings of Sarah Palin, talk-show lunatics, tea parties and politics as sports..." Thomas Friedman, Sarah Palin, Tea Parties, Talks Shows http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100419025546.aspx 20100419020401 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:04:00 -0400 Columnist Charles Blow trods some highly questionable ground when insulting black Tea Party activists: "...I saw a political minstrel show devised for the entertainment of those on the rim of obliviousness and for those engaged in the subterfuge of intolerance." But in his lust to portray the Tea Party as lily-white, Blow got his facts wrong. Charles Blow, Tea Parties, Racism, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100419020401.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Charles_Blow.jpg 20100419113151 Clay Waters Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:31:00 -0400 Reporter Kate Zernike on the reactionary Tea Party movement: "They tend to be white and male, with a disproportionate number above 45, and above 65. Their memories are of a different time, when the country was less diverse." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Hypocrisy, Protesters, Racism, Polls, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100419113151.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100419100232 Tim Graham Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:02:00 -0400 The Times engaged in promoting a very tabloidish display of exhibitionism on Friday's front page. Claudia LaRocco, Museum of Modern Art, Nudity, Marina Abramovic http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100419100232.aspx 20100416010130 Clay Waters Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:01:00 -0400 Carl Hulse lets Bill Clinton suggest Tea Party protesters may be lighting the fuse for another Oklahoma City bombing: "The pitched attacks by some Republicans and conservatives during the health care fight have drawn criticism as incendiary as have the use of terms and imagery like the placing of target cross hairs over the districts of vulnerable Democrats who backed health care....In the period before the Oklahoma City bombing, there was a growing antigovernment sentiment being expressed through a militia movement and anger at government officials....Mr. Clinton recalls that he and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were characterized by Newt Gingrich, then the Republican Congressional leader, as the enemies of ordinary Americans." Carl Hulse, Oklahoma City, Democratic Leadership Council, Tea Party Protesters, Bill Clinton, Targeted Districts, Obama Care, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100416010130.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/BP_0405_heartland1.gif 20100416103431 Clay Waters Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:35:00 -0400 Adam Nossiter manages to write a story about children in Islamic religious schools in Senegal forced to beg in the streets without describing the religion in question: Islam. Adam Nosssiter, Senegal, Islam, Bias by Omission, Religion, Double Standards, Headlines, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100416103431.aspx 20100416100156 Clay Waters Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:01:00 -0400 Former reporter Egan takes on the "extreme" Supremes: "This court, activist conservative in the extreme, has never met a corporation it has not coddled, nor a prosecution argument that does not have superior merit. In criminal proceedings, the state is nearly always right, and in commercial matters those with the most power continue to prevail. They've done lasting damage to the democracy, most recently with a decision that overturned nearly a century of legal thought and found that corporations are people too." Timothy Egan, Supreme Court, Labeling Bias, John Paul Stevens, Conservatives, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100416100156.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TimothyEgan.jpg 20100415013816 Clay Waters Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:38:00 -0400 Some more of that hard-bitten Times reporting: "Often called the First Lady of Fashion, Mrs. Obama has a sense of style, as we all know by now, that rivals Jackie Kennedy's. She has boosted the spirits of the American fashion industry..." Michelle Obama, Eric Wilson, Fashion, Guy Trebay http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100415013816.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Fashion_Plate.jpg 20100415124659 Clay Waters Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:46:00 -0400 Columnist Gail Collins ironically asks when anti-tax groups will hold "rallies to thank the president for doing so much to reduce the burden on the half of the country least able to pay." Apparently conservatives are expected to protest only in their own selfish interests, not for what they see as the greater good of all (lower taxes for everyone) Gail Collins, Tea Party, 47%, Income Tax, Polls, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100415124659.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collin.jpg 20100415102449 Clay Waters Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:24:00 -0400 The Times lead story by Kate Zernike on its new poll of Tea Party protesters: Good start, questionable finish: "Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits. Others could not explain the contradiction." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Poll, Megan Thee-Brenan, Racism, Hypocrisy, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100415102449.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100415092530 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:25:00 -0400 The Times' Eastern Europe correspondent Dan Bilefsky can't deal with the "crass commercialism" taking over Europe after the fall of Communism: "Learning the lessons of capitalism; profit nudges grief aside." Dan Bilefsky, Poland, Capitalism, Communism, Lech Kaczynski http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100415092530.aspx 20100414041216 Clay Waters Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:11:00 -0400 Paul Krugman, once an economist, then a left-wing talking-points purveyor, and now an expert climatologist: "Sea levels would rise, with the impact intensified by those storms: coastal flooding, already a major source of natural disasters, would become much more frequent and severe. And there might be drastic changes in the climate of some regions as ocean currents shift. It's always worth bearing in mind that London is at the same latitude as Labrador; without the Gulf Stream, Western Europe would be barely habitable." Paul Krugman, Global Warming, Sunday Magazine http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100414041216.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100414014303 Clay Waters Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:43:00 -0400 Julia Preston's celebration of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's promise to push for amnesty for illegals "this year" made Sunday's print edition. Yet Reid's reversal three days later was relegated to nytimes.com. Harry Reid, Carl Hulse, Julia Preston, Illegal Immigration, Amnesty, Gaffes, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100414014303.aspx 20100414122905 Clay Waters Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:29:00 -0400 The NYT's voice on fiscal policy wants higher taxes on everyone but most importantly, the rich: "The answer is that tax rates almost certainly have to rise more on the affluent than on other groups." He also called higher taxes on the rich "an American tradition." David Leonhardt, Income Taxes, Income Inequality, 47%, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100414122905.aspx 20100413035438 Clay Waters Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:54:00 -0400 Hypocrisy on stilts: Columnist Paul Krugman, who has accused the GOP of “eliminationist rhetoric” and global-warming skeptics of “treason against the planet,” chides a fellow Times writer for "caricaturing" his view on an issue, "making it sound far more extreme than it actually was." Paul Krugman, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bank Failures, Racism, Obama-care, Hypocrisy, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100413035438.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100413121511 Clay Waters Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:15:00 -0400 The Times' health care reporter Robert Pear uncovers a big goof in Obama-care: "Congress members may need to go insurance shopping." He adds: "The confusion raises the inevitable question: If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?" Robert Pear, Obama-Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100413121511.aspx 20100413100901 Clay Waters Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:09:00 -0400 Congressional reporter Carl Hulse: "Republicans rejected Democratic assertions that they were being heartless and said they recognized the need for unemployment aid....Democrats say Republicans are being hypocritical in light of their recent support for tax cuts that added to the deficit and are now picking the wrong issue on which to make a stand." Carl Hulse, Unemployment Benefits, Congress, Conservatives http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100413100901.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20100412032914 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:29:00 -0400 The creator of "Avatar," which the Times calls "his epic tale of greed versus nature," is saving the indigenous people in Brazil, and threatens - um, promises, a sequel. James Cameron, Alexei Barrionuevo, Avatar, Environmentalism, Movies, Bias by Omission http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100412032914.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/11brazil_CA0-articleLarge.jpg 20100412015338 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:53:00 -0400 The Catholic Church and Islam are the same thing when it comes to their treatment of women according to Maureen Dowd: "I, too, rationalized as men in dresses allowed our religious kingdom to decay and to cling to outdated misogynistic rituals, blind to the benefits of welcoming women's brains, talents and hearts into their ancient fraternity." Maureen Dowd, Ross Douthat, Catholic Church, Sex Abuse, Feminism, Vatican, Saudi Arabia, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100412015338.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MaureenDowd.jpg 20100412013001 Clay Waters Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:29:00 -0400 Liberal Justice John Paul Stevens, friend of humanity: "He has been alert to the humanity of the people whose cases made their way to the court." In a series of articles on Stevens' retirement, the Times talked up the Supreme Court's alleged rightward drift, while downplaying Stevens' liberal opinions and painting him as some kind of conservative in his early years on the bench. John Paul Stevens, Labeling Bias, Supreme Court, Linda Greenhouse, Adam Liptak, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100412013001.aspx 20100409032504 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:25:00 -0400 Times former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is still spouting self-righteous liberalism on nytimes.com, this time on immigration: "In this nation of immigrants and their descendants, we have become so obsessed with rooting out, locking up and packing off those whom we decide should not be permitted to remain among us that we are in danger of losing a moral center of gravity." Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court, Illegal Immigration, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100409032504.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/LindaGreenhousePBS.jpg 20100409015022 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:51:00 -0400 Charlie Savage on Justice Stevens, April 9: "In cases involving prisoners held without charge at the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the mentally retarded on death row, his version of American justice propelled by common sense and moral clarity commanded a majority." Adam Liptak on Justice Stevens, Jan. 26: "In cases involving prisoners held without charge at Guantánamo Bay and the mentally retarded on death row, his version of American justice was propelled by common sense and moral clarity, and it commanded a majority." Justice John Paul Stevens, Charlie Savage, Adam Liptak, Supreme Court, Gaffes, Plagiarism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100409015022.aspx 20100409012238 Clay Waters Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:22:00 -0400 The paper's financial correspondent Floyd Norris earns rare front-page placement with a column blaring optimism about the U.S. economy. Floyd Norris, Placement, Economy, Campaign 2010 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100409012238.aspx 20100408021711 Clay Waters Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:17:00 -0400 Just don't call the former prostitution ring client a Democrat, OK? Eliot Spitzer, Jan Hoffman, Sex Scandals, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100408021711.aspx 20100408111139 Clay Waters Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:15:00 -0400 More anti-Israel double standards: Reporter Isabel Kershner's sympathetic story about unlabeled leftwing "rights" groups allegedly being "harassed" by conservatives, the Israeli government and an “ultra-Zionist nongovernmental organization.” Isabel Kershner, Israel, Double Standards, Labeling Bias, Human Rights Watch, Nazi Memorabilia, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100408111139.aspx 20100408101108 Clay Waters Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:11:00 -0400 Seven years after the paper's ill-fated crusade against Augusta National Golf Club's refusal to admit women, sports columnist George Vecsey columnist again rebukes the site of The Masters tournament as sexist and racist: "...it stands for money and power and the exclusion of women and goodness knows what hidden messages in the public rebuking of “our hero,” who is part Thai and part African-American. Just asking, but would Payne have been so quick to deliver his little sermon to a white golfer who was caught straying?" George Vecsey, Masters Golf Tournament, Augusta National, Tiger Woods, Martha Burk, Feminism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100408101108.aspx 20100407020910 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:09:00 -0400 A Democratic senator who was the target of a death threat was readily identified as a Democrat - but disgraced former Democratic senator and presidential candidate John Edwards was simply...John Edwards. Double Standards, John Edwards, Patty Murray, Reille Hunter, Party Identification http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100407020910.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Double_Standards_Party_ID.png 20100407112954 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:29:00 -0400 On the morning the RNC announced impressive donation figures for the month of March, chief political reporter Adam Nagourney goes after beleagured RNC chairman Michael Steele for, among other things, "lagging fundraising." He later argued "Faced with so many races in play, the Republicans cannot afford to have a drop-off in contributions." Apparently, they haven't. Adam Nagourney, Campaign 2010, Michael Steele, Donations, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100407112954.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20100407100920 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:09:00 -0400 No Times reporter covered the arrest made after death threats against Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican. Yet David Herszenhorn filed a 10-paragraph story on news of an arrest in regard to death threats against a prominent Democratic senator, Sen. Patty Murray. David Herszenhorn, Death Threats, Double Standards, Patty Murray, Obama-Care, Eric Cantor http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100407100920.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn2new.jpg 20100407094658 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:46:00 -0400 A retired federal employee reports a flaw in a tax-prep program that could have saved him money, and the Times honors him as a true patriot: “Taxpayer Could Have Kept the $600, but He Put His Country First." David Kocieniewski, Taxes, Patriotism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100407094658.aspx 20100407093450 Clay Waters Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:34:00 -0400 When was this? Top book critic Michiko Kakutani uses David Remnick's new Obama biography to champion Obama as a pragmatic compromiser: "Perhaps it's also an inclination that explains why he made such a concerted effort last year to try to get Republican support on a health care bill." Michiko Kakutani, David Remnick, Barack Obama, Books, The Bridge http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100407093450.aspx 20100406061055 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:07:00 -0400 "...Mr. Reagan praised the Nicaraguan contra rebels, who had a bloody record fighting the Communist Sandinistas, as 'the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers.' In the cold war contest with the Soviet Union, he armed and embraced the Afghan 'freedom fighters' and their Arab allies, some of whom evolved into the terrorists of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. That long-ago radio address sounds naïve in retrospect in another respect, too." Scott Shane, Terrorism, Ronald Reagan, Freedom Fighters, Nicaragua http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100406061055.aspx 20100406055641 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:56:00 -0400 Zernike finds possible weak point in Tea Party movement, spends half a story on it: "Still, while polls suggest that Mr. Reid may lose his bid for re-election, it could be in spite of the Tea Party, not because of it....“Anyone Butt Reid,” as other signs declare, is turning out to be not such an effective strategy. Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Nevada, Harry Reid http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100406055641.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100406094308 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:42:00 -0400 John Harwood and Jeff Zeleny agree that Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas is a "conservative," though her American Conservative Union rating is a safely left-of-center 19 out of a possible 100. John Harwood, Jeff Zeleny, Blanche Lincoln, Labeling Bias, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100406094308.aspx 20100406082341 Clay Waters Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:23:00 -0400 Deborah Solomon once again making conservatives comfortable in her Times Magazine interviews: "You haven't even served in government for five minutes." Deborah Solomon, Rand Paul, Double Standards, Conservatives http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100406082341.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/solomon.jpg 20100405012939 Clay Waters Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:29:00 -0400 Media reporter-columnist David Carr suspects the media is missing Sarah Palin's appeal: "Ms. Palin still gets a session in the media spanking machine every time she does anything, but the disapproval seems to further cement the support of her loyalists. Ms. Palin may or may not be qualified to represent America around the world, but she certainly represents vast swaths of the American public and has a lucrative new career to show for it. If we don't see why, then maybe we deserve the 'lamestream media' label she likes to give us." David Carr, Sarah Palin, Media Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100405012939.aspx 20100405125236 Clay Waters Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:52:00 -0400 Health-care beat reporter David Herszenhorn led off the latest "Political Points" podcast at nytimes.com: "Well there's so many things, Sam. One is clearly there's a racial component. Some members of Congress you know, had epithets hurled at them as protesters marched around the Capitol on the day of the big House vote." David Herszenhorn, Racism, Obama-Care, Podcast http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100405125236.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn2new.jpg 20100402102922 Clay Waters Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:29:00 -0400 Plus: Great Minds Think Alike, and So Do Liberal Times Columnists Frank Rich, Charles Blow, Paul Krugman, Quotes of Note, Obama-Care, Racism, Tea Party Protestors http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100402102922.aspx 20100401030049 Clay Waters Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:00:00 -0400 A would-be domestic terrorist group in Michigan sends the Times running for quotes from the unlabeled left-wingers at Southern Poverty Law Center, who see right-wing extremists just about everywhere it looks. Hutaree, Kirk Johnson, Michigan, Southern Poverty Law Center, Labeling Bias, Mark Potok http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100401030049.aspx 20100401011111 Clay Waters Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:11:00 -0400 A reporter chiding a blogger for misspelling a word manages to misspell the word "misspell." Alex Williams, Gaffes, Typo, Instant Karma, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100401011111.aspx 20100401111117 Clay Waters Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:11:00 -0400 Cardinal William Levada, a top Vatican official, issues a rare plea in response to Times coverage of how the Church handled several cases of alleged sexual abuse by priests, and what Joseph Ratzinger (who became Pope Benedict XVI) knew about the Church's response. Pope Benedict XVI, Sexual Abuse, Scandal, Religion, Catholic Church, Laurie Goodstein, Vatican, Cardinal William Levada, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100401111117.aspx 20100331021047 Clay Waters Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:10:00 -0400 The Times' Denise Grady cribs from a feminist group to accuse health insurance companies of sex discrimination, something that will be cured under Obama-care: "Being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition." Denise Grady, Obama-Care, Labeling Bias, Sexism, Feminism, Health Insurance, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100331021047.aspx 20100331010012 Clay Waters Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:59:00 -0400 "As the privileged son of a baronet and an important figure in the Conservative Party, which has traditionally been allied with wealth and elitism, [George Osborne also had to show that he understood the pain of the common man." Sarah Lyall, England, Conservative Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100331010012.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Sarah_Lyall.jpg 20100331101550 Clay Waters Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:15:00 -0400 The paper's liberal book critic strikes again in a misguided review of Ian McEwan's latest novel "Solar," about a hypocritical science fighting climate change: "This self-deluding scientist will come to embody just about everything that has brought about the climate-change crisis in the first place: greed, heedlessness and a willful refusal to think about consequences or the future." Michiko Kakutani, Ian McEwan, Global Warming, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100331101550.aspx 20100330020220 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:01:00 -0400 Brian Stelter on the cancellation of the Fox action-drama "24," after eight seasons: "The series enlivened the country's political discourse in a way few others have, partly because it brought to life the ticking time-bomb threat that haunted the Cheney faction of the American government in the years after 9/11....But for the same reasons the show found fans in Bush-era Washington, it has also faced severe scrutiny for its depictions of torture." Brian Stelter, Television, "24," Torture, Cancellation http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100330020220.aspx 20100330013037 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:30:00 -0400 No connection, but we'll bring it up anyway: "A law enforcement official said the plot appeared to be unconnected to recent threats against Democratic lawmakers who voted for legislation overhauling the nation's health care system." Charlie Savage, Nick Bunkley, Domestic Terrorism, Hutaree, Double Standards, Southern Poverty Law Center, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100330013037.aspx 20100330121544 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:15:00 -0400 Reporter Kevin Sack makes a racial issue out of Obama-care in a dispatch from Georgia: "At constituent meetings in three rural towns, every white speaker, save one, commended Mr. Barrow for his vote. Each black speaker conveyed a deep sense of betrayal, often after talking about hypertension or diabetes that had gone untreated for lack of insurance." Kevin Sack, Obama-Care, Racism, Georgia, John Barrow, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100330121544.aspx 20100330120106 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:59:00 -0400 Outrage over Obama-care? Blame Sarah, says reporter and Obama-care cheerleader David Herszenhorn: "As lawmakers headed home, they confronted an outpouring of public rancor at public meetings, fueled in part by the false 'death panel' charge made by Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, on her Facebook page." David Herszenhorn, Obama-Care, Double Standards, Sarah Palin, Death Panels http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100330120106.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn2new.jpg 20100330113847 Clay Waters Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:38:00 -0400 After devoting several stories to unsubstantiated allegations of racial epithets by Tea Party protesters last weekend, the Times almost ignored an actual death threat made against a top Republican, Rep. Eric Cantor, that resulted in the first actual arrest since the alleged wave of threats against politicians began. Eric Cantor, Death Threat, Double Standards, Washington Post, Norman Leboon, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100330113847.aspx 20100329042616 Clay Waters Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:26:00 -0400 Domestic terrorists Weather Underground and peaceful anti-tax protesters of the Tea Party movement - just "varying degrees of rage" according to a photo caption accompanying Benedict Carey's story. Benedict Carey, Tea Party, Weathermen, Photos, Terrorism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100329042616.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Ayers_TP.jpg 20100329030202 Clay Waters Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:54:00 -0400 Kate Zernike: "[Tea Party organizer Jeff McQueen] and others do not see any contradictions in their arguments for smaller government even as they argue that it should do more to prevent job loss or cuts to Medicare. After a year of angry debate, emotion outweighs fact." Kate Zernike, Tea Party, Hypocrisy, Government Programs, Protesters http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100329030202.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100329013308 Clay Waters Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:33:00 -0400 Charles Blow on Saturday: "Even the optics must be irritating. A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill's most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It's enough to make a good old boy go crazy." Frank Rich on Sunday: "The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House - topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman - would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play." Frank Rich, Charles Blow, Gaffes, Obama-Care, Racism, John Lewis, Emanuel Cleaver, Spit, Tea Party Protestors http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100329013308.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Charles_Blow.jpg 20100326032208 Clay Waters Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:22:00 -0400 Paul Krugman is struck by "the eliminationist rhetoric" of Republican leaders (a ridiculous charge in itself), but was fine with the idea of Sen. Joe Lieberman being hung in effigy by angry lefties. Paul Krugman, Obama-care, Tea Party Protesters, Ronald Reagan, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100326032208.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100326013302 Clay Waters Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:30:00 -0400 With the help of the Democrats and the New York Times: "...the vandalism threatened to be a public relations disaster for the fledgling Tea Party movement." Tea Party, Michael Cooper, Double Standards, Obama-Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100326013302.aspx 20100326124806 Clay Waters Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:40:00 -0400 Times executives are quite generous with other people's money, as judged by Times editorials and reports urging higher taxes on “the rich,” and unleashing harsh criticism on wealthy chief executives. But when it comes to their own bank accounts...NYT execs Janet Robinson and Arthur Sulzberger Jr. made over $12 million in compensation in 2009, a year when the paper laid off 8% of its staff. Boston Globe, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., CEO Pay, Hypocrisy, Double Standards, Unions, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100326124806.aspx 20100326114425 Clay Waters Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:44:00 -0400 Jeff Zeleny finds scary right-wingers in Utah: "The Tea Party movement and advocacy groups on the right are demanding that candidates hew strictly to their ideological standards, and are moving aggressively to cast out those they deem to have strayed, even if only by participating in the compromises of legislating." Jeff Zeleny, Utah, Robert Bennett, Tea Party, Conservatives, Campaign 2010, Senate http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100326114425.aspx 20100325042819 Clay Waters Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:13:00 -0400 Reporter Mary Williams Walsh doesn't say that, but does report that the United States is now paying “out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, an important threshold it was not expected to cross until at least 2016, according to the Congressional Budget Office.” Yet the Times fiercely opposed Social Security reform when Bush was pushing it in 2005. Mary Williams Walsh, Social Security, George W. Bush, Trust Fund http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100325042819.aspx 20100325013141 Clay Waters Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:30:00 -0400 Jodi Kantor on liberal heroine, bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren: "Hosts and cameramen love her: she has the friendly face of a teacher, the pedigree of a top law professor, the moral force of a preacher and the plain-spoken twang of a Oklahoman." Jodi Kantor, Elizabeth Warren, Bankruptcy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100325013141.aspx 20100325112515 Clay Waters Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:25:00 -0400 Congressional reporter Carl Hulse plays along with the Democrat exploitation of a few extremist protesters for political gain: "Still, the dark and personal tone of the final stages of the health fight could complicate Republican efforts to maintain their attacks on the legislation if they are seen as inciting an undue level of outrage and, conversely, could bolster Democrats if opponents of the measure are seen as breaching the boundaries of civility. The reports of threats, coming after a tense weekend when protesters hurled racial and homophobic slurs at Democrats and spit on one congressman, left many Democrats shaken." Where was the Times when GOP campaign offices were being vandalized in 2004? Carl Hulse, Tea Party Protesters, Racism, Obama Care, Democrats, Congress, Double Standards, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100325112515.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Hulse_2.jpg 20100324022238 Clay Waters Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:17:00 -0400 Editor Marcus Mabry exaggerates for the cameras in the paper's new online feature, a seven-minute daily news show called TimesCast: "Charles, you spent the last year reporting on America's toxic waters, how our drinking water supply is actually not safe." Charles Duhigg, Marcus Mabry, Environment, Water Safety http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100324022238.aspx 20100324014009 Clay Waters Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:40:00 -0400 "The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago." You'll never guess which president is to blame for contributing to that "inequality." David Leonhardt, Ronald Reagan, Obama-care, Income Inequality, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100324014009.aspx 20100324122429 Clay Waters Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:23:00 -0400 The Times sees "bloodsport" on only one side of the looming newspaper war between itself and the Wall Street Journal, which is gearing up a local news section to compete directly with the Times. Richard Perez-Pena, Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, Kate Taylor http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100324122429.aspx 20100323030333 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:03:00 -0400 In an epic (for Twitter) rant, Times columnist Charles Blow masters the art of gentle persuasion: “Sit down foul-mouthed Tea Party crybabies.” Charles Blow, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100323030333.aspx 20100323013456 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:34:00 -0400 London correspondent Sarah Lyall: "In the eyes of many Britons, the Tories' traditional social elitism is tied to another form of elitism - what they perceive as the callous policies of the haves toward the have-nots in the Thatcher era. That was when the Conservative government cut social spending and pursued an anti-Europe, anti-immigration, anti-union agenda....the Tories found themselves once more in the position of grim spoilsports eager to cut government programs." Sarah Lyall, England, Conservative Party, David Cameron, Margaret Thatcher http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100323013456.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Sarah_Lyall.jpg 20100323115334 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:52:00 -0400 Columnist Paul Krugman latest talking points culled from the left-wing blogosphere: "It wasn't just the death panel smear. It was racial hate-mongering, like a piece in Investor's Business Daily declaring that health reform is 'affirmative action on steroids, deciding everything from who becomes a doctor to who gets treatment on the basis of skin color.' It was wild claims about abortion funding. It was the insistence that there is something tyrannical about giving young working Americans the assurance that health care will be available when they need it, an assurance that older Americans have enjoyed ever since Lyndon Johnson - whom Mr. Gingrich considers a failed president - pushed Medicare through over the howls of conservatives." Paul Krugman, Obama-care, Medicare, Racism, Tea Party Protesters, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100323115334.aspx 20100323113401 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:33:00 -0400 For Adam Nagourney, "several Republicans" evidently translates as "David Frum plus a prominent Democrat." Plus: "And in a week when Democrats are celebrating the passage of a historic piece of legislation, Republicans find themselves again being portrayed as the party of no, associated with being on the losing side of an often acrid debate and failing to offer a persuasive alternative agenda." Adam Nagourney, Obama-Care, Carl Hulse, Campaign 2010, David Frum, Randy Neugebauer, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100323113401.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20100322025938 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:52:00 -0400 Pro-Obama-care opinionizing on the front page from reporter Tara Siegel Bernard: "But there is no question that the legislation should benefit consumers in various ways." Tara Siegel Bernard, Obama-Care, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100322025938.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Tara_Bernard.jpg 20100322024343 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:17:00 -0400 Just what is reporter Carl Hulse implying here in his Obama-care story/profile of Democratic congressman and civil rights marcher John Lewis? "Lewis said he was not intimidated as he walked to the Capitol with his colleagues, including Ms. Pelosi. In 1965, Mr. Lewis was bloodied and beaten by the police as he marched for civil rights." Carl Hulse, John Lewis, Tea Party Protesters, Racism, Civil Rights, Obama Care, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100322024343.aspx 20100322014439 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:39:00 -0400 The Times gets biblical on the eve of Sunday's successful House vote in passing Obama-care. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Jeff Zeleny, Carl Hulse, Obama-Care, Natoma Canfield http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100322014439.aspx 20100322122541 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:25:00 -0400 The paper's chief political reporter questions if citizens really care about how Congress passes the most intrusive piece of legislation in a generation: "Does anyone really care if the bill is posted on the Internet 72 hours before the vote? Or if Mr. Obama never fulfilled his pledge to conduct legislative negotiations in public? Or if a bill is passed with a simple majority or the 60 votes required to overcome a filibuster?" Adam Nagourney, Obama Care, Campaign 2010, Deem and Pass http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100322122541.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20100319030812 Clay Waters Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:08:00 -0400 The DNC will release an ad to air in D.C. this weekend based on a profile of Mitch McConnell pitching the Senate minority leader as an Obama-care obstructionist. Mitch McConnell, DNC, Obama-Care, Television Ad, Adam Nagourney, Carl Hulse, Kate Phillips http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100319030812.aspx 20100319011129 Clay Waters Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:11:00 -0400 Times critic Dwight Garner praises left-wing author Tony Judt: "Mr. Judt surveys the political and intellectual landscape in Britain and the United States since the 1980s, the Reagan-Thatcher era, and he worries about an increasing and “uncritical adulation of wealth for its own sake." Dwight Garner, Books, Tony Judy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100319011129.aspx 20100319122933 Clay Waters Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:22:00 -0400 David Herszenhorn's shallow analysis of the CBO cost estimates for Obama-care framed the outcome as a political triumph for Obama. By contrast, the Washington Post actually drilled into the numbers and questioned the validity of the CBO's methods. David Herszenhorn, Obama Care, Slaughter, CBO http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100319122933.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/davidherszenhorn.jpg 20100318012511 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:25:00 -0400 The Hill reports: "In a memo to a broad group of Democratic lawmakers, communications staff and party strategists obtained by The Hill, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Communications Director Brad Woodhouse advised using a New York Times report Wednesday on the Senate GOP leader as exhibit A against Republicans." Mitch McConnell, DNC, Obama-Care, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100318012511.aspx 20100318125513 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:49:00 -0400 Yeah! Retired Republican Senator Alan Simpson set "to challenge the party's antitax orthodoxy" according to reporter Jackie Calmes. Jackie Calmes, Debt, Alan Simpson, Conservatives, Taxes, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100318125513.aspx 20100318112236 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:22:00 -0400 Reporter David Herszenhorn's eternal (and so-far misguided) optimism on the prospects for Obama-care once again burns bright in Thursday's lead story on health-care reform push, “Showdown Near Health Overhaul Gains Two Votes." The lead: "House Democrats are inching toward the majority they need to pass health care legislation, giving them added confidence as they work out the last details of the bill and gird for a showdown as soon as this weekend." David Herszenhorn, Robert Pear, Obama Care, Slaughter, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care, CBO, Dennis Kucinich http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100318112236.aspx 20100318101742 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:12:00 -0400 Nicholas Kristof unwittingly reveals the secret to immortality in a column pushing for greater access to health care. Nicholas Kristof, Gaffes, Health Insurance, Mortality, Obama-Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100318101742.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/NicholasKristof.jpg 20100317031402 Tim Graham Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:06:00 -0400 Former Newsweek Editor Charles Kaiser gushed on Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger: "Practically overnight, he transformed what had been a relentlessly homophobic place into one of the most gay-friendly institutions in the world." Gay Marriage, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., David Boies, Ted Olson http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100317031402.aspx 20100317013228 Clay Waters Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:24:00 -0400 Voter cynicism? Blame that obstructionist Republican leader Mitch McConnell: "In the process, Mr. McConnell, 68, a Kentuckian more at home plotting tactics in the cloakroom than writing legislation in a committee room or exhorting crowds on the campaign trail, has come to embody a kind of oppositional politics that critics say has left voters cynical about Washington, the Senate all but dysfunctional and the Republican Party without a positive agenda or message." Carl Hulse, Adam Nagourney, Mitch McConnell, Obama-Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100317013228.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20100317125239 Clay Waters Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:45:00 -0400 Harvard's "a different place" without its former president, Lawrence Summers, who left under fire for daring to make an academic statement about women's aptitude for science and math during an academic conference. As if the Ivy League campus was overrun with right-wing sexists before he left... Tamar Lewin, Lawrence Summers, Harvard, Women, Math, Feminism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100317125239.aspx 20100317120004 Clay Waters Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:57:00 -0400 David Leonhardt, who supported Obama's pledge to cut taxes for those making under $250,000 in the name of fighting "inequality," today admits your taxes will have to go up "however much you make." David Leonhardt, Stimulus, Taxes, Barack Obama, Deficit, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100317120004.aspx 20100316033824 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:32:00 -0400 While the Times contents itself with a blog post Tuesday portraying Pelosi's proposal as benign, The Washington Post takes the story seriously, putting it on the front page under a blunt headline: "Pelosi may try to pass health bill without vote." David Herszenhorn, Obama Care, Slaughter, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care, Washington Post http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100316033824.aspx 20100316015535 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:49:00 -0400 Investigative reporter David Barstow's paranoid February 16 front-page piece on an Idaho chapter of the Tea Party movement won a left-wing foundation's monthly journalism award. David Barstow, Tea Party, Idaho, Sydney Hillman, Journalism, Awards, Unions, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100316015535.aspx 20100316121805 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:07:00 -0400 In one of many ideologically loaded sentences in his story from Warsaw, reporter Dan Bilefsky claimed the movie “Mall Girls" has provoked “a national debate about moral decadence in this conservative, predominantly Catholic country, 20 years after the fall of Communism.” Were things better under the repressive Soviet-installed regime? Bilefsky doesn't say. Dan Bilefsky, Poland, Communism, Movies, Catholic Church http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100316121805.aspx 20100316115913 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:59:00 -0400 For the second day in a row, the Times highlighted a health-care anecdote that Obama wanted highlighted - the sad story of Ohio resident Natoma Canfield, Obama's poster woman for victims of rising health insurance premiums and the emotional focal point of the president's desperation Ohio tour to push his health-care “reform” plan. Barack Obama, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, David Herszenhorn, Natoma Canfield, Ohio, Health Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100316115913.aspx 20100315023620 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:32:00 -0400 Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt devotes a rare column to labeling bias suggesting conservatives have legitimate complaints with the paper's "conservative" (and "neoconservative") labeling habits. Clark Hoyt, Labeling Bias, Conservatives, John Broder, Al Franken http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100315023620.aspx 20100315013556 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:40:00 -0400 Some see religious iconography in a puzzling photo of Obama on the front of the Times Week in Review. Barack Obama, Photo, Peter Baker, Religion, Cross, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100315013556.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Obama_Cross_2.jpg 20100315113332 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:25:00 -0400 After passionate defending Obama during the campaign against GOP charges that he would raise taxes, Times reporters are now almost begging him to do so in the name of debt-reduction. Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Debt, Taxes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100315113332.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes2.jpg 20100315105605 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:50:00 -0400 From the cover of the Times Sunday Book Review: "Of all the crimes that sullied the record of the United States military in Iraq - the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the killings of 24 Iraqi men, women and children by Marines in November 2005 in Haditha - the murder of an entire Iraqi family in the village of Yusufiya may rank as the most chilling." Yet seven of the eight marines charges have either been acquitted or had their cases dismissed, details that have been almost ignored by the Times. Haditha, Paul von Zielbauer, Bias by Omission, Joshua Hammer, Books http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100315105605.aspx 20100315102542 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:25:00 -0400 Columnist Thomas Friedman just can't stop praising an authoritarian regime: "I've been saying for awhile Tom, there's only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, the Chinese form of government, and that's one-party democracy. You know, in China, if the leadership can get around to an enlightened decision it can order it from the top down, OK. Here, when you have one-party democracy, one party ruling, basically the other party just basically saying no, every solution is sub-optimal." Thomas Friedman, China, Communism, Obama-Care, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100315102542.aspx 20100312023436 Clay Waters Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:34:00 -0400 While Glenn Beck "managed to insult just about every mainline" Christian church in the country with controversial remarks about social justice, left-wing host Keith Olbermann makes Nazi comparisons with impunity. Religion, Laurie Goodstein, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100312023436.aspx 20100312015344 Clay Waters Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:53:00 -0400 Michael Moore fan and Times movie critic A.O. Scott finds a left-wing fantasist version of the Iraq War featuring murderous U.S. soldiers and top brass an impressive sense of scruples. They have clearly studied journalistic accounts of the early days of the war, citing Rajiv Chandrasekaran's vivid “Imperial Life in the Emerald City” as a particular inspiration, and while the picture they paint of infighting among the Americans and growing factionalism among the Iraqis may not be literally accurate in every particular, it has the rough authority of novelistic truth. Movies, A.O. Scott, Green Zone, Iraq War, Anti-Americanism, Matt Damon, Kyle Smith http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100312015344.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Green_Zone.jpeg 20100312124757 Clay Waters Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:46:00 -0400 The Massa story moves forward, as reports surfaced that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office had been alerted to Massa's behavior with young male staffers back in October and the GOP moved to investigate. But the Washington Post's front-page story was almost ignored in the Times print edition and downgraded in nytimes.com coverage. Carl Hulse, Eric Massa, Mark Foley, Double Standards, Washington Post, Scandals http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100312124757.aspx 20100312100626 Clay Waters Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:02:00 -0400 Howell Raines accuses Fox News of "a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration" that's "without precedent in our modern political history" and accuses the network of having "overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II." Howell Raines, Fox News, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100312100626.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/HowellRaines.jpg 20100311022840 Clay Waters Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:28:00 -0400 A front-page story by Sam Dillon pushes uniform standards for pubilc schools nationwide, and buries the ideological edge of the issue: Conservative opposition. Sam Dillon, Education, National Standards, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100311022840.aspx 20100311114911 Clay Waters Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:49:00 -0400 Austin-based reporter James McKinley Jr. constantly declaims about "conservatives" who want to soften the liberal edge of school textbooks, but ignores the presence of the far-left Hispanic nationalist group MEChA featured in a photo. James McKinley Texas, Education, Labeling Bias, MECha, Conservatives, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100311114911.aspx 20100310014630 Clay Waters Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:32:00 -0400 The Times stands up for Obama administration lawyers who had previously defended Al Qaeda detainees at Guantanamo, fiercely attacking a conservative group for making their service an issue. Yet the Times did not hesitate to attack Bush administration lawyers accused of greenlighting the "torture" of Al Qaeda terrorists. John Schwartz, Keep America Safe, Liz Cheney, Terrorism, Justice Department, Al Qaeda, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100310014630.aspx 20100310125429 Clay Waters Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:46:00 -0400 According to reporter Helene Cooper, Justice Samuel Alito "escalated" State of the Union confrontation with Obama in January, "breaking with decorum" by shaking his head and mouthing, "No, it's not true." Obama himself was not criticized by Cooper for making the false charge against a Supreme Court ruling in the first place. Helene Cooper, Supreme Court, Campaign Finance, Barack Obama, Samuel Alito http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100310125429.aspx 20100310104218 Clay Waters Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:37:00 -0400 Plus: Times gushes over pro-Obama "Coffee Party" after dismissing anti-tax Tea Party rallies as full of "anger" and "Astroturf." Frank Rich, Kate Zernike, Howell Raines, Tea Party, Coffee Party, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100310104218.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100309014326 Clay Waters Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:43:00 -0400 A fired-up Obama goes after health insurance companies, and the Times seems to like what it hears: "In a high-octane appearance that harked back to his 'yes we can' campaign days, Mr. Obama jettisoned the professorial demeanor that has cloaked many of his public pronouncements on the issue, instead making an emotional pitch for public support as he tries to push the legislation through a final series of votes in Congress in the next several weeks." Helene Cooper, David Herszenhorn, Barack Obama, Health Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100309014326.aspx 20100309125439 Clay Waters Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:54:00 -0400 Rich warns Obama that the clock is running out on his presidency: "This time Obama doesn't have a year to arrive at his finest hour. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the clock runs out on Nov. 2." Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Bob Herbert, Barack Obama, Health Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100309125439.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/FrankRich.jpg 20100309102124 Clay Waters Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:21:00 -0400 Stephanie Clifford gave credit to The National Enquirer linking former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards to his mistress Rielle Hunter - but lets the media (and the Times) off the hook: "Today, some news organizations say they couldn't back up the allegations, and others say the reports seemed untrustworthy, coming from a tabloid. The other reason was political. By late January 2008, Mr. Edwards had ended his presidential bid." Yet Edwards was on an NYT list of possible VP nominees in July 2008. John Edwards, Stephanie Clifford, National Enquirer, Rielle Hunter, Double Standards, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100309102124.aspx 20100309085615 Clay Waters Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:51:00 -0400 But just look at all the events that weren't gate-crashed! "[Desiree] Rogers, of course, is the high-profile Obama confidante who recently announced that she would step down as social secretary three months after an uninvited couple crashed the Obamas' first state dinner, igniting a furor that overshadowed her work on more than 300 other events." Jackie Calmes, Desiree Rogers, Julianna Smoot http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100309085615.aspx 20100308023919 Clay Waters Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:31:00 -0400 Even Barack Obama agrees with a Rhode Island school board that fired all its teachers, but the Times fires a warning shot from the left: "Officials at the two unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, were so angry in the hours after Mr. Obama first endorsed the firings that an irreconcilable break with the administration seemed possible, perhaps bruising Democrats' electoral chances in November." Steven Greenhouse, Sam Dillon, Education, Rhode Island, Teachers Unions, Protests, Barack Obama, Unions http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100308023919.aspx 20100308122656 Clay Waters Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:20:00 -0400 "Climate change" alarmism in a Home & Garden section story by Kate Murphy: "Extreme weather possibly linked to climate change, as well as construction on less stable ground, have provoked unprecedented foundation failures in houses nationwide." Kate Murphy, Global Warming, Home and Garden, Gaffes, Soil, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100308122656.aspx 20100308121826 Clay Waters Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:07:00 -0400 Reporter Kate Zernike surveys the bleak electoral landscape for Democrats, finds some dubious reasons for hope, and includes this self-serving liberal lament: "The left has never been as good as the right when it comes to messaging." Kate Zernike, Coffee Party, Tea Party, Campaign 2010, Democrats http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100308121826.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100305034431 Clay Waters Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:31:00 -0400 In a discussion prompted by Karl Roves new book, political podcast host Sam Roberts hews to liberal talking points on Bush and weapons of mass destruction, but is refuted by reporter Peter Baker (it wasn't just the Bush administration who thought Saddam had WMD). Sam Roberts, Peter Baker, Karl Rove, Weapons of Mass Destruction, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100305034431.aspx 20100305010432 Clay Waters Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:55:00 -0400 Reporter John Broder, who previously called climate change skeptics "deniers" and "relatively uninformed," balances this out a little bit with a story on climate scientists realizing they have a problem both with public relations and their actual science: "The e-mail episode, dubbed 'climategate' by critics, revealed arrogance and what one top climate researcher called 'tribalism' among some scientists. The correspondence appears to show efforts to limit publication of contrary opinion and to evade Freedom of Information Act requests. The content of the messages opened some well-known scientists to charges of concealing temperature data from rival researchers and manipulating results to conform to precooked conclusions." John Broder, Global Warming, Phil Jones http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100305010432.aspx 20100305123013 Clay Waters Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:24:00 -0400 In a refreshing nod to political balance, reporter Jeff Zeleny focuses on "the ethical woes facing Democrats" as they brace for the November 2010 elections. Jeff Zeleny, Campaign 2010, Democrats, Ethics http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100305123013.aspx 20100304123821 Clay Waters Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:31:00 -0400 Reporter Ian Urbina interviewed three happy gay couples, but no one opposed to gay marriage in the District of Columbia. Ian Urbina, Gay Marriage, Washington http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100304123821.aspx 20100303122925 Clay Waters Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:12:00 -0400 Congressional reporter Carl Hulse, always willing to give the GOP a fair shake: Fight over spending "was allowing Democrats and editorial writers around the country to portray them as heartless curmudgeons, denying jobless aid to struggling Americans while Mr. Bunning complained that late-night debate was preventing him from watching a college basketball game." Carl Hulse, Jim Bunning, Congress, PAYGO, Double Standards, Spending, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100303122925.aspx 20100303103209 Clay Waters Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:22:00 -0400 Columnist Frank Rich leaves out Austin suicide pilot Joe Stack's anti-Bush, pro-Communist rants to paint him as a Tea Party sympathizer: "Stack was a lone madman, and it would be both glib and inaccurate to call him a card-carrying Tea Partier or a 'Tea Party terrorist.' But he did leave behind a manifesto whose frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage overlaps with some of those marching under the Tea Party banner." Frank Rich, Joe Stack, Tea Party Protesters http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100303103209.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/FrankRich.jpg 20100303082633 Clay Waters Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:07:00 -0400 After ignoring the initial stirrings of the fast-growing Tea Party movement for several weeks, the Times quickly jumps on the Coffee Party bandwagon, an alternative that just happens to be filled with Obama supporters. As opposed to the hostile reception the Tea Party movement received in the Times, reporter Kate Zernike finds no anger, "Astroturfing," or even liberals at the Coffee Party. Kate Zernike, Coffee Party, Tea Party, Annabel Park, Double Standards, Astroturfing, Jason Mattera, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100303082633.aspx 20100302080940 Tim Graham Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:43:00 -0400 The Times gave front-page space to the black "abortion foes" and their "conspiracy theories" on a higher black abortion rate, but reporter Shaila Dewan deployed "scholars" (on the Planned Parenthood board!) to rebut their arguments. Abortion, Georgia Right to Life, Shaila Dewan http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100302080940.aspx 20100301014043 Tim Graham Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:15:00 -0400 Media reporter ends a piece with attacking Eric Cantor's quote from a different Times story - a little out of its balanced context. David Carr, Mark Leibovich, John Boehner http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100301014043.aspx 20100227085737 Clay Waters Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:14:00 -0400 Reporter David Herszenhorn hailed the health summit as Obama's "grand gesture of bipartisanship," opined that Obama's massive remaking of U.S. health care was "a largely middle-of-the-road proposal," and suggested a more radical scheme would have attracted more support. David Herszenhorn, Health Care, Barack Obama, Summit, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Robert Pear, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100227085737.aspx 20100226051454 Tim Graham Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:07:00 -0400 On CNN, aggressively "green" Friedman denounced Sen. James Inhofe as "flat-out stupid" and insisted he's a "Dick Cheney guy" when it comes to pre-empting the threat of global warming. Thomas Friedman, James Hansen, CNN http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100226051454.aspx 20100225054131 Tim Graham Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:34:00 -0400 Reporter John Broder buttered up the far-left 9/11-truther without a liberal label, for either him or the NAACP, which declared him a treasure. Van Jones, NAACP, John Broder http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100225054131.aspx 20100224010856 Clay Waters Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:59:00 -0400 Why won't Washington heed Obama's reasoning? Sheryl Gay Stolberg ponders: "Ever since his days as a young community organizer in Chicago, Mr. Obama has held fast to the belief that by listening carefully and appealing to reason he can bring people together to get results, an approach that in Washington has often come up short." Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Barack Obama, Health Care, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100224010856.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Stolberg2.jpg 20100224111704 Clay Waters Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:07:00 -0400 Columnist Roger Cohen: "The public option, not dead, would amount to recognition of shared interest in each other's health and of the need to use America's energies and resources better. It would involve 300 million people linking arms. Or we can turn away from each other and, like Narcissus, perish in the contemplation of our own reflections." Roger Cohen, Health Care, Gaffes, Columnist, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100224111704.aspx http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/uploads/CohenRoger-NYT.jpg 20100223040016 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:52:00 -0400 Reporter Jackie Calmes is still adamant on the success of Obama's "stimulus" package: "The argument of whether or not the stimulus worked is a mostly political one. I mean, you can hardly find an economist who will tell you that A, it wasn't needed, and B, that it hasn't worked." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, Stimulus, Econmy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100223040016.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes2.jpg 20100223122049 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:07:00 -0400 Movie critic John Anderson embraces left-wing environmental alarmism, and considers the new zombie movie "The Crazies" "socially progressive cinema. Perhaps even to the public good." John Anderson, Movies, The Crazies, Environmentalism, The Crazies, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100223122049.aspx 20100223113728 Clay Waters Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:31:00 -0400 Reporter Kirk Johnson finds "vitriol among Western conservatives" over a Department of Interior proposal to designate huge blocks of land in Western states as national monuments. Did liberals never show "vitriol" over Bush proposals? Kirk Johnson, National Monuments, Labeling Bias, Utah http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100223113728.aspx 20100222021250 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:55:00 -0400 Young conservative author Jason Mattera responds to reporter Kate Zernike's smear of his CPAC speech as an appeal to "racial stereotypes." Kate Zernike, CPAC, Jason Mattera, Racism, Chris Rock, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100222021250.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/KateZernike.jpg 20100222112543 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:15:00 -0400 Columnist Gail Collins continued to express anxiety over CPAC speakers, even likening the rhetoric of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to Austin suicide pilot Joe Stack: "The overall strangeness of this thought aside, consider the timing. An angry man had just smashed his airplane into an I.R.S. office in Austin, Tex., killing one federal employee, injuring others and breaking quite a few windows. Does this seem like the very best time to be encouraging people to assault government property? Pawlenty's defenders will undoubtedly say that he did not want his listeners to literally grab a golf club and hit something. But it is my experience that many Americans do not totally understand the concept of a metaphor." Gail Collins, CPAC, Columnists, Tim Pawlenty, Joe Stack, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100222112543.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/GailCollins.jpg 20100222104717 Clay Waters Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:38:00 -0400 Soon to be national editor Richard Berke: "In retrospect, it is tempting to see the Clinton impeachment as having ushered in the feral reality of politics today: the birthers, the Tea Party movement, a Congress where old-fashioned legislative victory has given way to the insatiable appetite for annihilation." Richard Berke, Tea Party, Labeling Bias, Book Review, Ken Gormley http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100222104717.aspx 20100219041336 Clay Waters Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:09:00 -0400 Kate Zernike's accusations of racial stereotyping by Jason Mattera, a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference don't make it into the print edition of the Times. CPAC, Adam Nagourney, Kate Zernike, Racism, Jason Mattera http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100219041336.aspx 20100219033508 Jeff Poor Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:24:00 -0400 Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart goes ballistic over phony racial allegations by Times reporter Kate Zernike against conservative author and CPAC speaker Jason Mattera. Kate Zernike, CPAC, Andrew Breitbart, Jason Mattera, Racism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100219033508.aspx 20100219032323 Clay Waters Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:18:00 -0400 Hopeful on health care? Reporter David Kirkpatrick on the Times' latest "Political Points" podcast: "And if they capture Osama bin Laden we might actually get a health-care bill this year." Peter Baker, Jackie Calmes, David Kirkpatrick, Podcast, Political Points, Health Care, Terrorism, Labeling Bias, Alan Simpson, Evan Bayh http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100219032323.aspx 20100219012228 Clay Waters Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:16:00 -0400 Former liberal reporter turned NYT blogger Timothy Egan blogs praise on Canada's health care system and smears U.S. health insurers: "They have universal health care, and while the system prompts much grumbling, it works for most people - without the death panel quality of America's heartless private insurers." Timothy Egan, Canada, Health Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100219012228.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/TimothyEgan.jpg 20100218034842 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:36:00 -0400 Don't mimic Chris Rock at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or Kate Zernike will suggest you're using racial stereotypes. Kate Zernike, CPAC, Jason Mattera, Racism, Chris Rock, Conservatives, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100218034842.aspx 20100218025731 Scott Whitlock Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:51:00 -0400 Columnist Gail Collins appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe to worry about "scary," fringe conservatives who will be appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in D.C. Gail Collins, CPAC, Columnists http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100218025731.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2010-02-18-MSNBC-MJ-Collins.JPG 20100218012638 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:29:00 -0400 The Times takes on Obama from the left on his commitment to building new nuclear power plants, quoting every environmentalist in Washington, but without explaining the sound science (and environmentalism) behind the move: Lower pollution and no dreaded greenhouse gases. John Broder, Nuclear Power, Labeling Bias, Barack Obama, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100218012638.aspx 20100218120357 Clay Waters Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:49:00 -0400 David Leonhardt, the Times conscience on economics issues, celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Obama “stimulus” while attacking "hard-core skeptics" and pushing for yet another “stimulus." The column instantly became a gloatworthy morale-booster to sympathetic left-wing web sites and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. But is Leonhardt bashing straw men? David Leonhardt, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Economy http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100218120357.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/David_Leonhardt.jpeg 20100217023417 Clay Waters Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:53:00 -0400 Notorious climate scientist Phil Jones confessed that world temperatures could well have been warmer in the past than they are today, and also admitted there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995. The Times skips that, and instead features leading green columnist Thomas Friedman renaming global warming "global weirding," which pretty much brings any odd weather event under the rubric of "climate change." Global Warming, Phil Jones, Climate Gate, Bias by Omission, Thomas Friedman, Gaffes, Snowstorms, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100217023417.aspx 20100217125805 Clay Waters Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:51:00 -0400 You don't say: "G.O.P. Dream of Gaining Senate Control Faces Significant Hurdles," reads Adam Nagourney's latest political memo. But just two months ago no one was even talking about such a thing. Why is the burden now on the Republicans to make the previously impossible happen Adam Nagourney, Republicans, Campaign 2010, Senate http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100217125805.aspx 20100217112432 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:27:00 -0400 The Times fiercely attacked Republicans during the 2008 campaign for daring to suggest Obama might raise taxes on people making under $250,000 a year. Today, reporter Jackie Calmes encourages him to do so in the paper's lead story: "The same economists also say a significant deficit-reduction plan is not possible unless Mr. Obama breaks his campaign promise not to raise taxes for households making less than $250,000." Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Debt, Budget, Polls, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100217112432.aspx 20100216035937 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:51:00 -0400 Tea Party convention-goers “have a lot of anger, they don't have a lot of answers,” according to reporter Kate Zernike on a nytimes.com podcast. Tea Party Convention, Nashville, Sam Roberts, Kate Zernike. Podcast http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100216035937.aspx 20100216030200 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:50:00 -0400 Reporter Adam Nagourney nodded along to the Democratic-friendly idea that "centrist" Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh's retirement was about "unyielding partisanship" in Congress, not the grim prospects for the party in 2010. Evan Bayh, Adam Nagourney, Labeling Bias, Campaign 2010, Indiana, Democrats, Congress http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100216030200.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20100216015322 Tim Graham Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:47:00 -0400 It may not be surprising for the Times to investigate corporate fat cats piling their cash on a congressional charity. But it's surprising when it's the Congressional Black Caucus. http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100216015322.aspx 20100216011538 Clay Waters Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:27:00 -0400 Investigative reporter David Barstow goes to Idaho to understand the paranoia of the Tea Party movement, and brings up past anti-government and racist extremists in a 4,500-word front-page takeout. Too bad the Times never tried to probe the paranoid psyche of Bush-hating left-wing groups in similar fashion. David Barstow, Tea Party, Idaho, Labeling Bias, Bias by Omission, Barack Obama, Racism, Conservatives, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100216011538.aspx 20100215030254 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:57:00 -0400 In addition some copy editor at the Times has a puritanical relationship with snacks: “To help dam the river of sugared drinks that Americans pour into ever-fatter bodies each year, some suggest a soda tax and warning labels.” Mark Bittman, Food, Health, Obesity, Soda Tax, Tobacco, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100215030254.aspx 20100215014245 Clay Waters Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:32:00 -0400 Obama hearts the "low-key" "genial," "self-deprecating," and of course "pragmatic" Attorney General Eric Holder, in a long profile of Holder that fails to mention his Justice Department's refusal to prosecute a voter-intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party. Jodi Kantor, Charlie Savage, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Bias by Omission, New Black Panther Party http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100215014245.aspx 20100215012042 Clay Waters Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:12:00 -0400 Reporter James McKinley Jr. wonders if the Republican candidates for Texas governor can get any more right wing than they already are: "Some days it is hard to be a neophyte far-right candidate in a governor's race, even in Texas, where Republicans vying for the party's nomination try to outdo one another to prove their conservative credentials." James McKinley Jr., Debra Medina, Texas, Governor's Race, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100215012042.aspx 20100212022817 Clay Waters Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:08:00 -0400 Give the Times points for nerve: Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney managed to take the paper's new poll, full of bad news for President Obama and Democrats, and twist its findings to suggest Republicans were in trouble: “Obama Has Edge Over G.O.P. With Public.” Nagourney glossed over several interesting tidbits which reflected badly on the prospects of Obama and the Democrats, including his falling favorability rating and plummeting prospects for health care, but highlighted the public's support for his gays in the military stand, not even an issue until two weeks ago. Adam Nagourney, Polls, Double Standards, Barack Obama, Republicans, Health Care, Obama Care, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100212022817.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Nagourney2.jpg 20100211025011 Clay Waters Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:43:00 -0400 Reporter John Broder talks about his front-page climate change story in a nytimes.com podcast: "Well, naturally the skeptics and those who are, you know, relatively uninformed about the climate debate will look out the window and see two or three foot of snow and more coming down, and ask themselves, 'What's with all the global warming?'" Later he used the loaded term "deniers." John Broder, Global Warming, Snowstorms, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100211025011.aspx 20100211012304 Clay Waters Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:14:00 -0400 Liberal columnist Paul Krugman reads Obama's interview with Business Week involving big bonuses for Wall Street CEOs and asks, "how is it possible, at this late date, for Obama to be this clueless?" Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, Wall Street, Bankers, Bonuses, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100211012304.aspx 20100211122734 Clay Waters Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:08:00 -0400 Ralph Fertig runs a left-wing pressure group, but to Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak he's just a "civil rights lawyer," and his wish to provide legal support to a Kurdish group in Turkey with terror links is portrayed as a free speech issue. The Times lets us know what to think in a text box: "Does a tool for dealing with the nation's enemies violate its values?" Adam Liptak, Ralph Fertig, Labeling Bias, Turkey, Supreme Court, Terrorism, Communism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100211122734.aspx 20100211114419 Clay Waters Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:31:00 -0400 In 1996, reporter Jason DeParle accused Clinton of signing a welfare reform bill that "begrudges poor infants their Pampers" and predicted an epidemic of child abuse, abortion, prostitution and beggary. These days, he's taking to the Times to do victory laps about the increasing social acceptability of food stamps. Jason DeParle, Food Stamps, Welfare Reform, Gaffes, Robert Gebeloff, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100211114419.aspx 20100210034042 Clay Waters Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:35:00 -0400 A Times editorial hypocritically accuses the GOP of fear-mongering the terror threat. What exactly does the Times think it's been saying about climate change for the last several years? War on Terror, Editorial, Climate Change, Double Standards, Fearmongering http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100210034042.aspx 20100210012109 Clay Waters Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:02:00 -0400 Elisabeth Rosenthal skips some highlights of the latest global warming controversy, involving bogus scientific claims on disappearing Himalayan glaciers. Rosenthal defends IPCC chairman Dr. Rajendra Pauchari, blandly stating: "The general consensus among mainstream scientists is that the errors are in any case minor and do not undermine the report's conclusions." Elisabeth Rosenthal, Global Warming, IPCC, Himalayas, Glaciers, Rajendra Pauchari, Environment http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100210012109.aspx 20100210114747 Clay Waters Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:32:00 -0400 John McCain, Times friend turned foe, is now a friend again, in the hope of keeping a "far right" candidate out of the U.S. Senate. Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer: "Yet Mr. McCain now finds himself jammed, moving starkly - and often awkwardly - to the right, apparently in an effort to gain favor among the same voters whom Mr. Hayworth, a consistent voice for the far right, could pull toward him like taffy come summer." Jennifer Steinhauer, John McCain, J.D. Hayworth, Arizona http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100210114747.aspx 20100209025157 Clay Waters Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:30:00 -0400 Reporter Kate Zernike mocks Palin's "seventh-grade style" crib notes at the Nashville "tea party" convention: Ask conservatives why they love Sarah Palin so and they will often say it is because she is so 'authentic.' So will her crib sheet make her less so in their eyes?" Sarah Palin, Kate Zernike, Tea Party Convention, Nashville http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100209025157.aspx 20100209123831 Clay Waters Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:22:00 -0400 David Stout's obituary for old-line Democratic Rep. John Murtha omitted the congressman's smear of Marines in Iraq, who he accused of killing Iraqi civilians "in cold blood." John Murtha, David Stout, Bias by Omission, Haditha, Marines, Obituary, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100209123831.aspx 20100208034943 Clay Waters Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:44:00 -0400 Kate Zernike's Sunday front-page story on a Tea Party convention in Nashville lets participants have their say without rebuttal. Kate Zernike, Tea Parties, Media Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100208034943.aspx 20100208025826 Clay Waters Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:49:00 -0400 Mark Leibovich tones down the mocking attitude in his Saturday profile of Sarah Palin, who is "quietly assembling the infrastructure of an expanding political operation." Mark Leibovich, Sarah Palin, Campaign 2012 http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100208025826.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Leibovich.jpg 20100205041835 Tim Graham Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:14:00 -0400 Columnist Paul Krugman played media critic, asserting the media is panicking the public with an empty threat - deficits are like vanishing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Paul Krugman, deficit, Iraq http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100205041835.aspx 20100205085031 Tim Graham Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:33:00 -0400 The Times utterly ignored tens of thousands gathered for the March for Life in January, but published a photo of about ten protesters of the National Prayer Breakfast. National Prayer Breakfast, Laurie Goodstein, Wayne Besen http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100205085031.aspx 20100202045455 Clay Waters Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:34:00 -0400 The Times took six days for one of its own reporters to acknowledge the ACORN scandal in print. But when ACORN "pimp" and hidden-camera conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe was arrested, the Times pounced on the story and stayed on it five days running including a story on the Sunday front page complete with mug shots. ACORN, James O'Keefe, Double Standards, Arrest, Sen. Mary Landrieu, Campbell Robertson, Liz Robbins, Jim Rutenberg http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100202045455.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Mug_shots.jpg 20100202125353 Clay Waters Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:46:00 -0400 Former Executive Editor Howell Raines returns to the pages of the Times, but his op-ed on the origin of the civil rights movement is laced with nasty cracks at conservatives and Fox News: "Before 1960, the one word was 'segregation.' You could stamp it on the most hapless of candidates and win an election. After 1980, the one word became 'conservative,' as a label for the set of Bible Belt social values that hardened into its present calcified state with the election of Ronald Reagan." Howell Raines, Civil Rights, Greensboro, Ronald Reagan, Conservatism, Fox News, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100202125353.aspx 20100201044947 Clay Waters Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:41:00 -0400 Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney spreads Republican pessimism on Sunday's front page: "At a moment of what appears to be great if unexpected opportunity, the Republican Party continues to struggle with disputes over ideology and tactics, as well as what party leaders say is an absence of strong figures to lead it back to power, from the party chairman to prospective presidential candidates." Adam Nagourney, Campaign 2010, Republicans, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100201044947.aspx 20100201032424 Clay Waters Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:19:00 -0400 Never mind that enormous health-care plan and "stimulus" spending, Obama's really a complex pragmatist who may be just too nuanced for today's politics: "On this much, President Obama's friends and foes could agree: He eludes simple labels. Yes, he's a liberal, except when he's not." Richard Stevenson, Barack Obama, Labeling Bias, Pragmatism, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100201032424.aspx 20100201020727 Clay Waters Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:02:00 -0400 No wonder it's so hard to cut federal spending: A limited "spending freeze" of $250 billion over three years, out of a 2001 budget of $3.8 trillion, is twice trotted out as a radical "austerity" measure. Jackie Calmes, Robert Pear, Elisabeth Bumiller, Budget, Austerity, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100201020727.aspx 20100201011515 Tim Graham Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:08:00 -0400 Checking the weekend receipts for Mel Gibson's dark thriller, "Edge of Darkness," arts writer Brooks Barnes reminded readers of the actor's "anti-Semitic outburst" and pondered: "Had moviegoers forgotten his rant and the subsequent tabloid brush fire? Many people in the movie business still harbor raw feelings about it." So, evidently, do "many people" at the Times. Mel Gibson, Movies, Anti-Semitism, Double Standards, Edge of Darkness http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100201011515.aspx 20100201010619 Clay Waters Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:59:00 -0400 While the Times routinely rebukes Republicans for allegedly questioning the patriotism of Democrats, columnist Frank Rich is free to claim that Republican "John McCain epitomizes the unpatriotic opposition." Frank Rich, Barack Obama, State of the Union, Patriotism, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100201010619.aspx 20100129023544 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:30:00 -0400 Plus: Read the desperate, denialist Democrat spin by Times columnists and reporters upon Scott Brown's shocking Mass. Victory, and learn why “Rush is a particularly vile human being.” Abby Goodnough, Scott Brown, Massachusetts, Charles Blow, Rush Limbaugh, Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100129023544.aspx 20100129015748 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:52:00 -0400 Columnist Charles Blow has a change of heart after the Mass. Senate election. Charles Blow, Campaign 2010, Conservatives, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Double Standards, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100129015748.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Charles_Blow.jpg 20100129010239 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:52:00 -0400 Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak finds both Obama and the Justice Sam Alito guilty of a "breach of decorum," Obama for attacking the Supreme Court's decision in his State of the Union address, Alito for mouthing two words to himself. Adam Liptak, Supreme Court, Campaign Finance, State of the Union, Samuel Alito, Joe Wilson http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100129010239.aspx 20100129123053 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:25:00 -0400 Obama administration: Not stupid (or evil) like Bush, but pretending to be. Paul Krugman, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100129123053.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100129091321 Clay Waters Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:08:00 -0400 A subscription to the Business and Media Institute's newsletter The Balance Sheet will deliver informed analysis of anti-free market reporting to your inbox every week. It's a must if you want to stay on top of what liberal journalists are reporting (or not reporting) about American business and the free enterprise system. Business and Media Institute http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100129091321.aspx 20100128025429 Clay Waters Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:46:00 -0400 But his colleagues David Kirkpatrick and Linda Greenhouse nabbed Obama on his SOTU misstatement that: "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations - to spend without limit in our elections." Carl Hulse, David Kirkpatrick, Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court, Barack Obama, Justice Samuel Alito, Campaign Finance, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100128025429.aspx 20100128010623 Clay Waters Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:58:00 -0400 Reporter Jason DeParle plumps another exaggerated "hunger in America story" in Wednesday's paper. But he's been dead wrong about such issues before. Hunger, Jason DeParle, Labeling Bias, FRAC, Welfare Reform, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100128010623.aspx 20100127035043 Clay Waters Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:42:00 -0400 When the ACORN scandal broke, the Times dragged its feet for six days before issuing a story on the devastating footage from conservative activist James O'Keefe, who caught on video the left-wing housing group giving advice to a “prostitute” and “pimp” on how to shelter illegal income from taxes. But the paper wasted no time issuing a story on the arrest of O'Keefe for attempting to tamper with the phones of Sen. Mary Landrieu. ACORN, James O'Keefe, Double Standards, Mary Landrieu, Senate, Arrest, Campbell Robertson, Liz Robbins, Jim Rutenberg http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100127035043.aspx 20100127124641 Clay Waters Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:28:00 -0400 On the eve of President Obama's first State of the Union, Jackie Calmes' front-page story credulously focuses on Obama's sudden pivot to deficit hawk without once mentioning the probable cause of such a move: The Republican win in the Mass. Senate race. The Times showed no such hesitation to point out George Bush's political struggles pre-SOTU. Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, Economy, State of the Union, Deficit, George W. Bush, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100127124641.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Jackie_Calmes2.jpg 20100126032039 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:14:00 -0400 Legal reporter Adam Liptak lauds Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who holds down the far left of the Supreme Court: "In cases involving prisoners held without charge at Guantánamo Bay and the mentally retarded on death row, his version of American justice was propelled by common sense and moral clarity, and it commanded a majority." Adam Liptak, Supreme Court, John Paul Stevens, Linda Greenhouse, Campaign Finance http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100126032039.aspx 20100126023619 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:26:00 -0400 Monica Davey lays out the Tea Party/conservative case against Mark Kirk, a moderate Republican Senate candidate in Illinois. Will the movement's assumed threat to establishment Republicans suddenly make the "angry," fringe" Tea Party movement respectable? Monica Davey, Illinois, Senate, Tea Party, Strange New Respect, Campaign 2010, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100126023619.aspx 20100126013928 Clay Waters Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:26:00 -0400 Reporter Ian Urbina gripes about state-level inconveniences resulting from the Supreme Court's ruling expanding free speech during political campaigns, while reporter David Kirkpatrick surprisingly bucks the conventional liberal media wisdom that money has an inevitably corrupting influence on politics. Ian Urbina, Campaign Finance, Free Speech, Supreme Court, David Kirkpatrick http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100126013928.aspx 20100126095155 Tim Graham Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:44:00 -0400 The Times recently offered up a 780-word article on a protest for illegal immigrants - with four marchers walking from Miami to Washington. But on Saturday, tens of thousands of Americans gathering in Washington for Friday's annual March for Life received - part of a sentence. Abortion, March for Life, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100126095155.aspx 20100125032635 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:17:00 -0400 A front-page story suggests (hopes?) that the Tea Party movement may turn on the G.O.P.: "But the deeper intramural divisions are within the Republican Party, a sign of the intensity and unpredictability of the grass-roots conservative movement. Across the country, Republican candidates are running as outsiders with the backing of conservative Tea Party groups, challenging Republicans identified with the party establishment. Several analysts said the victory in the Massachusetts Senate race of Scott Brown, a Republican who ran with Tea Party support, could encourage more challenges and drive incumbents further right." Adam Nagourney, Carl Hulse, Katharine Seelye, Kate Zernike, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100125032635.aspx 20100125123730 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:30:00 -0400 Columnist Charles Blow has his usual thoughtful take on the Mass. Senate race won by Republican Scott Brown: "Welcome to the mob: an angry, wounded electorate, riled by recession, careening across the political spectrum, still craving change, nursing a bloodlust." Charles Blow, Campaign 2010, Conservatives, Massachusetts, Scott Brown http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100125123730.aspx 20100125115937 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:53:00 -0400 Strangely, Ted Kennedy is not mentioned in a story about sexism in Mass. politics. Reporter Katie Zezima instead wonders if Mass. voters knew Martha Coakley was a woman, since she "never mentioned her gender." Martha Coakley, Katie Zezima, Sexism, Ted Kennedy, Scott Brown, Senate, Feminism http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100125115937.aspx 20100125114106 Clay Waters Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:19:00 -0400 MSNBC host and NYT contributor John Harwood interviews influential Sunday section editor Sam Tanenhaus about the Republican win in Massachusetts and jests about the title of Tanenhaus's recent book "The Death of Conservatism." Sam Tanenhaus, John Harwood, "The Death of Conservatism," Massachusetts Senate, Lindsay Graham http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100125114106.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Sam_Tanenhaus.jpg 20100122031205 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:59:00 -0400 Irony or hypocrisy? A lead editorial in the nation's premier newspaper condemns a free speech victory in the Supreme Court as a "radical decision, which strikes at the heart of democracy." Supreme Court, Editorial, Campaign Finance, First Amendment, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100122031205.aspx 20100122012940 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:14:00 -0400 So much for the First Amendment victory on campaign spending granted by the Supreme Court. A front-page headline focuses on fear of sleazy politics (aka democracy in action): "Lobbies' New Power: Cross Us, And Our Cash Will Bury You." Supreme Court, David Kirkpatrick, Campaign Finance, First Amendment, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100122012940.aspx 20100122114411 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:34:00 -0400 The nation's leading newspaper would of course celebrate a First Amendment victory at the Supreme Court, right? Well, not exactly. Front-page headline: "Dissenters Argue That Ruling Will Corrupt Democracy." Campaign Finance, Adam Liptak, Supreme Court http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100122114411.aspx 20100122110749 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:03:00 -0400 Sure: "Kasey is 10 years old. When the New Jersey State Senate voted against same-sex marriage on Jan. 7, he was devastated." Gay Marriage, New Jersey, Children, Sarah Wildman http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100122110749.aspx 20100122102816 Clay Waters Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:19:00 -0400 Paul Krugman feels forsaken by The One: "But I have to say, I'm pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in." Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, Health Care, Obama Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100122102816.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100121034606 Clay Waters Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:38:00 -0400 The Times points out four gaffes made by Democrat Martha Coakley during her losing campaign to Republican Scott Brown. So why didn't the Times mention them during the actual campaign? Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Massachusetts, Senate, Double Standards, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100121034606.aspx 20100121012928 Clay Waters Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:21:00 -0400 Congressional reporter Carl Hulse sees the bright side for the Democrats, who just might turn this crushing defeat into an eventual victory: "Amid the day's gloom, Democrats saw opportunity as well....Other centrist Democrats said the results in Massachusetts could become a blessing in disguise..." Carl Hulse, Massachusetts, Senate, Scott Brown http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100121012928.aspx 20100121122248 Clay Waters Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:15:00 -0400 Don't blame Obama - all these Democratic losses are just about state issues: "The voters of Massachusetts were definitely angry about taxes, although the ones they seemed most ticked off about were in the state. Everyone was really, really angry about the state government. This is a national theme. Vitriol also abounded last November in New Jersey and Virginia." Gail Collins, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Barack Obama, Martha Coakley, Senate http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100121122248.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2008-07-09MSNBCMJCollins.jpg 20100121115529 Clay Waters Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:49:00 -0400 The paper's political profile writer Mark Leibovichmaintains his usual pro-Democratic double standard: "[Scott Brown] strives for 'total discipline' but can be prone to curious public statements (declaring his 19- and 21- year-old daughters 'available' in his victory speech ); he has fashioned a 'nice guy' image while sometimes offending ( saying, for instance, in 2001 that lesbians having children was 'not normal')." Scott Brown, Joe Biden, Mark Leibovich, Massachusetts, Senate, Double Standards http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100121115529.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Leibovich.jpg 20100120025519 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:47:00 -0400 Political reporter Adam Nagourney (mostly) refrains from sugarcoating another Democratic loss. Adam Nagourney, Scott Brown, Massachusetts, Senate, Martha Coakley, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100120025519.aspx 20100120122517 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:13:00 -0400 Adam Nagourney on Tuesday morning, hypothesizing a Scott Brown victory and already discounting its import: "If he does win, what meaning does the victory hold a month from now, much less 11 months from now, in an era when news cycles seem to be measured in minutes, not days?" Adam Nagourney, Jeff Zeleny, Scott Brown, Massachusetts, Senate, Martha Coakley, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100120122517.aspx 20100120102756 Clay Waters Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:20:00 -0400 Reporter Abby Goodnough (and Times Watch, alas) on the next Senator from Massachusetts, Martha Coakley. Abby Goodnough, Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Massachusetts, Senate, Gaffes http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100120102756.aspx 20100119033405 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:12:00 -0400 As the Mass. Senate race goes down to the wire, the Times is still defending Democratic candidate Martha Coakley: "After Career as Their Advocate, Coakley May Face Voters' Wrath." The Times has yet to mention Coakley's controversial involvement in the unjust prison sentence of Gerald Amirault, victim of "sex abuse" hysteria. But Brown's Cosmopolitan centerfold was worth a mention in the second paragraph of his profile. Martha Coakley, Scott Brown, Liz Robbins, Massachusetts, Senate, Double Standards, Gerard Amirault, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100119033405.aspx 20100119123247 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:25:00 -0400 Michael Cooper presented only the Democratic side of a vulgar video from a Scott Brown rally: "Some hoped that the video would arouse anger among rank-and-file Democrats and cause a backlash, the way that angry outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies last year backfired and wound up hurting the ticket." Michael Cooper, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Martha Coakley, Curling Iron, Senate http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100119123247.aspx 20100119105544 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:47:00 -0400 The Times anti-Limbaugh hate-fest on MSNBC: Times contributor John Harwood calls Rush's crack that Obama would use Haiti to appeal to "both [the] light-skinned and dark-skinned black community" "pretty disgusting," and op-ed columnist Charles Blow went even further. Everyone ignored the background of Limbaugh's remarks, based in mockery of Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid's controversial comments about Obama. John Harwood, Rush Limbaugh, Haiti, Barack Obama, Charles Blow, Harry Reid, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100119105544.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/CharlesBlow.jpg 20100119103807 Clay Waters Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:24:00 -0400 Helene Cooper and Mark Landler stanch criticism of Obama's Haiti policy by giving it a radioactive label. Helene Cooper, Mark Landler, Haiti, Labeling Bias, Glenn Beck http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100119103807.aspx 20100118051732 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:11:00 -0400 Krugman in his Monday column: "Whatever the reason, Mr. Obama has allowed the public to forget, with remarkable speed, that the economy's troubles didn't start on his watch." Barack Obama, quoted in the same edition: "We have had one year to make up for eight." Paul Krugman, Gaffes, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Jeff Zeleny http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100118051732.aspx 20100118043916 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:32:00 -0400 You don't say: "Journalism, art, fashion, social work and therapy are dominated by liberals," writes Patricia Cohen about a study claiming that conservative accusations of discrimination in academia are misguided. Patricia Cohen, Liberal Bias, Academia http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100118043916.aspx 20100118034240 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:36:00 -0400 The Times liberal "ethics" columnist said he would "lie without remorse" to an insurance company asking a question about marijuana smoking, and worked in a plug for Obama-style health reform: "The real solution here is to guarantee access to medical care to all people, not just those pot-smoking liars." Randy Cohen, Health Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100118034240.aspx 20100118031612 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:09:00 -0400 While Utah, Oklahoma, and any Deep South state is bluntly called conservative by the Times, the Times entertains doubts as to whether Massachusetts really qualifies as a liberal enclave. An alternate headline shows the Times clearly approves of at least one political stereotype, the “angry” red-state conservative: “In Reliably Blue State of Massachusetts, Pockets Red With Anger.” Michael Cooper, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Senate, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100118031612.aspx 20100118115926 Clay Waters Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:51:00 -0400 Columnist Gail Collins, in denial: "Did you know that the cold snap in Florida hit the people who breed tropical fish so hard that there is a national guppy shortage? Things are bad, bad, bad. If Coakley loses, the inevitable conclusion will be that the message was a repudiation of Obama. My own theory is that the national angst is causing people to ignore the issues and just react to candidates' personalities." Gail Collins, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Barack Obama, Martha Coakley, Senate, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100118115926.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collin.jpg 20100115033639 Clay Waters Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:24:00 -0400 Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse lets down her liberal hair on nytimes.com in a column on California's Proposition 8 outlawing gay marriage: "Has anyone noticed that now that lesbians and gay men have left the closet to assert their equal rights as citizens, their adversaries seem to be running for a closet of their own?" Linda Greenhouse, Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Column http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100115033639.aspx 20100115024127 Clay Waters Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:34:00 -0400 The Times gets some things right in its story on the new strategy of "tea party" protesters, but again labels it a "fringe" movement: "Some say the party needs to broaden its reach, not cater to the fringe." Kate Zernike, Tea Parties, Labeling Bias, Republicans, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100115024127.aspx 20100114041433 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:36:00 -0400 Paul Krugman double standard alert: Four years ago, Conservative radio host Armstrong Williams was "on the take" for being paid to push Bush's education agenda, but liberal MIT health care professor Jonathan Gruber pushing Obama-care while being paid by the Obama administration "is no big deal." Paul Krugman, Jonathan Gruber, Obama-Care, Double Standards, Armstrong Williams, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100114041433.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Krugman_on_Colbert.jpg 20100114030201 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:53:00 -0400 And now, a "Special Rant" from Gail Collins: "Why isn't 90 percent of the country marching on the Capitol with teapots and funny hats, waving signs about the filibuster?" Perhaps because most people want Obama-care to be stopped, Gail Collins, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Obama-Care, Filibusters http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100114030201.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Gail_Collin.jpg 20100114014201 Clay Waters Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:43:00 -0400 Adam Nagourney provides way too much information on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "He does find time, at least twice a week, to slip on a pair of black Lycra stretch pants to do yoga with Landra at their apartment in the Ritz-Carlton." Adam Nagourney, Harry Reid, Obama-Care, Joe Lieberman, Labeling Bias, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100114014201.aspx 20100113043409 Clay Waters Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:25:00 -0400 Fair and balanced coverage from Mark Leibovich of the financial crisis hearings on Capitol Hill: "The four bankers of the apocalypse strode into the room for the Congressional equivalent of a perp walk." Mark Leibovich, Bankers, Hearings, Financial Crisis http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100113043409.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Leibovich.jpg 20100113015625 Clay Waters Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:46:00 -0400 The Times spent much of the 2008 campaign fearing Barack Obama might lose the election because whites were reluctant to vote for blacks. But when it comes to blacks reluctant to vote for white candidates in New Orleans, the Times concern for race-based voting is nowhere to be found. Campbell Robertson, Racism, New Orleans, Elections, Double Standards, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100113015625.aspx 20100113112626 Clay Waters Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:19:00 -0400 Reporter Jeff Zeleny digs into the archives to give Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid the benefit of the doubt on his "negro" remark: "Few would dispute that Mr. Obama is a far smoother speaker than Mr. Reid. But were they saying essentially the same thing?" Jeff Zeleny, Harry Reid, Negro, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100113112626.aspx 20100112024624 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:41:00 -0400 Thanks for the heads-up, Manohla! The Times liberal movie critic reminds us "that war is both dirty business (and often fought by the poor)..." Manohla Dargis, Movies, Iraq, The Hurt Locker, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100112024624.aspx 20100112013631 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:29:00 -0400 Reporter John Schwartz is making an annual specialty out of mocking Republican economic ideas in the paper's special Mutual Funds Report section: In 2005 President Bush's attempt at Social Security reform; in 2009, Reaganomics. John Schwartz, Mutual Funds Report, Reaganomics, Economy, Recession http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100112013631.aspx 20100112010640 Clay Waters Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:03:00 -0400 Sheryl Gay Stolberg had previously lauded defeated Democratic Senate leader Tom Daschle as "a man of decency." Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Chris Dodd, Retirement, Tom Daschle http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100112010640.aspx 20100112121729 Matthew Balan Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:11:00 -0400 Liberal columnist Kristof plugs Obama-care on CNN, has no problem with secret negotiations: "when people talk to you, that means they're not serious. When they actually are quiet and they are really negotiating behind closed doors and it's not transparent, that's an indication that they're actually serious, and they're willing to make the kinds of compromises to get a deal done. So I think that the only way you're going to get these compromises to get a health care package worked out is to have it be a non-transparent process....I think that this is going to make real strides that will benefit Americans. We will look back on it with pride." Nicholas Kristof, Obama-Care http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100112121729.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/2010-01-11-CNN-AM-Kristof.jpg 20100111045000 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:45:00 -0400 The Times' John Harwood claims that "No one missed Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent jab at Mr. Obama when she pointed out campaign stances that he has since set aside." Well, no one except New York Times print edition readers. John Harwood, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, CSPAN, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100111045000.aspx 20100111040239 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:54:00 -0400 “The world keeps intruding as Mr. Obama tries to execute his promised pivot" on the economy. But one of those intrusions is Obama's own health care agenda. Jackie Calmes, Barack Obama, Economy, Stimulus Package, Campaign 2010, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100111040239.aspx 20100111022902 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:22:00 -0400 Frank Rich can't stop equating the financial crisis to the destruction of the Twin Towers: "What we don't know will hurt us, and quite possibly on a more devastating scale than any Qaeda attack. Americans must be told the full story of how Wall Street gamed and inflated the housing bubble, made out like bandits, and then left millions of households in ruin." Frank Rich, September 11, Terrorism, Lehman Brothers, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100111022902.aspx 20100111014416 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:36:00 -0400 Charles Blow goes "Deliverance" on tea party protesters: "The attack on the Republican establishment by the tea party folks grabs the gaze like a really bad horror flick - some version of 'Hee Haw' meets '28 Days Later.'" Charles Blow, Campaign 2010, Conservatives, Tea Party, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100111014416.aspx 20100111113250 Clay Waters Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:16:00 -0400 The mystery of the missing moderates: The "moderate wing of the Republican Party in Florida and across the country is a very, very small group...if they exist at all,” Times political profiler Mark Leibovich confidently proclaimed. Mark Leibovich, Florida, Senate, Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist, Rachel Maddow, Labeling Bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100111113250.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Small_The Rachel Maddow Show-2010-01-08-MSNBCMaddowLeibovich-2010-01-08-0_20100111092205.jpg 20100108034721 Clay Waters Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:44:00 -0400 Plus the paper's ethics columnist berates “radio blowhards” and “tea party crackpots," and David Brooks lets us know what his fellow journalists really think of Sarah Palin. Adam Nagourney, David Herszenhorn, Peter Baker, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100108034721.aspx 20100108022949 Clay Waters Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:16:00 -0400 Covering a surprisingly tight Senate race in Massachusetts, Abby Goodnough referenced a Rasmussen Reports poll showing a Republican closing in, but twice emphasized that most news organizations including the Times disputed the organization's methodology. Yet Rasmussen called the 2008 election far more accurately than the Times did. Abby Goodnough, Massachusetts, Senate, Martha Coakley, Polls, Rasmussen Reports, Gaffes, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100108022949.aspx 20100107125901 Clay Waters Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:53:00 -0400 Gail Collins again tries to laugh off harbingers of doom for Democrats in the 2010 elections. Gail Collins, Sen. Byron Dorgan, Democrats, Campaign 2010, Columnists, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100107125901.aspx 20100107124823 Clay Waters Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:34:00 -0400 The Times' Mark Leibovich finds hecklers, racist anecdotes, and "contempt for the president" at a Florida tea party rally in a profile of the upcoming Florida Senate primary pitting Marco Rubio and a "pariah breed of Republican": the moderate Gov. Charlie Crist. Mark Leibovich, Florida, Senate, Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist, TimesWatch, New York Times, New York Times bias, liberal media bias http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100107124823.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/MarkLeibovich.jpg 20100106034145 Clay Waters Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:31:00 -0400 Ethan Bronner whitewashes Hamas arms smuggling: "One of the most interesting videos brings viewers inside the smuggler tunnels through which most consumer goods are brought into Gaza....The maker of that video, Rifaat Hamdia, 30, said he wanted to show the world that the tunnels many think of as dedicated to Hamas arms smuggling are actually the source of basic goods like cooking oil and detergent." Ethan Bronner, Hamas, Terrorism, Israel, Tunnels http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100106034145.aspx 20100106024937 Clay Waters Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:41:00 -0400 Here we go again. Reporter Peter Baker on how Barack Obama deals with the terror threat: "Where Bush saw black and white, Obama sees gray. Where Bush favored swagger, Obama is searching for a more supple blend of force and intellect." Peter Baker, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Christmas, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100106024937.aspx 20100105013421 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:26:00 -0400 Recent Times financial reporter Edmund Andrews, who posed as a victim of the mortgage crisis in a book, claims “the wanton recklessness on Wall Street that nearly wrecked the economy has exposed the limits of laissez faire thinking" and praises Rep. Barney Frank and two left-wing nonprofits. Edmund Andrews, Mortgages, Financial Crisis, Economics, Free Market http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100105013421.aspx 20100105125810 Clay Waters Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:45:00 -0400 Reporter David Herszenhorn sounds impatient. Under the partisan-Democrat headline "Bypassing a Roadblock," he wrote, "But the clear will of Democratic leaders in Congress is not to deal with more Republican stalling." David Herszenhorn, Obama-Care, Carl Hulse, Republicans, Stalling http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100105125810.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Herszenhorn.jpg 20100104042819 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:19:00 -0400 A four-person Miami-to-Washington march in support of illegal immigrants gets nearly the same level of coverage as the 100,000-strong rally of conservatives at the Capitol did in September. Illegal Immigration, Julia Preston, Double Standards, Protesters http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100104042819.aspx 20100104030353 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:52:00 -0400 But some of his victims aren't quite sympathetic: "[Wanda Debnam] sleeps with her 8-year-old granddaughter under a poster of the Jonas Brothers and uses her food stamps to avoid her daughter-in-law's cooking." Jason DeParle, Robert Gebeloff, Welfare Reform, Food Stamps, Labeling Bias, FRAC http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100104030353.aspx http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/Bermudez.jpg 20100104021322 Clay Waters Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:06:00 -0400 Reporter Campbell Robertson can't get over how "deep-red" conservative his native state of Alabama is: "...the hostile reaction to Democrats over the past year has been intense enough to turn an already deeply red state - one that President Obama lost by more than 20 percentage points in 2008 - even redder." Bobby Bright, Campbell Robertson, Labeling Bias, Alabama, Congress, Barack Obama http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2010/20100104021322.aspx