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Clay Waters

Public Broadcasting & NPR Analyst

Clay Waters monitors bias on PBS and National Public Radio for NewsBusters. Clay has been affiliated with the Media Research Center since joining as a fall intern in 1993, except for a three-year break in Manhattan serving as opinion editor for Bridge News. His journalism and reviews have appeared in National Review Online, Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web, Human Events, The Federalist, The American Spectator, The American Conservative, the New York Post, and the Drudge Report, as well as thousands of posts for NewsBusters and as director of TimesWatch, MRC’s previous project monitoring the New York Times.


Latest Blogs

VOX: Right's Vicious React to Kirk a Call for Authoritarian Repression

Clay Waters
September 12th, 2025 1:22 PM

PBS Embraced by Radical Abrams: Defunded For Daring to Tell the Truth!

Clay Waters
September 10th, 2025 3:06 PM
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‘Chicago Braces’: PBS Sees City Afraid of Trump’s ‘Crackdown on Crime'

Clay Waters
September 8th, 2025 12:48 PM

NPR in Denial: 'There Is No Message' in Minneapolis Church Shooting

Clay Waters
September 4th, 2025 10:33 PM

NYT Ties Trump to Hitler for Wanting 'Science with Practical Results'

Clay Waters
September 4th, 2025 9:54 PM

NYT: Rather’s CBS News Show Stood on ‘Pillars of Objective Journalism'

Clay Waters
September 2nd, 2025 11:05 PM

NYT Front Beyond Parody: 'Black Women Among the Hardest Hit' by Trump

Clay Waters
September 2nd, 2025 10:35 AM
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WILD! CNN Guest: Trump Leading Us to ‘American Reich’ Like 1933 Berlin

Clay Waters
September 1st, 2025 6:59 PM

Conservatism-Basher Faults NYT for ‘Mostly Peaceful' Riot Coverage

Clay Waters
September 1st, 2025 8:15 AM

NPR Reporter Admits 'Sob Stories' on Deportations 'All Over the Place'

Clay Waters
August 30th, 2025 10:06 PM

NYT Greets Extreme Riley Gaines: 'Offensiveness Is Part of Her Brand'

Clay Waters
August 29th, 2025 7:59 AM
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PBS LEAPS on Lefty Boycott: Target Is 'Reeling,' a 'Growing Backlash'

Clay Waters
August 25th, 2025 7:53 PM

Media Hated Trump’s English Proficiency Order for Truckers Months Ago

Clay Waters
August 24th, 2025 9:30 PM

NY Times 'Analysis': Trump Denies 'Legitimacy of the Black Experience'

Clay Waters
August 22nd, 2025 1:14 PM
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PBS Distorts Trump Smithsonian Crusade, Hosts Prof to Rant on Jim Crow

Clay Waters
August 21st, 2025 9:25 PM

Variety Mag: 'As Fascism Takes Hold' Will TV Show 'Real-Life Horrors?'

Clay Waters
August 20th, 2025 10:14 PM

NY Times Laments Success of Trump’s ‘Echo Chamber’ on Crime vs Reality

Clay Waters
August 19th, 2025 10:56 AM
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PBS 'News' or Democrat Hacks? Platforming Marc Elias Talking Points

Clay Waters
August 18th, 2025 4:47 PM
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PBS Sees 'Racially Tinged Hypocrisy' in Trump's D.C. Anti-Crime Blitz

Clay Waters
August 17th, 2025 4:22 PM
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PBS's Double Standards: Hateful Loomer vs. Gaza’s ‘Mister Rogers'

Clay Waters
August 15th, 2025 1:50 PM