By: Michael Calderone

I’ve noted on this blog repeatedly how the political media largely caved to claims of press bias on behalf of top Clinton staffers.

Today, public editor Clark Hoyt concludes that the NY Times, at least, has not been in the tank for Obama.

For several weeks, my associate, Michael McElroy, and I have been counting and comparing photographs, counting and ranking articles as positive or negative for one candidate or the other, reading coverage and staff blogs on nytimes.com, and looking back through an extensive body of enterprise reporting on Clinton and Obama.

Some of what we found may surprise some readers. It has caused me to conclude that The Times has not been systematically biased in its news coverage, even if it has occasionally given ammunition to those who claim otherwise.

Considering that Hoyt has been more than willing to criticize The Times reporting when appropriate (most recently over the McCain article), I trust he wouldn’t let the paper off the hook easily.

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