Ben Slade

"...The Washington Post published an political lobbying article, presented as a news story, which could be a signal of the death of the Post as an independent and objective news source.

The piece, entitled 'Support grows for tackling nation's debt,' appeared to be one of those background news pieces common in newspapers like the Post.

But article was written not by the newspaper's reporters - and not by an objective wire service, like the Associated Press - but by a new organization called The Fiscal Times, whose founder and major backer [is] Peter G. Peterson [partner in Wall Street’s Blackstone Group and former Republican Treasury Secretary, president of the Concord coalition to reduce the deficit]

I might even support radical plans to cut the deficit, but that's not the point. I want to know who I can trust, and apparently the Washington Post is no longer on the list.

It's just shocking that the Post would so casually sell their journalistic soul. Shouldn't an editor at the Wash Post get fired or demoted for this?