More on the Decline of the Washington Post

Amanda Silverman has an article in The New Republic describing how a new partnership between the WP and The Financial Times, an organization financed by Pete Peterson's Foundation, led to the publication of a Financial Times article quoting officials of other organizations funded by Pete Peterson's Foundation, which supported policies long advocated by Pete Peterson. One problem with the article apparently was that it did not acknowledge the financing from Peterson's surrogates.

Silverman writes:

In TFT’s defense, Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli told the Times that the Post editors were the ones to “conceive” the story and then commissioned TFT to write it.

Comment: I don't think that a partnership with another organization relieves WP editors from the responsibility of acknowledging interests, especially financial interests, behind the articles it publishes, especially if they are published as news.

Silverman suggests that others feel even more strongly:

Dean Baker, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, argued that in publishing the piece The Washington Post had ceased to exist as “a serious newspaper,” and subsequently over a dozen wonks and academics called for the Post to end its partnership with the “propaganda arm for ideologues.”