Coverage Of The Washington Post “Pay-To-Influence” Coverage Scandal

-- HUFFINGTON POST: "Washington Post Lets Pete Peterson Write the News on Deficit" (Roger Hickey, Jan. 1, 2010) – also posted on DFA Anne Arundel blog

-- AMERICAN PROSPECT BLOG: "Washington Post Joins With Peter Peterson, Ends Pretense of Being a Serious Newspaper " (Dean Baker, Dec. 31, 2009)

-- POLITICO: "Critics question Post partnership" (Mike Allen, Jan. 2, 2010)

-- POLITICO ARENA: "Washington Post and Fiscal Times" (Dean Baker, Jan. 2, 2010) - also posted at Political Wrinkles Forum

-- DELAWARE WAY BLOG: "Funny How Corporate Types Can Hate Social Safety Nets As Much As They Love Their Corporate Welfare Programs: On Pete Peterson's Unseemly Desires" (Nancy Willing, Jan. 2, 2010)

-- FIREDOGLAKE BLOG: "Calls Begin For Washington Post To End Content" (David Dayen, Jan. 2, 2010) – also posted on Zikkir

-- AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE'S ANDREW G. BIGGS BLOG: "Washington Post Partnership With Peterson-Funded Fiscal Times Draws Fire From Left" (Andrew Biggs, Jan. 2, 2010)

-- I WATCH OBAMA BLOG: "Critics question Post partnership" (Jan. 2, 2010)

-- MEDIA MATTERS: "WaPo Turns News Pages Over To Conservative Billionaire's News Service" (Matthew Gertz, Jan. 3, 2010)

Coverage of Peter Peterson's effort to slash Social Security and Medicare:

-- HUFFINGTON POST: "Pete Peterson Teams Up with Kent Conrad to Undermine Democracy, Slash Social Security & Medicare, and Weaken Fragile Recovery" (Roger Hickey, Dec. 13, 2009) - also posted at TPMcafe and BlogforOurFuture.

-- HUFFINGTON POST: "You Still Want To Gut Social Security? Bring. It. On." (Susan Madrak, Jan. 3, 2010) – also posted on Suburban Guerilla

-- HULLABALOO BLOG: "Taking The Field" (Digby, Dec. 31, 2009)

-- FIREDOGLAKE BLOG: "Will Obama's Jobs Program Be Undercut By Kent Conrad's Cat Food Commission?" (David Dayen, Dec. 8, 2009)

-- TRUTHOUT.ORG BLOG: "Concerns Mounting That White House, Congress Won't Do Enough to Halt Job Losses" (Art Levine, Dec. 3, 2009)

-- FIREDOGLAKE BLOG: "Jobs Creation or Deficit Reduction? The Public Has Decided" (Tula Connell, Dec. 3, 2009)

-- OURFUTUREBLOG: "Grand Bargain Redux" (Digby, Dec. 1, 2009)

Coverage of Peter Peterson's Fiscal Times venture:

-- FISHBOWLNY BLOG: "Fiscal Times Will Have Powerhouse Of Journos, Content" (Drew Grant, Dec. 17, 2009)

-- ZIKKIR BLOG: "The Fiscal Times" (Dec. 18, 2009)

Coverage about opposition to Sen. Conrad's budget commission:

-- FIREDOGLAKE BLOG: "The Teabaggers' Worst Nightmare, and Yours" (wigwam, Jan. 3, 2010)

-- HUFFINGTON POST: "White House Considers Punting Deficit Problem To 'Bipartisan' Commission" (Jason Linkins, Dec. 16, 2009

-- THE BEST POSSIBLE LIFE BLOG: "AARP joins the protest against a ‘deficit commission'" (Dec. 11, 2009)

-- WASHINGTON POST'S EZRA KLEIN BLOG: "The Little Commission That Couldn't" (Ezra Klein, Dec. 9, 2009)

-- OPEN LEFT BLOG: "Over 30 progressive groups say no to the Social Security commission" (Chris Bowers, Dec. 5, 2009)

-- TALKING POINTS MEMO BLOG: "Liberal Groups Organize In Opposition To Entitlement Reform Panel" (Brian Beutler, Nov. 25, 2009)