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''The Fiscal Times'' (TFT) is an English-language digital news, news analysis and opinion publication based in New York City and Washington, D.C. and founded in 2010. The publication received its initial funding from Peter G. Peterson, founder of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and a billionaire investment banker, who has long advocated deficit reduction, reduced social welfare program expenditures, and cuts to Social Security. Through three core content channels—policy and politics, business and economy, and life and money—the publication focuses on how fiscal policy affects business and consumers and how business and consumer behavior influences government fiscal policy. The site's news coverage also tracks the Presidency, Congress and the Federal Reserve, the euro zone fiscal crisis, and U.S. business as part of a global economic system. ==History== Peter G. Peterson, founder of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, initially funded ''The Fiscal Times'' in 2009 and 2010. Liberal advocacy groups accused Peterson, a former investment banker who advocates for deficit reduction and entitlement program cutbacks, of having a political agenda for funding the start-up publication. On 31 December 2009, the ''Washington Post'' published a news article, "Support grows for tackling nation's debt," created by ''The Fiscal Times'' as part of a content partnership agreement with the Post. The liberal media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) issued an "Action Alert" in reaction to the story, saying that the ''Post'' had taken "special-interest 'propaganda' and passed it off as a news story."〔(Washington Post Lets Lobbyists Write Its Stories ) Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, 6 January 2010〕 ''Washington Post'' ombudsman Andrew Alexander, responded to what he described as an "uproar" from critics, criticized his paper's "glaring lack of transparency" on the partnership and wrote that the piece "was not sufficiently balanced," but nonetheless defended ''The Fiscal Times'' partnership, writing that Peterson had told him that his funding of ''The Fiscal Times'' had "no strings attached." FAIR also criticized the ''Post'' for publishing another ''Fiscal Times'' article that FAIR criticized as a "soft profile" of two members of the White House deficit reduction commission. FAIR questioned whether the piece entertained "serious criticism of the ideas being advanced so far by the commission (cutting Social Security, most notably)."〔 Celebrating the February 2010 launch of the website for ''The Fiscal Times'', an article in "The Washington Scene" section of ''The Hill'' stated that it had received "rave reviews, with guests and journalists commending the site on its non-partisan, clearly numbers-based approach to reporting the news of money." An article by the liberal AlterNet published the following month, by contrast, attacked ''The Fiscal Times'' as "Wall Street tycoon-funded" propaganda. Economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research think tank wrote in April 2010 that the publication's news articles displayed pro-deficit-reduction bias. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Fiscal Times」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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