It appears that the WaPo piece was dictated by some extreme left organization and published under a newspaper writer name. However, to give an example, at the San Francisco news website SFGate, the managing editor is a screamingly left fanatic who writes her own heavily slanted articles and reprints a lot of WaPo far left articles.

But yes, the media are full of such paid to plant material; The Atlantic since its takeover (purchase by Jobs' widow) carries a lot of biased bullcrap obviously written to suit an agenda to be PR shotgunned around.