Posted on 11/18/2021 5:14:29 PM PST by george76
Gates Foundation donated at least $319 million to fund media projects at hundreds of organizations including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS and The Atlantic, raising questions about those news outlets’ ability to report objectively on Gates and his work.
Up until his recent messy divorce, Bill Gates enjoyed something of a free pass in corporate media. Generally presented as a kindly nerd who wants to save the world, the Microsoft co-founder was even unironically christened “Saint Bill” by The Guardian.
While other billionaires’ media empires are relatively well known, the extent to which Gates’s cash underwrites the modern media landscape is not.
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Recipients of this cash include many of America’s most important news outlets, including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS and The Atlantic.
Gates also sponsors a myriad of influential foreign organizations, including the BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph in the UK; prominent European newspapers such as Le Monde (France), Der Spiegel (Germany) and El País (Spain); as well as big global broadcasters like Al-Jazeera.
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For example, the $3.6 million CNN grant went towards “report[ing] on gender equality
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Gates-sponsored media projects come to a total of $319.4 million.
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the true figure is undoubtedly far higher. First, it does not count sub-grants — money given by recipients to media around the world.
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In comparison to other tech billionaires, Gates has kept his profile as a media controller relatively low. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s purchase of The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013 was a very clear and obvious form of media influence, as was eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s creation of First Look Media, the company that owns The Intercept.
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Defund Billionaires.
I’m confident that this had no effect whatsoever on the journalistic integrity or objectivity of reporter, editor, or publisher.
Its already documented hes paid millions to have them pretend intervew him and cover him as a vax expert.
And Biden wants to give billions of dollars worth of tax breaks to media organizations in the BBB legislation. But, of course, this isn’t a bribe, and, furthermore, of course it will be equally spread between left-leaning and right-leaning media outlets. You know, “legitimate” media outlets.
Kind of gives a whole new impression to the description, FAKE NEWS, now that we know you can just BUY THE NEWS you want
For my entire life Republicans have tailored tax policy around big business only to have them all swing hard left. It’s just one more gigantic failure. On their part.
Too much money circulating within the rich, powerful and sneaky. Money from guess where.
The seasoned politician advised the neophyte that the secret of success for a politician is sincerity, and as soon as you can fake that your success is assured.
How about the homeless?
DR Evil (bill Gates) could by a lot of friends with 300 meeeelion dowlers
Gates is paying the media whores.
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