It seems that Bill Gates managed to get the press to be on his part with massive amounts of money. Check out the latest reports about this below.
Bill Gates pours tons of money into the media
Accoridng to the latest reports, it seems that while other billionaires’ media empires are relatively well known, the extent to which Gates’s cash underwrites the modern media landscape is not. After sorting through over 30,000 individual grants, MintPress can reveal that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has made over $300 million worth of donations to fund media projects.
“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 United Kingdom; prominent European newspapers such as Le Monde (France), Der Spiegel (Germany) and El País (Spain); as well as big global broadcasters like Al-Jazeera.”
The Gates Foundation money going towards media programs has been split up into a number of sections, presented in descending numerical order, and includes a link to the relevant grant on the organization’s website.
Bill Gates has given $319 million to media outlets. Including:
NPR: $24,663,066
The Guardian: $12,951,391
Der Spiegel: $5,437,294
NBC: $4,373,500
Le Monde: $4,014,512
BBC: $3,668,657
CNN: $3,600,000The media won’t bite the hand that feeds them.
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) March 25, 2023
It’s also been revealed that an investigative journalist Tim Schwab said: “I don’t believe Gates told The Bureau of Investigative Journalism what to write. I think the bureau implicitly, if subconsciously, knew they had to find a way to tell this story that didn’t target their funder. The biasing effects of financial conflicts are complex but very real and reliable,” Schwab said, describing it as “a case study in the perils of Gates-funded journalism.”
1/ Months ago, I was asked to be a co-reporter on this story. I declined b/c the #GatesFoundation was a funder, which I knew would make it impossible to rigorously examine Gates’s role in Covax. This story is a case study in the perils of Gates-funded journalism. 🧵Read on & RT: https://t.co/hkFQOBEGff
— Tim Schwab (@TimothyWSchwab) October 13, 2021
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— Lieve Noels (@LieveNoels) October 14, 2021
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