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Bill Gates Uses Influence Over Washington Post, GOOD and Other Publications He 'Sponsors' to Privatise Education, Promote His Patent Monopolies

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Summary: Catching up with the mischiefs of Microsoft's co-founder, who back in February had another PR blitz for self-promotion and selfish benefit disguised as "philanthropy"

WE are gradually catching up with old Gates Foundation news, handling the queue chronologically and starting where we last left off. For the uninitiated, Gates loves polio for PR reasons, even though the problem was mostly eliminated a long time ago and some of Gates' existing investments actually cause polio, as we explained in previous years [1, 2, 3].



By controlling the corporate media just like he controls education (or strives to control it as it's still an ongoing campaign), the facts might require proper research and sceptical analysis. We already published dozens of posts demonstrating very clearly that Gates is distorting the press with a budget of approximately a million dollars per day dedicated just to "advocacy" (i.e. media/press/PR). Our friends at Gates Keepers have found that "[t]wo newspapers of record present critical analysis of the Gates Foundation 'megabucks against polio' hype." Quoting the remark preceding the examples (from the corporate press, not just some arbitrary blogs):

Two 'newspapers of record' have chosen to counter the flash and hype surrounding the Gates Foundation throwing money at polio eradication in order to present more balanced views. Journalists at The New York Times and Financial Times have done their homework.


It is still the minority of reports. A lot of journalists play safe by just getting along with Gates' well-funded PR machine. Education too is becoming an area where antagonising Gates can get one dismissed. "Bill Gates (briefly) talks school reform with The [Washington] Post," says this headline from the paper which may have expelled Melinda Gates after a scandal. The following story sounds familiar as we previously covered cases where Gates uses "health" as a Trojan horse to enter newspapers and then lobby them regarding entirely different subjects (there was a more recent example where he visited the New York Times for this purpose). Read the following:

Bill Gates dropped by The Post on Wednesday morning, mainly to plug his foundation's campaign to eradicate polio, but we managed to squeeze in a few questions on education reform. The bottom line remains, unsurprisingly, unchanged: He's a fan of measuring teacher effectiveness and a foe of teacher tenure.

Gates met with several writers and editors in The Post's ninth-floor boardroom. On education, he was responding to questions from editorial writer Jo-Ann Armao, myself and editorial page editor Fred Hiatt.

(By the way, Melinda F. Gates, wife of the Microsoft founder, is no longer on The Post Co. board of directors. Warren E. Buffett, a major donor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, serves on The Post board but plans to step down in spring.)


He neglects to say the reason. We covered that some months ago. It appeared like Melinda had (mis)used the paper to attack a potential rival. The Gates family does that a lot. Just watch what their lobbying operation does in order to take education away from public hands:

Joanne Barkan, writing in Dissent, argues that three big nonprofit foundations (the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation), working together, exert a “decisive influence” on public-school education.


To give another example from around the same time, we already mentioned "GOOD" being sponsored by Gates (how ironic for the name). Watch how "GOOD" is now being used to attack Gates' competition:

Ann Marie Gardner has written an angry article in GOOD. It includes ad hominem attacks on Horton and others who don't agree with Gardner and Bill Gates. Is this a GOOD idea? GOOD is funded by the Gates Foundation.


"The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping out the world health agency’s policy-making function," wrote the New York Times in 2008. See the trend here? Someone is monopolising. And even Al Jazeera stoops low enough and kneels for Gates:

Gates has been everywhere this week talking about eradicating polio. Here he talks about this plan on Al Jazeera English. It is very clear that the money is in one big pot right now, so who is going to leap for it? With so much power (re: $$$$), Gates is in the unique position to drive global health


More polio propaganda, going back to around February of this year.

In the coming weeks we hope to catch up with a pile of news we have missed. Microsoft may be going down fast (or becoming a patent troll like Bill's friend, Nathan Myhrvold), but Bill will stay here for a long time to come, continuing to leech and exploit society with his patent monopolies, always ensuring that he bribes the press sufficiently so that it plays along (blind praise or at least self-censorship).

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