Bill Gates, the New York Times, and undisclosed conflicts of interest - Failure to Disclose Conflict of Interest
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- Category: BMGF
- Created: Thursday, 27 August 2020 06:04
- Written by Diana Ravitch
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She writes:
One of the media organizations Schwab discusses, Solutions Journalism, has received $7.6 million from the Gates Foundation since 2014 to write articles suggesting practical solutions to social problems and train other reporters to do so as well. Since then, as Schwab points out, SJ has repeatedly produced stories praising projects and companies that are Foundation grantees and/or have received personal investments from Bill Gates himself.
Solutions Journalism was founded by David Bornstein and Tina Rosenberg in 2013 and they continue to run the organization and receive six figure salaries as CEO and VP for Innovation respectively…
Bornstein and Rosenberg also have a regular column in the NY Times called “Fixes”, which according to Schwab has run at least 15 favorable stories promoting the work of the Gates Foundation by name, without any mention that the columnists are funded by the Foundation as well.
Haimson goes on to document the praise that these columnists have lavished in Gates-funded projects, and their failure to mention criticism. In effect, they operate as a PR team for Bill Gates and his pet projects.
She cites the ethical standards of the Times as well as the organization Solutions Journalism and points out that they don’t meet their own professed standards.
What are Bill Gates’ ethical standards?
