{"id":131697,"date":"2024-01-30T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=131697"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T19:12:26","slug":"ties-that-bind-bill-gates-and-ap-the-independent-news-service-dedicated-to-factual-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/ties-that-bind-bill-gates-and-ap-the-independent-news-service-dedicated-to-factual-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ties that bind: Bill Gates and AP, the ‘independent’ news service dedicated to ‘factual reporting’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special to WorldTribune.com<\/span>, January 30, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

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Corporate<\/span> WATCH<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Commentary by<\/em><\/span> Joe Schaeffer <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> @Schaeff55<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s telling that the reposting of vacuous mutterings about the loss to \u201cdemocracy\u201d by glum Democrat politicians was a staple of social media activity by laid-off Los Angeles Times staffers in the days after they were jettisoned from the crumbling newspaper. Completely devoid of any self-awareness whatsoever, these progressive activists thinly disguised as journalists instinctively leaned on<\/a> statist officials<\/a> of the ruling establishment to tell the American people just how important they are.<\/p>\n

As has been widely reported, the ludicrously woke<\/a> Times on Jan. 23 let go<\/a> 115 employees. That amounts to more than 20 percent of the news staff.<\/p>\n

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In a more honest age, there would be a word that fits this: propaganda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The blending of an allegedly once-independent major media apparatus with the dominant political status quo is fact in America today. It’s not difficult to document. The total abandonment of journalistic ethics becomes more pronounced with each passing day.<\/p>\n

In December, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation bestowed<\/a> a lavish $1,829,815 grant on the Associated Press, the leading news wire service in America. The check was cut \u201cto deepen AP\u2019s reporting on Africa, and to amplify the work of scientists and experts innovating in the areas of global health and development.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those even the least bit familiar with the Microsoft co-founder’s global endeavors<\/a> to promote vaccines, population control<\/a> and other \u201chealth\u201d ventures, the implications could not be more clear: Bill Gates is purchasing positive coverage of his \u201cphilanthropic\u201d efforts in Africa.<\/p>\n

Gates has very good reason to support AP. It has vigorously backed<\/a> his work in Africa in so-called \u201cnews articles\u201d and even defended criticism of him in the name of fighting<\/a> \u201cwidely shared disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

How\u2019s that $1.8 million investment paying off? Check out the lead sentence of this Jan. 25 AP article:<\/a><\/p>\n

The CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has a message: Hey billionaires, give away more of your money to address inequality and do it soon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Displaying a truly brazen disregard for the appearance of compromise, AP interviewed Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman, using his words to give the most sunny account possible of its financial benefactor:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing exactly what my call to action is,\u201d Suzman said in an interview with The Associated Press. \u201dAt a time of great need, if there is an opportunity to expand our giving, we should be modeling what that looks like.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s OK, though, because AP acknowledges it is owned by the subject of its \u201creporting\u201d in a one-sentence disclaimer in paragraph 13:<\/p>\n

The Associated Press receives financial support for news coverage in Africa from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an actual X post from the “philanthropy editor” of the Associated Press \u2013 if you thought his desk was about investigating these super-wealthy foundations, you thought wrong:<\/p>\n

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Why @gatesfoundation<\/a> CEO is asking billionaires to give it away, give it away, give it away now. #philanthropy<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/bmIztqeBhy<\/a><\/p>\n

— Glenn Gamboa (@GlennGamboa) January 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n