The Seattle Times’ Sandi Doughton and Kristi Heim report on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s practice of paying media organizations to report on matters of global health.
It’s a good overview. I’ve also written loads about this for Humanosphere, some of which you can read about here and here.
The Seattle Times asks “Does Gates Foundation funding of media taint objectivity?”
The foundation’s grants to media organizations such as ABC and The Guardian, one of Britain’s leading newspapers, raise obvious conflict-of-interest questions: How can reporting be unbiased when a major player holds the purse strings?
Good question!
But, spoiler alert, the Seattle Times doesn’t answer its own question. Continue reading
