by Jon Rappoport<\/p>\n
BILL GATES:<\/strong>\u00a0Here, from FAIR, the long-standing media-watch group, is a September 4, 2016, article,\u00a0\u201cThis Guardian piece touting Bill Gates\u2019 education investment brought to you by Bill Gates.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0It adds a layer of explanation about Gates\u2019 Death Star:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Gates Foundation gives grants in the hundreds of thousands and often millions to such media organizations as NBCUniversal, Al Jazeera, BBC, Viacom (CBS) and Participant Media (the producer of pro-charter school documentary Waiting for Superman). Both Gates and the Gates Foundation are sizable shareholders in Comcast, which is the primary investor in Buzzfeed and Vox, as well the parent corporation of MSNBC and NBC News\u2014the latter of which teamed up with Gates and other noted education experts like Exxon and University of Phoenix Online for the week-long charter school commercial \u2018Education Week\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2009, the New York Times reported that the Gates Foundation was partnering with media companies to write and shape stories to \u2018embed\u2019 messages in primetime dramas:\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019It [the Gates Foundation] is less well known as a behind-the-scenes influencer of public attitudes toward these issues by helping to shape story lines and insert messages into popular entertainment like the television shows ER, Law & Order: SVU and Private Practice. The foundation\u2019s messages on HIV prevention, surgical safety AND THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES have found their way into these shows.\u201d [CAPS are mine]<\/p>\n \u201cHis enormous wealth and the reach of media parent corporations seem to exempt Gates from routine disclosure requirements. He was offered up as an education expert in the pro-charter Waiting for Superman, without any mention of the fact that he donated at least $2 million to the film and had a media partnership with its distributor, Viacom. He is given softball interviews in Comcast-backed Vox without disclosure that he\u2019s a major Comcast investor. Because his stake in media companies is laundered enough times, it\u2019s assumed not to merit mention.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn the case of the Guardian, Gates effectively owns an entire vertical, so when one of his investments is written up, one doesn\u2019t notice the conflict of interest\u2014like a fish doesn\u2019t notice water. Because his influence is everywhere, it appears to be nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n