In the Spotlight
Frank Bergman
August 24, 2022
“This Gates should’ve given all of that money to the hard working American People and not to these mass media scoundrels who do nothing but lie to the People !!! Just goes to show where the imbecile’s allegiances lie. Bill Gates is definitely rubbing on the wrong side of history. Very soon he will find out why when all of his beneficiaries stop being watched and read by their audiences who are the People. All I can say is, let him learn the hard way. I have no doubt Gates is going to end up homeless just like what I have prayed for, for his other imbecile friend in Silicon Valley, who’s meddling with Elections right now.” – Leafblogazine
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates pumped a staggering $319 million into several media outlets, an investigation has revealed.
Gates poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Big Media outlets and their related organizations all over the world, including CNN, BBC, NBC, The Atlantic, The Financial Times, and others.
The money was funneled to the news organizations via the tech billionaire’s Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the form of grants.
The major investment was uncovered during an investigation by independent outlet MintPress.
MintPress obtained documents that reveal Gates distributed the funds in the form of over 30,000 individual grants.
Dozens of left-wing mainstream media outlets all benefited from the funding, which hasn’t been explained by Gates.
NPR was the largest beneficiary, receiving a whopping $24 million in funding.
The Guardian follows with a huge $13 million “grant.”
Meanwhile, CNN was given $3.6 million for, in part, its supposed “report[ing] on gender equality with a particular focus on least developed countries, producing journalism on the everyday inequalities endured by women and girls across the world.”
Gates’s funding has even stretched into Germany, with the outlet Der Spiegel benefiting from $5 million in funding.
Other international outlets that received millions from Gates include France’s Le Monde and South African outlet Bhekisisa.
In total, Gates has funneled $166 million directly to media outlets while distributing the remaining money to various media centers and journalism organizations.
The World University Service of Canada also received $12 million from Gates’s foundation.
Gates’s money has even flowed into Chinese media, with Caixin Media receiving $250,000 from the mogul and Tsinghua University benefiting from a $450,000 grant provided by the foundation.
Interestingly, many of the outlets that received the funding are also supportive of Gates’s pro-vaccine agenda.
In June, it was revealed that Gates also gave tens of millions of dollars to various Canadian pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
The Gates Foundation provided a total of $23 million to facilities like the Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal to “provide effective, accessible, scalable treatment for COVID-19.”
Other projects under the initiative include grants to Emerging Ag Inc. to “increase awareness and understanding of possible gene drive applications for public good purposes within international policy forums.”
Gates’s foundation gave grants to the following media outlets:
NPR- $24,663,066
The Guardian (including TheGuardian.org)- $12,951,391
Cascade Public Media – $10,895,016
Public Radio International (PRI.org/TheWorld.org)- $7,719,113
The Conversation- $6,664,271
Univision- $5,924,043
Der Spiegel (Germany)- $5,437,294
Project Syndicate- $5,280,186
Education Week – $4,898,240
WETA- $4,529,400
NBCUniversal Media- $4,373,500
Nation Media Group (Kenya) – $4,073,194
Le Monde (France)- $4,014,512
Bhekisisa (South Africa) – $3,990,182
El País – $3,968,184
BBC- $3,668,657
CNN- $3,600,000
KCET- $3,520,703
Population Communications International (population.org) – $3,500,000
The Daily Telegraph – $3,446,801
Chalkbeat – $2,672,491
The Education Post- $2,639,193
Rockhopper Productions (U.K.) – $2,480,392
Corporation for Public Broadcasting – $2,430,949
UpWorthy – $2,339,023
Financial Times – $2,309,845
The 74 Media- $2,275,344
Texas Tribune- $2,317,163
Punch (Nigeria) – $2,175,675
News Deeply – $1,612,122
The Atlantic- $1,403,453
Minnesota Public Radio- $1,290,898
YR Media- $1,125,000
The New Humanitarian- $1,046,457
Sheger FM (Ethiopia) – $1,004,600
Al-Jazeera- $1,000,000
ProPublica- $1,000,000
Crosscut Public Media – $810,000
Grist Magazine- $750,000
Kurzgesagt – $570,000
Educational Broadcasting Corp – $506,504
Classical 98.1 – $500,000
PBS – $499,997
Gannett – $499,651
Mail and Guardian (South Africa)- $492,974
Inside Higher Ed.- $439,910
BusinessDay (Nigeria) – $416,900
Medium.com – $412,000
Nutopia- $350,000
Independent Television Broadcasting Inc. – $300,000
Independent Television Service, Inc. – $300,000
Caixin Media (China) – $250,000
Pacific News Service – $225,000
National Journal – $220,638
Chronicle of Higher Education – $149,994
Belle and Wissell, Co. $100,000
Media Trust – $100,000
New York Public Radio – $77,290
KUOW – Puget Sound Public Radio – $5,310
The Gates Foundation has also given nearly $63 million to charities closely aligned with Big Media outlets.
Those donations include nearly $53 million to BBC Media Action, over $9 million to MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation, and $1 million to The New York Times Neediest Causes Fund.
While not specifically funding journalism, donations to the philanthropic arm of a media player should still be noted.
Gates also continues to underwrite a wide network of journalism centers.
Funding for centers totals just over $38 million, more than half of which has gone to the Washington D.C.-based International Center for Journalists.
