The Gates Foundation has donated about one quarter of a billion dollars to media outlets – which then give Gates a platform to pursue his own interests and messaging, rarely providing any skeptical questioning of what he promotes. This report is from the Columbia Journalism Review.
Reminder – a public opinion poll is a metric measuring the success or failure of a propaganda campaign, especially when the public is asked to have views on things they may know little about.
The Oregonian runs a top of the page web site “report” about an author – who happens to have previously worked for the paper – coming to a local bookstore to discuss her new book. There is no new “news” in this report – it is a prominent free ad for the author and her new book. Literally, a free ad for someone that once worked for the paper.
The academic, media and public health communities, together with the Department of Homeland Security ran a massive censorship program across all social media platforms – specifically targeting information that they knew to be factually correct.
Newspapers view themselves as heroes holding government accountable and being the voice of the unseen victims of the world. Except, in reality, they are missing most of the stories – including big ones like the SVB bank collapse which was hiding in plain sight.