15. Tim Schwab on Bill Gates, the Media, the Covid, and the Public Rehabilitation of Bad Billionaires
Failed State Update
English - August 27, 2020 00:09 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MB - ★★★★ - 15 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Tim Schwab is a freelance journalist based in Washington DC and 2019 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow. Tonight he's visiting the Failed State to talk about his latest for Columbia Journalism Review, "Journalism’s Gates Keepers." In the post-Covid world, where Bill Gates is seen as something of a technocratic foil to Trump's science-blind political posturing, it's important to examine the Gates's eponymous foundation with a critical eye. And that's what' Schwab has been doing, in articles for CJR and The Nation that ask if all that cash the Foundation is spreading around doesn't have some pretty significant strings attached.
"Journalism’s Gates Keepers" (CJR): https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
"Bill Gates’s Charity Paradox" (The Nation): https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/
Tim Schwab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TimothyWSchwab
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All music in this episode by Jon Sudano
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