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[TreasonousBastard]

9. You mean the Gates Foundation that's...

spending millions fighting disease in Africa?

Or that evil Gates Foundation that claims to be working for better education but is beholden to the forces of charter schools and the destruction of public education? Like anyone can bribe Bill Gates...

Nobody's perfect, and Gates has been known to turn on a dime when an approach isn't working and the goal is better education, not how to get there. NPR and PBS have been known to dance quietly around their larger contributors just as newspapers, magazines, and TV have danced around major advertisers. And everyone makes mistakes and misjudgments-- even the lauded advertising-free Consumer Reports has blown it here and there.

Overall, I've found NPR to be generally bias-free and an excellent news source. Not perfect, but overall pretty damn good and damn near half the "latest breaking news" I see here on DU I heard the day before on NPR. And shows like Diane Riehm's can look deeply into things for an hour with actual experts.

So, I send them money and write my Congressman about restoring funding so they don't have to beg so much.

And I still trash garbage like Alternet which has a terrible signal to noise ratio.