http://philanthropy.com/article/America-s-Press-Needs-to/148183/America’s news media are failing to focus a critical eye on philanthropy, especially on wealthy donors. A decade ago, major newspapers like the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times regularly uncovered the inappropriate activities of foundations and large wealthy donors. But today journalists have become, for the most part, relatively uncritical, almost supine, cheerleaders of American philanthropy.
A painful reminder of this lack of skepticism came a few weeks ago when CBS’s "60 Minutes" repeated a piece it had aired last year about the Giving Pledge, the effort by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade fellow billionaires to donate at least half of their fortunes during their lifetimes.
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Stephanie Doty
Discouraging NP Dysfunction
August 7, 2014
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Discouraging NP Dysfunction
August 7, 2014
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
