Opinion
Questions reporters should have asked about the Buffett donation
1 September 2006
Alliance magazine
Warren Buffett’s recent announcement of his intention to give most of his fortune (some $30 billion) to the Gates Foundation generated a spate of laudatory press coverage. While few would disagree that Mr Buffett’s donation – the largest in history we were repeatedly reminded – is a magnificent act of charity, reporters covering the story seemed so filled with awe and admiration that they failed to ask important questions about the implications of this enormous transfer of philanthropic funds.
