Longtime readers of this blog already know about and care or don't care about the Gates Foundation's enhanced role in what's politely called advocacy work, but what about the role of independent and mainstream blogs in mainstream news reporting, and what about the use of the tax code to further political goals? Sam Dillon's NYT article on the Gates Foundation's much-expanded advocacy work (Behind Grass-Roots School Advocacy), along with the figures and annotations accompanying the 990 form notes that a revealing Gates Foundation memo appeared on Valerie Strauss's
