Just a hunch that the Contra Costa Times won't be doing investigative reporting on the Gates Foundation anytime soon:

Several organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, lent a total of $350-million to MediaNews Group for its purchase of four newspapers: the Contra Costa Times; The Herald, in Monterey County; the San Jose Mercury News; and the Pioneer Press, in St. Paul, reports the Associated Press.

Program-related investment, anyone?