US Mainstream Media
Missed Biggest News Story of 2024
Walt Zlotow / West Suburban Peace Coalition

(December 14, 2024) — As the year winds down, US media reviews the biggest news stories of the year.

But in selecting the biggest story of 2024, US media missed it completely.

Was it Trump’s improbable reelection after 4 years in the political wilderness? Nope.

Was it Trump’s avoiding imprisonments for committing dozens of felonies including an attempted coup to overturn his 7 million vote loss to Joe Biden? Nada.

Two hurricanes in 2 weeks that devastated the Southeast? No way.

How bout the unprecedented assassination of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson which triggered a national discussion of our broken health care system? Faggedaboudit.

The lightening HTS insurgency which toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad within 2 weeks? Try again.

The biggest story of 2024 was America enabling the Israeli genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Throughout ’24, America has supplied over $20 billion sending over 50,000 tons of bombs to obliterate habitable life in Gaza’s 139 square miles. Over 100,000 already dead with no resources left for the remaining Palestinians to survive. Nearly every Palestinian child believes death is imminent according to recent reporting.

But one could watch mainstream media 24/7 and not hear one word about US participation in the most grotesque genocide this century. Mainstream news has fallen in line with the Biden administration narrative that $20 billion and 50,000 tons of weapons, along with US vetoes of UN resolutions to end the genocide, are simply for Israeli self-defense.

There is no reporting on the horrific conditions in Gaza; the obliteration of all schools, universities, hospitals, livable housing, potable water, food supplies. Media ignores the wanton slaughter of their journalistic brethren trying to cover the genocide along with hundreds of aid workers seeking to keep starving Palestinians alive.

Tragically, media censure of the ongoing US enabled genocide is the one issue upon with both conservative and progressive media concur. Genocide and US lockstep participation in it is the issue that date not speak its name.

The US government is fully supportive in word and deed of the most monstrous war crimes imaginable. But when it comes to this inhumane policy… US mainstream media cannot even imagine it, much less report on it.

Walt Zlotow
West Suburban Peace Coalition
Glen Ellyn IL