By Walt Zlotow
The horrific murder of two Israeli Embassy workers by a Chicago man received massive coverage in our two daily newspapers.
The Sun-Times had a stark front page followed by six full pages. The Tribune had a cover story spread over two pages and long editorial condemning the killings. Understandable.
What is not understandable is that both papers haven’t covered the U.S.-enabled genocide in Gaza the same way.
When the largely buried stories are published, the genocide is sanitised as the “war on Hamas.” The number of Palestinians obliterated daily by U.S. bombs dropped from U.S. planes is rarely mentioned.
There is no editorial pushback against the U.S. making the genocide possible by forking over $20 billion for weapons. Without U.S. weaponry, Israel couldn’t carry out its genocidal, ethnic cleansing campaign.
Newspapers have a responsibility to inform readers of the grotesque government policies that kill thousands, inflict starvation and deny medical care to defenceless people cleared from their homeland.
More importantly their public mission is to demand our government stop forthwith.
On both critical journalistic missions, the Sun-Times and Tribune are AWOL.
Walt Zlotow, Glen Ellyn
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This imbalance makes me so angry.
Newspapers have colluded with power from the year dot. Magnates and their editors cozy up to governments, do their bidding, often omit to report the truth, often report falsities. And, as always and forever, the masses passively accept the narrative… uncritically accepting that because ‘it’s in the news’, it must be correct.