Mainstream media love to present themselves as the “fourth estate,” guardians of truth and accountability. But when genocide is reduced to phrases like “conflict,” “complex issue,” or “war,” the effect is not to inform—it is to sedate. Labeling genocide as “war” is particularly insidious. It sells the illusion of balance: two sides, evenly matched, engaged in some fair contest.
This is not neutrality. It is complicity. And history will record it as such. Because accountability cannot remain abstract. To preserve truth for the future, we must name the media corporations that looked away and, equally, the journalists who gave euphemism the weight of fact.
