Probably the most censored story of the past few years (and certainly in my lifetime) is the cancer rate in Fallujah, Iraq being worse than in Hiroshima.
As the London Independent points out:
Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.
This is confirmed in the study "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009" which has catastrophic results of four-fold increase in all cancers and a 14-fold increase in childhood cancers.
And of course, with it comes the ominous specter of chemical warfare with things such as depleted uranium used for increasing density in bullets. As the Dr. Bubsy the co-author points out, "My guess is that they used a new weapon against buildings to break through walls and kill those inside."
The US media's response
There hasn't been any, the media is acting to silence the matter and not hold power accountable.
What Can We Do About It?
Contact them! It took an organized campaign to get the newspapers to cover Gary Webb's expose of the CIA-backed Contras funneling crack into the United States. As the Columbia Journalism Review notes "It was public pressure that essentially forced the media to address Webb's allegations."
Here are the following contacts for the media, (be polite!) and remember, every email or letter makes a difference.
EDIT: Updated Email List:
evening@cbsnews.com
60m@cbsnews.com
news-tips@nytimes.com
ombudsman@washpost.com
nightline@abcnews.com
rachel@msnbc.com
nightly@nbc.com
today@nbc.com
frontline@pbs.org
ombudsman@npr.org
readers.representative@latimes.com
metro@sfchronicle.com
info@ap.org
newstips@upi.org
CBS News
524 W. 57 St., New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-975-4321
Fax: 212-975-1893
CBS Evening News: evening@cbsnews.com
60 Minutes II: 60m@cbsnews.com
The New York Times
620 8th Ave., New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-556-1234
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-862-0300
Letters to the Editor (for publication): letters@nytimes.com
Write to the news editors: news-tips@nytimes.com
The Washington Post
Phone: 202-334-6000
Ombudsman: 202-334-7582
Fax: 202-334-5075
Letters to the Editor: letters@washpost.com
Ombudsman: ombudsman@washpost.com
Associated Press
450 West 33rd St., New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-621-1500
Fax: 212-621-1723