News that made it into the mainstream media and news that didn't.

Made it:

Yad VaShem, an organization dedicated to Holocaust education, has announced that it will set up a YouTube account featuring videos in Farsi to teach Iranians about the historical fact of what happened to six million Jews, and a host of others, in Europe during the 1940s. I think this is a very appropriate response to Mr. Ahmadinejad's denial of the holocaust. It will allow Iranians themselves to evaluate the claims of Holocaust deniers with credible information from an organization with a reputation of doing excellent work in this field. I hope Iranians take this seriously as it could make life in the neighbourhood of the Middle East more safe for everyone who lives there.

Didn't make it:

Evidently poverty has doubled in the world since 1970. Although I'm hardly the type who thinks that every story that doesn't make it into the mainstream media represents some kind of vast conspiracy, it's not hard to guess why we're not hearing about this from all of the major news outlets in the world. World leaders in political and corporate spheres want us to believe that the prosperity most Westerners enjoy is spreading across the globe, largely because of their efforts. I was expecting the article to opine concerning why the number of poor people have increased. I'm glad it didn't because in the majority of articles I read from the non-mainstream media, the blame is more often than not placed at the feet of political and/or corporate bodies from the West. Be that as it may, at least some of the burden ought to be shouldered by the governments of the so-called "poor" nations themselves who almost universally taken on programs of planned economies (now you'd never read that in the mainstream media, would you?).