What's Wrong With The Media?

It's a silly question, I know, but I still have to ask it, "What's wrong with the media?"  There are a whole series of reports in recent days about Israel and Hamas trading fire; missiles come towards Israel from Gaza and the Israelis bomb military installations in response.  There are also many articles about whether or not the Palestinians/Israeli peace talks can resume (the simple answer is no).  Then there are articles about some English historian who turned down a prize in history given by an Israeli foundation because of "political reasons".  It's not that these stories are unimportant; they're are worth reading.  It is, rather, that there is an enormous story about news that threatens the lives of over half million people in Syria, and the media is nearly silent about it.  What has happened is that the forces of Iran and the terrorists at Hezbollah have captured most of the land east of Damascus in Syria which has been used to grow food for the opposition holding out on the east side of that city.  These opposition fighters are not ISIS or as Qaeda fighters.  They are Sunni Moslems who rose up against Assad when he started killing people who opposed his rule.  Some 600,000 people in the eastern half of Damascus and its suburbs are part of this opposition, and they are encircled by the forces supporting Assad.  Now, the Assad side has taken the vast bulk of the farmland in the area and cut off the food supply for over half a million people.  The result will be mass starvation.

So on the one hand we have the usual stories about Israel and the Palestinians which get major coverage.  On the other hand, we have a development that threatens death by starvation on an almost unimaginable scale, and the media ignores it.  What is going on here?  Just how brain dead are the editors and reporters?