2024 in review from ABC, NBC, Vox, Google, and Time for New Year's Eve

Happy New Year's Eve! I say my farewells to 2024 beginning with ABC News summarizing The biggest news stories of the year: ABC News' 2024 year in review.

ABC News recaps the biggest headlines and moments of the year.

This video won out over the next one, 2024 Year in Review: Presidential election, Trump, drones, severe weather, brat summer, and more from NBC News because I liked the preview image more.

Rewinding 2024 with the ultimate mashup of the year’s major events.

The main omission the ABC News viewers noted was their video not mentioning the earthquake in New Jersey and New York. NBC News made up for it. Both videos also exemplified "It's not just news value that's driving it," which I shared most recently in Local news coverage of marching bands in the 2024 Macy's Parade for Thanksgiving. Both videos showcased Disney animated features, Moana 2 for ABC News and Inside Out 2 for NBC News. Inside Out 2 is the number one movie of the year, so NBC News would have been remiss in not mentioning it, but Moana 2 is still in theaters. Since ABC is a subsidiary of Disney, it's in the parent company's interest to promote it. The same is true of Wicked, an NBCUniversal production. Ah, capitalism and media consolidation!

Next, the video with the most comprehensive description, Vox recounting 2024, in 4 minutes.

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2024 saw over 60 elections worldwide, many of which were marked with controversy. It was undoubtedly a divisive year both within and along borders. The war in Ukraine is now in its third year. Syrian rebels toppled the Assad regime after years of fighting. South Korea erupted into chaos after the prime minister declared martial law and was subsequently impeached. In the United States, President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed VP Kamala Harris, who ultimately lost to Donald Trump.

Despite the tumultuous, seemingly never-ending wave of current events people still found escape and unity in the Olympics, Brat summer, and a rambunctious pygmy hippo.

2024 had much of the world voting for change. Onward, to 2025 where we will find out what it means.

Normally, the video description would have been enough for me to place this first, but I didn't want to give the re-election of convicted criminal Donald Trump and especially the assassination attempt any more attention than necessary.

I'm continuing with a retrospective that driven by the users, not filtered through professional expert news judgment, Google — Year in Search 2024, although it's still self-promotion in the corporation's interest.

This year, we're celebrating the Breakout Searches of 2024. From iconic performances, to history-making breakthroughs, see the moments that shaped our year in ways we didn't see coming.

That was uplifting in ways the other retrospectives were not, even the look back at celebrities who left us this year. Speaking of which, I'm closing out the videos with TIME's In Memoriam: A Tribute to Those We've Lost in 2024.

A tribute to some of the noteworthy people who died in 2024.

RIP, Jimmy Carter.

I conclude by linking to Jon Swift Roundup 2024, "The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves" at Vagabond Scholar.  I submitted John Oliver examines Clarence Thomas and makes him an offer on 'Last Week Tonight', the most read entry of the year, and Batocchio linked to it. It makes for a good summary of the year as recorded by liberal bloggers.

That completes 2024's blogging. Stay tuned for the 2025 version of Some of my favorite bands at the Rose Parade for New Year's Day to begin next year.