The Biggest Scandal in America Is Its Corporate Controlled MediaEric Zuesse This coup was carried out for the White House by one of Ukraines two racist-fascist, or nazi, political parties, whose founder and leader still controls Ukraine though not officially, even these many months after his coup, and which nazi party has been up to their elbows since then in a genocidal policy to exterminate the people in the region of Ukraine that had voted approximately 90% for the man whom Obama and those nazis overthrew in February. (Click onto that link, and to the more-detailed evidence thats linked to there, in order to see the ultimate documentations of this entire horrific history, because it is history now, even though the American public were never informed about it while it was news while and when it was happening, which it still is.) And how many Americans know that one of the two main suspects in the bringing-down of the Malaysian MH17 airliner over Ukraine on July 17th has been given veto-power over the report that is to be issued from the official investigation of the black boxes and other evidence in the case? The ongoing hiding of all of this from the American public is perhaps even more stunning to the present writer than is the bloody American policy (includingin it) itself. Virtually all of the news editors and producers the news executives, in Americas press know, and have known all along, that these things are the case, because theyve been receiving many news-submissions on them, with full and entirely credible documentation each time, ever since February, and have not made any of these facts public; theyve not published this reality, when itwasnews, though they are supposed to benews-organizations. I know this because I am one of the many independent investigative journalists who has been reporting in detail on these matters, throughout this time-period, and whose reports have been submitted to virtually all U.S.news media mainstream and alternative news, liberal and conservative news, Republican and Democratic news. And, with the exception of only about a half-dozen obscurebut admirably authentic news-sites on the Internet (which is just a small fraction of the alternative news sites), all of this solidly documented information (just click on the links and youll see it documented there) has been intentionally withheld, from the American public, by virtually the entirety of the U.S. news media. Was the rigid control over a nations press more rigid and more universal in the Soviet Union, or in Nazi Germany, than is the case in todays United States? One should not simplyassumethat it was, or that it wasnt, but instead recognize how extremely far from being a democracy todays United States has, in fact,become. This is the most shocking realization of all, because its the most suppressed news of all news about the news-suppression by the news-media. Regarding that charge of news-suppression in America: among the news media to which these news-reports have been regularly submitted and yet never published, have also been specialized ones,such as fair.org, mediamatters.org, and Foreign Policymagazine; and yet even they refuse to report these realities about U.S. foreign policy and its cover-ups, and about the controlled U.S. news media inneitherspecialized field (neither press-reviews, nor international policy) is it being reported. And, of course, its not broadcast in any U.S. national media. Thats how dire the condition of what used to be American democracy has now become. The biggest news-story of all is thus the one that is, and that will inevitably be, the most suppressed news-story of all: the news-suppressionitself. It extends from the major news-media to the alternative and even to the specialized news-media. Edward Snowden, the former CIA and NSA employee and then contractor who went public about the U.S. Governments violating the 4th Amendment and other U.S. Constitutional provisions regarding Americans right to privacy and so forth,addressed onOctober 20th, a class at Harvard Law School, and he spoke about the impossibility of democracy to exist if there is not informed consent from the public of what the Government is doing, and of what the authentic aims of the Government are in what it is doing and intends to do. He necessarily had to speak from an undisclosed location, because the U.S. Government wants to imprison him (if not worse). He raised the extremely serious question as to whether, and the extent to which, a government can lie to its public and still be a democracy. Thats the question. How can the public have a government representing informed consent, if the news media are constantly, and systematically, lying about the most important things, and covering up that governments worst, most heinous, crimes? Yet, this is what Americans have today. The United States is thus no longer a model for any country except for a dictatorship. How likely is it that Americas press will let the American public know this now-established fact? Somethings wrong and its not people such as Edward Snowden. For yet another of the many examples of U.S. news-suppression, clickhere. This interview, 13 years after the news-event, was relegated to C-Span, not aired on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, or cable-news channels. This article first appeared at TheAntiMedia.org. Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, ofTheyre Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and ofCHRISTS VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity. 