Eric Zuesse is an historian and the author, most recently, of “They’re Not Even Close: the Democratic vs Republican Records 1910-2010” and of “Christ’s ventriloquists: The event that created Christianity” (see: http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse041214.htm ).
Eric Zuesse re suppression of news re the US-backed coup in the Ukraine and the MH17 atrocity (2014): “Was the rigid control over a nation's press more rigid and more universal in the Soviet Union, or in Nazi Germany, than is the case in today's United States? One should not simply assume that it was, or that it wasn't, but instead recognize how extremely far from being a democracy today's United States has, in fact, become . This is the most shocking realization of all, because it's 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 as fair.org , mediamatters.org , and Foreign Policy magazine; 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 — in neither specialized field (neither press-reviews, nor international policy) is it being reported. And, of course, it's not broadcast in any U.S. national media. That's 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-suppression itself . It extends from the major ‘news'-media to the alternative and even to the specialized ‘news'-media… He {Edward Snowden] 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. That's 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 government's 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 America's press will let the American public know this now-established fact? Something's wrong — and it's not people such as Edward Snowden. ” [1].
[1]. Eric Zuesse , “The Biggest Scandal In America Is Its Controlled Press”, Countercurrents, 4 December, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse041214.htm .