In general I agree with this article. However, I really don't think that the average American wants to see footage of what American supported groups are doing overseas.
For example, I mentioned before how when my parents - whom are the most typical average brainwashed American - came to visit here, in Morocco, they were appalled that the news shown these types of images. In fact, my stepmother said "It's no wonder why everyone hates us- if these are the images they see all the time." Notice that she didn't acknowledge the fact that the US foreign policy backs these types of governments etc. Her issue was that all the news contained was images of the US fighting. And that they didn't show anything 'good' about the 'good ole USA'.
Another example, is that here I am a group leader for a company called Intrepid Travel. However, in my spare time, I was part of a film which we made here about extremism (which we are hoping gets selected at Cannes this year
). In this film I play the leader of a group of Taliban. So, this is naturally a point of conversation with the groups I lead, once it comes out that I was in a movie. One time I had another typical white upper-middle class husband and wife in my group from Texas. When I was talking about this subject, that is the news media in the US, and how it is extremely biased and never shows the perspective of the 'enemy', I mentioned while during our research for our film, we downloaded all the Taliban/Al-Qaeda videos and watched them. And that they released actual legit videos that explain what they are doing and why they are doing it. And then questioned her as to why we never see such videos on the TV, or even heard that they exist? Her response was flat and stern. She said "I don't want to watch something like that. And I don't thing that they should be shown on TV."
So there lies the problem, and this is probably my issue with America in general, even though I am an American. That is that the general masses want to continue to live in a world where they are fed media images that only promote the USA as being the 'greatest country in the world' - because they believe this 110% and this is not to be questioned.
Another example of this type of thinking is that when I got married - to an American with German heritage- my parents where dumbfounded that she would want to live in another country other than the US. They literally said "Why would you want to live someplace else?".
I could list a hundred examples just from first hand experiences as well but I am sure that you get the point.