I digested it and what I got out of it is that you must be about 15 years-old.
If reality was shown on the TV, America would crumble. That's why we can't see things like the Collateral Murder video, this video, or this video, testimony that US soldiers often engage in "sport killing" in Iraq, or the tens of thousands of other videos and documents that incriminate the USG, which are often classified for decades for "national security reasons." Documents that remain classified go back at least until 1941, making it pretty clear that the only reason we can't see them is not because the information is still operationally relevant, but rather because the information would make the US look like the bad guy. In other words, the only way in which such documents could possibly still remain classified for "national security reasons" is if their content is so vile that, upon reading them, the people might rise up and seek to replace the federal government.
(The first linked video is graphic. I shouldn't need to say this since
people are supposed to be at least 18 to register, but there it is.)
Even when it comes to things that are openly known (though mainstream media almost always denies their accuracy), we cannot we talk about how many people the US has killed in Iraq alone over the past 20 years: 2+ million. Such things cannot be discussed on the television because if they are, you have things like 60 Minutes interviews where the US Ambassador to the UN says that she believes US sanctions, which killed 1,000,000 Iraqis (500,000 of them children) from 1990-1996 (date of the interview,) were "worth it." Reality, therefore, is strictly prohibited from mainstream American media.
Although the fact that we sold Saddam chemical weapons is mentioned at times, it is not mentioned that we did so while he was engaged in an offensive, illegal, unprovoked invasion of Iran -- a war which killed over 500,000 Iranians. Also unmentioned is the fact that we sank Iran's navy for Saddam. Iran's crime? Fighting US hegemony by usurping their US puppet government, installed via CIA coup in 1953 -- unmentionable, of course.
Also unable to be mentioned is the fact that we told him, in July 1990, that his border
dispute with Kuwait (what sparked his August 1990 invasion) was "not our business"
and that we would not interfere if he were to invade. Also not
mentioned is the fact that the US government did not disclose this fact
when making its case to invade Iraq in 1990/1991, nor is it mentioned
that almost every single piece of "evidence" used as part of a
justification of our Jan 1991 invasion was completely and utterly false, which the
government knew, but the government used it anyways.
The fact that it is literally impossible that Saddam was the one that had gassed the Kurds is also unmentionable. Also unmentionable is the fact that, even if it had been him that had gassed the Kurds, Turkey has killed roughly twice as many Kurds as Saddam but is considered the US' "ally in the war on terror."
The fact that we funded the Indonesian military in their invasion and
occupation of East Timor (~200,000 dead) cannot be discussed, nor can
our longstanding policies of supporting ruthless governments (so long as they are friendly to Washington; one such example is another one of our "allies in the war on terror," Uzbekistan, where some have had their fingernails pulled out and been boiled alive [link 1, 2]; WARNING: LINK #1 FEATURES PICTURES OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS), nor our oppression of several South American countries, which we turned into banana republics through the use of, amongst other means, death squads.
Pretty much every single facet of US foreign policy is "not suitable" for television, and furthermore, certain people are not allowed on television because they are simply thought of as being too effective at arguing against US foreign policy; one of the more prominent ones being Norman Finkelstein, who has never been allowed on American television. Chomsky is allowed on perhaps once a year on some sort of cable access show that only 5,000 will watch.
I'd agree that it would be nice to see reality on television, but it is wrong to believe that it would somehow improve the reputation of the US, or at least our government. While it might help the reputation of the average American citizen, it would, on the other hand, destroy the credibility of the USG and only bolster the Italian woman's position.