I wasn't dodging, just averse to writing a long, tedious post explaining something that's clear cut. As an American you may not be fully aware how widely distributed your media is outside the US - particularly in the English speaking world.
USA TODAY is sold on Irish newsstands. The same holds for Time and Newsweek. The NYT and Washington Post are freely available online, as is The Los Angeles Times.
As for American television, I've got a full Sky package with over a hundred channels. Both CBS and NBC evening news programs have been broadcast for decades. The 24 hour news channels are there - CNN, FOX, and Bloomberg. Plus CNBC. Kodi was a significant addition to the list: it had all the American networks, although I haven't checked it recently.
American issues also get extensive coverage in the British and Irish media.
Factor in the ubiquity of American fictional TV. Minority quotas, the ideological rules governing the participation and depiction of black and female characters are visible there. The American cultural debate is naked and obvious. Quite similar ideological impositions are to be found in Irish and British television.
It's possible to form a clear, if limited, impression of the American zeitgeist without setting foot on US soil.
