I think normalization of the ridiculous is easier because American citizens have evolved through training to ignore inconvenient truth in favor of personal happy meals to remain functional.
We have Founding Fathers who were not plantation owners with slaves, but men of means. We didn’t slaughter the indigenous peoples during a rapacious period of growth and greed, we underwent a necessary expansion.
We aren’t overlorded by a capitalist caste of 1% or less that owns 90% the wealth and encourages a system that treats citizens of color and less means in a way reminiscent of those slaves and indigenous, but rather we’re enterprising people who pull ourselves up by our bootstraps with rugged individualism.
tl;dr
The media is just another entity with a conscience papered-over with dollars.