I’m from the US with no significant connection to Britain, but I started following during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic because it was comforting to me to have a source for down-the-middle, fact-based reporting. I never found it totally unbiased but it had a unique skew compared to US news sources, which is always helpful. I continued to follow for another five years or so because I found the outside perspective on American politics fascinating. The last few times I’ve tuned in, it’s been impossible to listen to a whole episode without right-wing drivel. For that reason I’m unfollowing. Disappointing!

Is NoT politics. It is PRICE GOUGING!!!!!

Just decided to check this out. Trumps SOTU speech was a pack of lies smothered in bs. You can’t middle-of-the-road this stuff anymore. I won’t be listening. Was looking for UK perspective but this isn’t for me.

I listened to the mid term election episode today as my first listen. I have only witnessed such terrible journalism on Fox News and NewsMax. The restatement of the Administrations lies was unchecked throughout this episode. Really disappointed in the BBC for this one. Not sure I’ll ever be able to listen to these two hosts again. As Trump would say: SAD.

Letting Trump bootlickers spew lies unchecked is not the flex you think it is. Go find your spines and get back to proper journalism.

Gosh, I’m becoming a little bit more disgruntled with who your interviewing and your lack of staying defensive of middle of the road tactics fair and legal approaches. This dude today no what he’s saying that Trump agreed to do when he was nominated and then won the presidency is not what’s happening today particularly in Minneapolis. One of you is sort of standing up to him, but I would really love to hear all of you standing up to him. This is not OK and you’re gonna lose me as a listener if you don’t stick up for what’s ethical and moral I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on what’s happening is not right in regards to humane tactics and you know this.

The conclusions they come to are absurd. They selectively skip facts that don’t fit their left wing agenda. The BBC are clearly a joke and only voice questions and derive answers that reflect their deluded view of the world. Shame.

These podcasters were once willing to honestly report on Trump’s many injustices. Since Trump sued the BBC, they have bent the knee to their king across the sea. Now it’s just bland sanewashed fluff.

This podcast is an excellent insight into how BBC got to a place where they felt justified to edit a speech that preceded the violent and polarizing matter we know as “January 6”. Now that truth has come to light, I’d like to hear from BBC. Where is the podcast about the BBCs response to their alleged hand in this?

Justin Webb is a bit of an arrogant, prejudicial person who thinks quite little of Americans and quite a lot of himself. Not a lot of nuance in his broad-strokes reporting style :/

The idea is that you are supposed to have an uninterrupted view from the Lincoln memorial to Arlington Cemetery, which was established after the American Civil War. The Trump arch would destroy that. But that’s Trump in a nutshell. And, I guess as an American, it is what we deserve.

Just listened to their G7 reporting. These podcasters are succumbing to a waning objectivity inherent in their proximity to the King Trump royal court. Please return to more analysis and less fluff.

The fact that you have people, presumably Americans, commenting here that this podcast is far too pro or anti Trump, is evidence that it is balanced in its reporting. It’s true that Trump is the topic of most recent episodes, but at the moment that’s because he’s the centre of most of what’s going on in the USA.

Used to be halfway decent, now like everything British they are just clinging to whatever scraps of relevance they wrongly perceive to credit themselves with and it is just an easy pass. BBC is really losing its chops.

Lacked a thoughtful dialogue on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election - I was surprised and disappointed that it only presented one view on why it was important while simultaneously denigrating Wisconsinites.

This is not journalism. This is a great big long Trump bashing, to the point where it is almost shameful. Whether you or I like Trump or not is not the point. What we want are facts, neutrally, clearly, and intelligently presented.

This podcast speaks so highly of Trump it’s disgusting. They don’t look at anything he does with scrutiny. People are protesting in the streets. We didn’t vote for Elon Musk.

Just more MAGA propaganda. Thanks Americacast, but we have plenty of our own compromised media outlets right here in the US. Very disappointed in the BBC for sending us this trash when we need unbiased journalism the most.

It’s helpful to get a glimpse of the US through the eyes of Britain. But much of the reporting is ethnocentric, shortsighted, and judgmental.

The presenters of this programme just can’t stop the bias. They go on and on about truth and credibility and yet absolutely fail to recognise the wholesale incompetence, corruption and abuse of power that was the Biden administration. They NEVER mention any of the lawfare, the venality, the downright lies that Biden told or the illegality and irresponsibility of their policies, such as the open border or their training of kids. They are completely captured by the liberal left, indeed they ARE the Liberal left. Now that the election is over it’s 2016 all over again for them. Everything the Trump administration does is wrong/illegal/corrupt/extreme/hard right, etc. No consideration is ever given to the effects of illegal immigration on schools, town halls, hospitals, etc. or the fact that 87% of ALL voters want illegal immigrants repatriated. This is the agenda President Trump ran and won on. He is doing what we want him to do. So reading out selected (or made up) comments from listeners along the lines of “by even covering this administration are you not also giving it legitimacy?” just shows you up. Look BBC, wake up to your own bias and arrogance and stop pretending to be genuinely reporting US politics. You’re not. You should just call yourself Libs Against Trump, it would be more accurate than “Americast”. You are NOT that

The Elon Musk gesture was the last straw. He used to make a heart gesture with two hands and reach them both out. Americast couldn’t be bothered to note this

I fell into Americast because I’ve enjoyed Marianna Springs’ other podcasts, and I truth the BBC more than just about any news-source here in the US. I’ll be honest, I’m a conservative, but one with a grave distrust of certain newer influences in the Republican Party. Suffice to say, I withdrew from GOP in 2016. Let the reader understand. This is a nice, concise capping of events here in the US, by people who are largely not invested in this me side over the other. As a result, it’s very balanced and I feel like I’m being given information I can use to do my own research.

This podcast used to be a good and fairly unbiased view of American politics, but they have swung so far left it’s unbelievable, do better.

This episode was just terrible. Thinly reported and reflecting a poor understanding of the American political scene. I will unfollow. The need for good analysis of the coming four years is greater than ever, and this is not it. Not worth the time.

I so look forward to each episode of Americast. I love your perspective and humor. You help us Americans not to take ourselves so seriously while delivering accurate reporting. Please don't stop after the election!

Shockingly ill-informed male host

*Makes podcast about America* *Insults Americans, offers biased takes, does not fact check* An insult to the BBC.

But this podcast isn’t needed. Or wanted.

I used to be a loyal listener but lately Justin’s biases seem really to be showing. I was hoping for an outside perspective but his misogyny is really turning me off. Oh and Justin Melania is the first real feminist First Lady really??? Who do you expect to swallow that?

I’m an Englishman living in The USA and have enjoyed enough of the content in this podcast to give it a weekly listen. That was the case until recently when this and many other podcasters started to speed up their audio to a point where it’s nerve wracking. No, it’s not about the playback speed we can control in the podcast app because if I slow it down to .75 then it sounds too slow and laborious. Why have so many podcasters recently decided that their audiences want to listen to the audio at a million miles per hour? I don’t get it. The world’s bonkers enough. Podcasters, CALM DOWN!

This was a decent show. The corporate bias is really showing though. To do entire podcast episodes on, “What’s going on with the Middle East and how is this effecting America?” Yet not once mentioning AIPAC or DMFI is negligent journalism. It’s all about the money in US politics and this show just treats that as a feature and not the malware. I can’t stomach listening anymore.

I appreciate America’s for it’s unbiased take on American elections. However Justin seems to be lagging behind current events sometimes. In the most recent episodes he made the claim that Kamala Harris hasn’t been doing interviews, which is not a fair criticism considering that she has been doing tons. She had an interview with Oprah, has one coming up 60 minutes, her interview on the All the Smoke Podcast was a massive hit, and she’s done scores of local news and radio interviews. All in all a good podcast, but Justin, please stop putting your foot in your mouth lol

For God’s sake, where did you get “Vaarntz” from? It’s “Vance”, like “ants”. No-one has ever called him Vaarntz. BTW, totally for Harris - but you can hardly be annoyed by Trump’s “Kamaaarla” if you mispronounce like this. Just sayin’

I can’t listen to Americast anymore — the guy sitting in London and the misinformation woman get just about everything wrong about Americans. Very annoying.

I can no longer listen to Justin & his subtle glorification of Trump. His disdain for Harris & any women in power is too evident. His fact checking is at level zero. Just call this an opinion show. It is not what one would expect from the BBC.

One of the BBC commentators seemed to not be very familiar with presidential candidate Harris’ strengths and the remarkable enthusiasm and financial support she’s inspired in her party in a very short time frame. It seemed odd and inappropriate how dismissive he was of her as a candidate. Maybe, he’s sore the conservatives got voted out in the UK?

Lately this show seems to be over chewing its meal, to tedious effect. It’s a waste to use good journalists this way.

I listen to multiple news sources. Americast is one of my favorites with its tolerant but appraising view of the U.S.

This podcast reminds me of PBS NewsHour with flare and I appreciate how you cover American news so well.

I used to enjoy this podcast until I learned about the subtle influence of certain foreign propaganda (and using a trusted brand!!). I observed how often this BBC Podcast **uses vocabulary to promote** Trump, MAGA, and the white Christian nationalist ideals trying to ruin America, while professing to be “honest” Brits. Yikes.

In a podcast criticizing Biden for uncaught errors, one Americast pundit said Obama when he meant Biden, and another pundit said Biden when she meant to say Trump. Neither caught their errors, nor did the other pundits. This is ironic considering their topic, and very sloppy. The BBC is usually better than this sloppy mess.

As a 23 year old conservative American, American media has seemed too biased for me recently. Love how this program actively critiques both parties when it is due.

Good and interesting coverage of the Iowa vote. Thanks

Really enjoy listening to this podcast. The hosts are seasoned BBC journalists with a lot of knowledge of American politics. Each week they cover the top stories at the time. They often invite guests to discuss political events and tend to stay objective, pointing out the gaffes of either of the political parties. Overall, it’s just as entertaining to listen to them as it is informative.

I feel the host doesn’t give any pushback to guests when they’re obviously spreading falsehoods. It makes it seem like the host doesn’t know what’s really going on and is taking this information as fact. As an American I really want a non-biased news outlet that will fact check things and ask hard questions instead of leaning back and nodding along.

They defended Prince Andrew before the dumb general masses were aware of the story. They covered for Jimmy Seville who was raping special needs kids in asylums. Google it. They tried to set up Tommy Robinson for daring to cover Muslim rape gangs thereby supporting said gangs. This is all documented.

Too many journalists have fallen into the laziness of punditry, both in how they discuss politics and how they train the audience to think of themselves as pundits, calling balls and strikes, as if we’re all DC-insiders. This is not a normal election and one hopes you would feel ti was your duty to educate the public on the facts of an unprecedented indictment not merely look at it through the lens of a political horserace. Mr. Webb, in particular, shamefully seemed to be a voice for the Trump supporters when he criticized the rationale behind the indictment and called it divisive. Should the US not prosecute obvious crimes? Should lawlessness become the norm so that the political horserace can continue uninterrupted? Mr. Trump pressured multiple states to send fake electors to Congress, willfully destabilizing our very system of government. The story here is the rise of a lawless autocrat who’s a coin toss away from the presidency, and the potential destruction of American democracy. Your punditry is too cute by half and out of step with the gravity of this moment.

Nice to hear the Brits view of America. The pod covers areas that are not often addressed by media here in the states. I look forward to each episode.

The interviewer was embarrassingly week and underprepared. That was an hour I will never get back.

As and American, I do not think that you could possibly understand The USa by living and working in Washington, DC. It is not a real place. I lived and worked there on both sides of the aisle for 30 years. You cannot uderstand us as some kind of monolith. You certainly can’t analyze us that was. As my students say, do better.