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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and now the Joe Biden presidency.

We will be looking at how a 78-year-old president will change America and we'll be asking if normalcy, which is what he promised to bring,

has returned to American politics.

The answer, of course, is no.

I'm joined today by Josh Glancy, who is special correspondent for the Sunday Times,

and we're going to be asking what's wrong with the American media.

Josh, you wrote a beautiful diary in this month's edition of The Spectator World,

in which you describe your disillusionment, I think it's fair to say,

with the American media. You came to America as a journalist with starry eyes, I think, about

what the American media is like. And you're, I think, fair to say, quite disappointed in

what you saw. Yeah, I think maybe fair to say, quite disappointed in what you saw.

Yeah, I think maybe Americans don't always realize

if you're an aspiring journalist growing up in Britain,

aspiring intellectual or, you know, literator or whatever,

the American media is something you obsess over.

I mean, for me growing up, I would read the New York Review of Books and I felt like it was my, you know, golden ticket to the great

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