NPR's Andrea Seabrook fed up with all the lies quits

[salvorhardin]

Last edited Sat Aug 25, 2012, 11:05 AM - Edit history (1)

This is a story I completely missed this week. NPR's Congressional reporter of a decade, Andrea Seabrook, got tired of repeating politicians' lies every day so she resigned.

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"I realized that there is a part of covering Congress, if you’re doing daily coverage, that is actually sort of colluding with the politicians themselves because so much of what I was doing was actually recording and playing what they say or repeating what they say.

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We need to stop coddling lawmakers, stop buying their red team, blue team narrative and ask harder questions of them."

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79998.html

She left to found DecodeDC, a blog and podcast where she plans to do reporting that, "will decipher Washington's Byzantine language and procedure, sweeping away what doesn't matter so you can focus on what does."

You can also listen to an interview on WNYC's On The Media with Andrea Seabrook about why she quit her job of 14 years at NPR, what's so wrong about political reporting today, and what her hopes are for DecodeDC.





[div style="background-color:#ffa;"]On edit: Here's a lengthy interview with Andrea Seabrook on NPR too:
[div class="excerpt" style="background-color: #ffa !important;"] "Americans, real people, you have bought this line that we are on two teams in this country. There is a red team, and there is a blue team. When we've gotten to the point where your partisan stripe comes before your American citizenship, our shared culture, our shared values in this country, then we have a real problem at the nation — national, federal level. We vote for people who are going in there to fight red or blue instead of put that stuff down at the end of the election cycle and work on real problems that need to be solved."


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