Ex-NPR Hill reporter: Lied to daily ( Archived) (7)

After 14 years at National Public Radio, Andrea Seabrook left in July and, to hear her talk about her experience covering Capitol Hill, it’s clear that she had one takeaway: It’s damn frustrating.

“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,” Seabrook told POLITICO. “And I feel like the real story of Congress right now is very much removed from any of that, from the sort of theater of the policy debate in Congress, and it has become such a complete theater that none of it is real. … I feel like I am, as a reporter in the Capitol, lied to every day, all day. There is so little genuine discussion going on with the reporters. … To me, as a reporter, everything is spin.”

I hear her!

I said, I hear her!!!!!

It's good for her that she still has her Freedom and she is no longer tied to the guild to report what and how they tell her to report.

Being a puppet reporter is the only way for advancement in the controlled field of MSM.

I would have a desire that Ms. Seabrook would watch Congress meetings and let us hear from her heart, from HER point of view. She is frustrated because she feels Repressed and rightfully so.
I imagine she will probably sit down for awhile and write a book, exposing the drawbacks and control in journalism like so many who have gone before her have done.

Whatever her adventure becomes, I stand behind her choices, as a reader of the Free Press!

Kudos for her!
She's Not gonna take it anymore!!

HL

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My take was EVERYTHING in DC is a lie! All we get is spin. she was saying it's time for them to get tarred and feathered and run out on a rail. Being a reporter she must watch what she says or her career ends when they shuffle you completely out of the loop.