{"id":16600,"date":"2012-08-23T11:09:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16600"},"modified":"2012-08-23T11:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:09:53","slug":"i-am-as-a-reporter-in-the-capitol-lied-to-every-day-all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/23\/i-am-as-a-reporter-in-the-capitol-lied-to-every-day-all-day\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am, as a reporter in the Capitol, lied to every day, all day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0812\/79998.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a>, the story of a former NPR congressional reporter who finally had enough of the political lies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After 14 years at National Public Radio, Andrea Seabrook left in July and, to hear her talk about her experience covering Capitol Hill, it\u2019s clear that she had one takeaway: It\u2019s damn frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized that there is a part of covering Congress, if you\u2019re 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,\u201d Seabrook told POLITICO. \u201cAnd 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. \u2026 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. \u2026 To me, as a reporter, everything is spin.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had any contact with politicians, you very quickly learn that they are always trying to spin: it&#8217;s just that some of them are naturally better at it than others, and some get help from the media to make them seem better at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Politico, the story of a former NPR congressional reporter who finally had enough of the political lies: After 14 years at National Public Radio, Andrea Seabrook left in July and, to hear her talk about her experience covering Capitol Hill, it\u2019s clear that she had one takeaway: It\u2019s damn frustrating. \u201cI realized that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,28,53,13],"tags":[698,51,101],"class_list":["post-16600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-congress","tag-pr","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4jK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16601,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions\/16601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}