Saturday, October 27, 2012

Mind Control by DecodeDC

posted by Erik

While I'm not a huge fan of NPR, I found this this audio interesting. Its from an ex-NPR host, Andrea Seabrook, who left NPR to do her own thing called "Decode DC."
"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.”
“We need to stop coddling lawmakers, stop buying their red team, blue team narrative and ask harder questions of them.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79998.html#ixzz2AZHMOuxr
I have no faith nor hope in politics, but I like to drop in now and then to confirm or revel in my faithlessness. May the Social Dilemma continue...





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