From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is away this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

For 14 years, Andrea Seabrook covered the United States Congress for NPR, and now she won't.

Frustrated with partisan gridlock and the daily competitive imperative for sound bites over substance,

Seabrook has chucked her job to run a project called Decode DC, a website she intends to devote

to depth, substance context, and all the other journalistic ideals obscured by the obsession

on the day's scripted talking points. She gave an interview to the

website Politico this week in which she outlined her reasons for calling it quits, and some of

those reasons are just horrifying. Andrea, welcome to the show. Thanks. Glad to be here. So if I

understand this correctly, you're mad as hell and you're just not going to take it anymore.

Yes, you could say it that way.

I suppose the most attention-grabbing line was being lied to every day.

Yeah.

Who's lying to you about what and why?

Well, when I say I'm lied to, this is not a situation where there's yellow cake uranium kind of lies.

The lies that I'm talking about are just the complete and total disingenuousness of almost everything that's said all day long in the U.S. Capitol.

Can you give me an example of a story that you filed where you just want to say? said all day long in the U.S. Capitol.

Can you give me an example of a story that you filed where you just wanted to, you know, go home and shower afterwards?

When the Republicans first regained power in the House of Representatives at the start of 2011,

we could see this fiscal wreck that was coming at us.

And in the very first stories of 2011, I started to describe this wreck coming,

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