From outside it sure looks like reporters and politicians and prominent lobbyists are too close to each other, chummy in fact, a set if you will — a view solidified by the knowledge the government has extended close to half a billion dollars to Canada’s media. To ask embarrassing questions of the membership of a club (this would be the Ottawa Press Gallery) whose only task is (supposed to be) asking hard questions of the government which is richly subsidizing so many of them. what an impertinence. Call the cops. Shut their office. Out with them.