NPR Host: WHCD 'Apotheosis Of Everything That Is Wrong With Journalism And Government'

NPR On the Media co-host Bob Garfield lit into the cozy relationship between the press and the politicians they're supposed to be covering on this Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN. CNN generally does a really terrible job of navel-gazing when it comes to critiquing the problems with their own network, but no one was spared during this segment, including them.

After discussing Larry Wilmore's appearance, and showing a montage of some of his criticism of the media and the so-called "journalists" who were sitting in the room, and the fact that the press attending these events hasn't improved their access to the Obama administration, or made them any better on FOIA requests, or stopped them from prosecuting actual journalists, Garfield responded to Stelter's question about whether there is any potential benefit down the line to members of the press attending these sort of events.

STELTER: What about the argument that when you're at these events, when you're maybe seeing sources, that it will pay off down the line, that those relationships may actually improve access and improve reporting, not that night, but weeks or months later?

GARFIELD: Oh, because I have a social relationship with...

STELTER: That's the idea. Yes.

GARFIELD: But -- except that presumes that there really is any benefit down the line.

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