For what feels like quite a long time now, the British media seems to have made an apparent Christmas party at No. 10 Downing Street, residence of the British Prime Minister, in 2020 the most important news story. You get this impression from the fact that it is regularly the first news story on TV news shows, and front page story of the newspapers. However, whilst it obviously does reflect badly on the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and any colleagues involved, and, if accurate, shows them to be hypocrites- should this really be the main news item? And this happened a year ago: if it was THAT important and ground-breaking, why wasn't it revealed at the time, rather than a year later? It seems that the timing was deliberately picked to prioritise dramatic affect over getting an important story in the public eye as soon as possible.
Of course it's an important feature of a free country that the press can scrutinise the government and hold it to account, but surely it's overkill when it's the top news story every day. Rather than point scoring against the government, and focusing on a petty matter and foolish error of judgment, the media can quickly prioritise other matters of more national/international significance.
