law abiding citizens. moscow s advance in eastern ukraine is continuing, russian backed forces are getting more ground close to a strategic town in northeastern donbas. and are close to encircling several important cities. this governor has warned that ukrainian forces may have to retreat to avoid being captured. that is it for me. my headlines at the top of the hour. my headlines at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome to the media show. we are going to talk about partygate in this week s edition because sue gray s report or investigation into what happened in downing street during various lockdowns is now out. the prime minister has been responding, the media, of course, is covering it. and we are going to be exploring the role the media has played in this story from its beginning in early december, all the way through to this week of the report coming out. but before we get to that, we are also going to speak to anneka rice because the ve
journalism. i d also like to talk about beer gate. that s the story involving keir starmer and his alleged antics in durham. on the one hand, we got the daily mirror, which basically as you say, broke the party gate story. and on the other hand we ve got the daily mail which pursued the beer gate story for weeks without anybody really taking any much notice. and it seems to me a good example of how the partisan press can work very well in a democratic way. a lots of people say, well, the press is to partisan and too extreme, we need more evenhanded, more fair minded newspapers. but actually, it was only because the daily mirror so hated borisjohnson that it went after the story with such energy. and it was only because the mail had similar feelings about keir starmer that it slogged away at that story for weeks or even longer before the rest of the