UK Media Turns On Government: An alva Media Case StudyCase Study UK Media Turns On Government 2 Intro Among the many seismic shifts propelled by the coronavirus pandemic was that of the treatment of the UK government by its national media. As the ravages of Covid-19 were felt across the country, the government response, played out in daily briefings from No.10, came under intense scrutiny. Not since World War II had the pronouncements of a Prime Minister been hung upon by so many. In this, the media played a major role, disseminating in real time each new set of restrictions, data and diagrams, helping people both to understand how the government was handling the virus – and to form opinions of those actions. As the pandemic played out, the government’s harshest critics emerged f

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