I think the journalists live in fear here of being made to write 200 times "I must not ask stupid questions that have already been covered in the briefing"
I wish that was the rule for all of them
I might even be able to start watching the news again
As for travel restrictions, I am afraid they have always been open to abuse, if you are prepared to lie and cheat. We had someone at work last year come back from a red country via a green one. They got stopped by border patrol here in the UK who were speaking to everyone on the flight. Maybe they pegged it as a connecting one likely to containing rule dodgers. Anyway a few stern questions got the truth out of them and they were told in no uncertain terms they had to isolate.
The vast majority of people have done their best to act responsibly throughout all of this and have been incredibly tolerant of huge amounts of government interference in our daily lives. It only takes a few idiots though ... It is pure selfishness, but then humans are quite good at that at times.