Fancy nabbing extremely serious politician for media event? (5,10)
I believe the answer is:
press conference
'media event?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'fancy nabbing extremely serious politician' is the wordplay.
'fancy' becomes 'preference' (I've seen this before).
'nabbing' means one lot of letters goes inside another (nab can mean to capture or arrest).
'extremely serious politician' becomes 'sscon' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'preference' placed around 'sscon' is 'PRESS CONFERENCE'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for press conference that I've seen before include "meeting with journalists" , "media event" , "One way to get fruit juice" , "media gathering" , "Q&A session" .)