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Wish to tackle extremely sanctimonious fraud in media interview (5,10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

press conference

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'media interview' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'wish to tackle extremely sanctimonious fraud' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'fraud' could be 'con' (con is a kind of fraud) and 'con' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for press conference that I've seen before include "media gathering" , "media event" , "One way to get fruit juice" , "media interview" , "Q&A session" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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