LOL???

Once again, I find myself struggling to understand something that the media are getting all het up about.  These texts and e-mails which may or may not have been going back and forth between David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks - so what?  Are we really saying that a Prime Minister (in fact I don't think he was Prime Minister at the appropriate time - just Leader of the Opposition) cannot have close personal friends and correspond with them?  Leaving aside for the moment the question of whether private messages should be subject to Freedom of Information legislation, just what is going to be achieved by publishing them?  Even if, as some people hope, they turn out to be "salacious"? Am I missing something?