A slight detour but I believe valuable in understanding how our media works.
After PS's brave announcement last week the Sun removed the comment option from their many articles about him to avoid the backlash.
Yesterday after Caroline Flacks death a number of people (myself included) commented on Sun articles trying to distance themselves from any culpability. A number of comments compared the treatment of CF and PS and referenced quotes from the likes of KH, AM, JM and others who has also drawn the parallel between treatment of CF and PS.
10 minutes ago I viewed the articles to see if anyone had replied to my comments but they are all gone (every single comment not just mine). Plus the comment function has been turned off on all CF articles. I stress that last nights comments were overwhelmingly supportive of CF and scathing of the media so cannot believe they have been removed to protect CF and family so can only conclude it has been done to stop negative stories about the press (the number of stories blaming the CPS is staggering) and further discussion of PS. In the meantime the Sun is writing more hugely negative articles about Kevin Fletcher (?) today and rehashing 'brave' stories about PS.
For what its worth, ill throw in my 2c
Generally speaking where things like injuctions/gagging orders exist, the news papers will usually disable comments because what is posted on the story they are responsible for the moderation of it - so in some situations its easier to disable it. I have no idea why it was done for the CF articles, it makes no sense.
In relation to the brave stories about PS coming around now.... I can see an all out war between ITV and the tabloids coming. It seems that most of the celebs are pushing the agenda of the media destroying CF. That can only last for so long before the tabloids crack and find some way to publish what they have. I would highly suspect this will turn ugly real soon.