"Unwritten Sharia law compliance" is exactly what this smells like.
Regarding our complicit American Mainstream media, all I can say is that there's no idiot like a useful idiot.
“complicit American Mainstream media”
Lots of organizations thrive in a system where everything is prescribed, planned, predictable. Sharia would give that to the media, and remove any dissent by having anonymous howling mobs do the job.
Guaranteed stability, in Blair’s world where the future is a boot, endlessly stomping a human face.