Imagine—just imagine—if pro-Corbyn Labour staffers had been caught making fun of Luciana Berger, say, after discovering she was crying in a toilet because of online abuse. And that they boasted about texting a journalist to let them know. It would be front-page news for weeks.
No question whatsoever: every detail of that conversation would be emblazoned across front pages and TV bulletins at great length, and journalists would be camped outside Corbyn's house demanding that he condemn it and apologize for having ever employed such rotten individuals. 
Anyone who paid the least bit of attention to the news would know about it. It would be presented as a damning indictment of Corbyn's entire movement. Instead, we get a handful of stories which uncritically foreground the excuses of the guilty parties and soft-soap what they did.
A lot of the stuff around the leaked Labour report may seem quite inside-baseball, with everything that's happening in the wider world. But the refusal of the British media to apply normal reporting protocols here says so much about the general dysfunctions of the public sphere.
