I haven't seen This Morning since it was Richard and Judy and the bloke leaping about the big weather map, but I care since it directly related to my job, and I care passionately about safeguarding. We live in a society where adult men being sexually predatory towards teenagers is so normalised and it shouldn't be. Even if you don't work in safeguarding or work in TV, you should care, because we all live in a society where unhealthy attitudes towards sex and power thrive and are accepted, and we're all raising our children, those of us who have children, in that society.
I don't want my children or anyone's children growing up in a world where middle aged men fucking 16yr olds is dismissed as "what's the problem it's legal", or where teenagers are expected to have sex with their boss or tolerate harassment to get a job or a promotion.
However, Endlesssummer2022 is completely right, the right wing tabloid press absolutely and openly collude with the government to kill or de-emphasise certain political stories, and deflecting attention onto celebs is one tactic they use to do this. Anyone who isn't aware of this can't possibly work in the media or have much knowledge of how the media works.
Meghan was absolutely used that way. The day the court found that Matt Hancock had acted unlawfully over Covid contracts, the right wing press all published headlines about something Meghan had done months earlier where clearly a reason had been engineered to drag it all up again on that specific day.
With Schofield it's a bit more complex. The NHS scandal is terrible but it's not the kind of story the tabloids would really cover even without a celeb scandal to focus on, and the grooming/abuse of power aspect does make this more than just a celeb scandal.