In Belgium, we used to have this tacid agreement amongst the press that they wouldn’t talk about mistresses of ministers and kings. Because it was seen as just a private matter. It doesn’t hold true all the time, but it shows that the press could decide to just not talk about folks like Elon unless they really have to. Not sure it would still work these days, now that most journalism has been replaced with copy pasting an article an making the title a bit more click-baity than the previous one…

Unless of course our luck runs out and someone pushes the nuclear button