I don't think it's paranoid to notice how odd certain potentially embarrassing articles at least temporarily "disappear" from the web. I've seen it happen hundreds of times. If somebody has enough wealth and influence to have a staff of image minders and attorneys, embarrassing stuff can be persuaded down, at least for a short while. One funny example; when I first came across an unflattering picture of Steve Wozniak playing Segway polo, looking like the fat pompous bastard on wheels that he basically is, anyway, when I went to post a copy from photobucket onto a forum post (a gamer's forum), the link was busted within 20 minutes of my post. The Woz's peeps probably caught it, and the photo legally did not have copyright clearance or some such shit, so that was it for a little while...them boom! The pic link worked again after a couple weeks; I had been regularly checking my post, photobucket and the saved link, plus did image searches during that period of time - was like the pic never really made it to the web originally!