We had this happen with a local news station. Their libtards were getting hammered more and more so the station took down the comment section. The others went to comment sections limited to only stories they wanted comments on.
In other words, stories they wanted up to help shape liberal-bias public opinion, they want no opposition to. That might hurt their corrupt agenda. The news directors will swear up and down they are not biased and then they pull this crap.
CGato
My local news outlet will close comments for certain stories.
Another uses heavily biased mods that will delete certain comments without provocation, while leaving leftist comments alone.