From what I can tell, in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy the main policy was to blame the fans, the police did their best to offload any blame from them onto the fans and the media also helped continue that story.
Any attempts to disprove that story generally wound up being pushed into the long grass, until the 20th anniversary when the then justice secretary Andy Burnham called on all agencies to release the documents which had not been made available to the inquiry in 1989, that in turn lead to the formation of an independent panel which ruled in 2012 that the fans were not responsible for the deaths and that attempts had been made by the authorities to cover up details. That ruling lead to a new inquest, the results of which are in the opening post of this thread.
Interestingly, the only newspaper not to lead with the results on the front page this morning is 'The Sun' which got into hot water when it ran a headline titled 'The Truth' back in '89 which accused the fans of beating up people attempting CPR, pick-pockets robbing corpses and other fans urinating on the police, which was proven to be falsifications and slurs, in fact the fans were generally seen to aid the emergency services in many circumstances such as in carrying stretchers off the pitch.
The Sun has never done well in Liverpool ever since, and I doubt that the decision to omit the judgement from todays headlines will do much to change that.
