Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
How do you know the BBC routinely promotes these stories at the expense of other things ?

Where have you got this from ?

You are having one of your nights here
Because the BBC often report on these stories, frequently based on a tiny reaction on twitter. And they only have so many stories on the website / TV news and thus other stories by default slip down the agenda.

Sometimes the demand for racism seems to outstrip supply and this strikes me as one of those occasions.