Crime is ignored in circus

I write with reference to the media frenzy surrounding the alleged racism on Channel 4's Big Brother. I am not a fan of the programme and therefore cannot vouch confidently on whether the behaviour was indeed of this nature.

What I am able to do however is compare the ridiculous amount of airtime and column inches given to what is at most a verbal attack from one z-list celebrity to another, to the media whitewash and lack of coverage given to the violent racist attack on a 15-year-old boy in Wiltshire.

This boy was attacked with a hammer by a gang of eight Asian youths and left with a fractured skull.

Eyewitnesses reported the event as being racially motivated according to local newspapers but the national media have ignored it and jumped on the BB circus.

Is this really what society has come to, that the squabbles of a couple of so-called celebrities is more newsworthy than a violent, racially motivated gang attack on a schoolboy within school grounds?

Janice Thompson, Church Stretton