This week, a video aired live of a BBC Interview with Professor Robert Kelly being interrupted by two children and since then the video has gone viral, attracting considerable attention and having been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

Regarding the response to the video, the BBC wrote an article in particular referencing the assumption of many members of the public that the Asian woman - who retrieves the children - featured within the video was a nanny, rather than Kelly's wife. The article included a portion of tweets from people calling out the behaviour that saw people make assumptions based on racial stereotypes:

The article went on to discuss other assumptions made within society based on the socially accepted stereotypes within different races and ethnicities and how, whilst some assumptions may be harmless, many people make negative assumptions based on the initial appearance of a person and categorise people based on a) what they assume a person's nationality is and b) the stereotypes created within society, and often perpetuated by the media, of particular nationalities, ethnicities and races.

Rather than focus on the controversy regarding the audience reception and response of the video, other news distributors, such as The Telegraph and The New York Times, commented on the professionalism that they believed Kelly showed throughout the interview, showing a different approach to commenting on the story but not adding anything new - as per say - to the public discourse surrounding the story, especially in regards to important issues such as those that the BBC's coverage of racial stereotyping.