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This was a special report on the BBC News at Ten. Looked and felt like a news story to me, and it's certainly not uncommon for longer-length special reports to feature on the same bulletin. It was also used to point viewers towards an investigative programme on iPlayer (which I would've missed entirely if I hadn't seen it on the Ten).

Why do people keep reacting like I said they shouldn't have done the investigation/made the report? I was just saying that I can't see how it is justified to be given the Grade A* story treatment on the BBC News website when it, a current affairs investigation, is very much not of the calibre of the lstories that have previously been given such a priority - which has largely been limited to major UK political stories, UK/US elections, Covid regulations, terrorist attacks and the early days of the War in Ukraine.

To me, it just smacks of the growing trend of BBC News overpromoting certain interviews/features they've made. I would draw a straight line between them using push notifications to advertise magazine stories to the Musk or Schofield interviews being given top billing to this. The BBC News frontpage should be what the main news stories are in the world right now, not a shop window for which BBC News products they want to push.