'Resonate'. That's a nice way of putting some stories are more reported than others.
> The Rotherham scandal was to all current knowledge a singular event of local non-US scope, with no bigger topic to resonate against other than xenophobia.
I didn't limit Google trends to the US, so I don't see why non-US scope is relevant. But are you're saying that the Rotherham scandal was reported on less because it resonates with xenophobia? That journalists suppress stories if they promote the wrong ideology?
Also, 'singular event'? Forgetting for the moment that it was at least 1400 events over a period of 16 years, did you bother to scroll to the bottom of the Rotherham scandal wikipedia page, and click on the link that leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexual_abuses_perpetra... ?