US EditionBBC found to have breached editorial standards over Bafta racial slur
The ECU said the word should not have aired and called the BBC’s delayed iPlayer removal a serious mistake.
- On Wednesday, the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit ruled that broadcasting a racial slur during the February Bafta Film Awards breached editorial standards, finding the incident "highly offensive" and without editorial justification.
- Tourette's campaigner John Davidson shouted the involuntary slur while actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented the Special Visual Effects Award in February; the production team did not hear the word during the live event.
- Although the ceremony aired on a two-hour delay, the unedited recording remained available on iPlayer until the following morning, which the ECU report called a "serious mistake" that aggravated the offence.
- BBC Chief Content Officer Kate Phillips sent letters of apology to those involved and said the corporation "must learn from our mistakes and ensure our processes are as robust as they can be" for future events.
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John Davidson went to the Bafta Awards gala and made her a brown lion. He called the actors Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan, both black, “negger,” while they presented an award on stage and left everyone speechless. Davidson insulted, but inadvertently. The man suffers Tourette’s syndrome since his adolescence. It is a chronic neurological disorder that prevents those affected from controlling his impulses. From a very young age, Davidson offe…
The BBC violated its editorial standards by inadvertently issuing a racist insult during the broadcast of the Bafta film awards held in February, according to a report by the British Public Radio's Complaints Executive Unit (ECU) Wednesday.
BBC Breached Editorial Standards in Airing Slur
The BBC's own watchdog is calling foul over the airing of the n-word during February's BAFTAs broadcast. The corporation's Executive Complaints Unit has ruled that airing the slur—said to have been involuntarily spoken by Tourette's campaigner John Davidson as actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented the first...
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