BBC Edited Out Second Racial Slur From BAFTAs Broadcast

The BBC is beneath fireplace for failing to edit out the N-word from its broadcast of the BAFTAs … although the group has reportedly advised staff it did catch one other slur.

Here is the deal … Kate Phillips — the Chief Content material Officer for the British Broadcasting Firm — despatched an e-mail to workers members apologizing that the racial slur involuntarily thrown at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo by Tourette’s activist John Davidson wasn’t edited out of the printed.

Nonetheless, Phillips additionally seemingly praised editors within the workers e-mail as a result of they “eliminated one other racial slur from the printed.”

Phillips continued, “I’m so sorry {that a} racial slur was not edited out of our broadcast. We perceive how distressing this was. Award attendees have been pre-warned about the opportunity of involuntary verbal tics related to Tourette syndrome firstly of the present, and Alan Cumming addressed it in the course of the broadcast. After all, this doesn’t reduce the affect and upset.”

Davidson has already addressed the controversy in a public assertion … during which he wrote, “I’m, and all the time have been deeply mortified if anybody considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to hold any which means.”