The broadcast of a racial slur shouted by a Tourette’s campaigner during the BAFTA Film Awards breached the BBC‘s editorial standards, the corporation has ruled.
Despite the findings from the BBC’s executive complaints unit (ECU) on Wednesday, the organization’s chief content officer, Kate Phillips, has maintained that the breach “was not intentional.”
The incident at the BAFTAs in February dominated headlines for weeks as John Davidson, executive producer on I Swear (and whose life growing up with Tourette’s inspired the film), involuntarily said the N-word while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo presented the award for best visual effects.
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An onslaught of apologies followed, from BAFTA, the BBC, and the then-director-general Tim Davie, who explained that the N-word made it to air — even with the awards show filmed on a two-hour tape delay — because of a mix-up in the
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