The BBC has ruled that the BAFTA N-word broadcast breached its editorial standards but in a way that was “unintentional.”
The broadcaster’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) had been examining the SNAFU over the past few weeks. At last month’s BAFTA Film Awards, the N-word was yelled unintentionally by Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson at Sinners stars Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan. This remained in the broadcast version of the show two hours later and on iPlayer for more than 12 hours.
The BBC probed why the slur was broadcast, why it wasn’t edited out from the broadcast version due to the two-hour time delay and how it remained on iPlayer for so long.
On the first two points, the ECU ruled that the “inclusion of the n-word in the broadcast (which was also streamed live on iPlayer) was highly offensive, had no editorial justification and represented a
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