"The ECU found editorial standards were unintentionally breached via the broadcast of the offensive term and in failing to edit it out of the time-delayed showing of the ceremony."
"The fact that the unedited recording remained available for so long aggravated the offence caused by the inadvertent inclusion of the N-word in the broadcast."
"The ECU accepted their account, for two reasons. Firstly, the use of the N-word in that instance was extremely indistinct, to the point where it might well not have been recognised by the production team."
The BBC's executive complaints unit found that the corporation breached its editorial standards by broadcasting a racial slur during the Bafta film awards. The slur was shouted by a campaigner during the presentation of an award. The breach occurred due to the failure to edit the term from the time-delayed broadcast and the iPlayer version. The report indicated a lack of clarity among the production team regarding the audibility of the slur, leading to a significant delay in its removal from iPlayer, which aggravated the offense caused.
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