Lord Hall, probably already packing flip-flops and Bermudas, has been obliged to front one (last?) reverse ferret.
The n-word was used in a report from BBC Points West Social Affairs Correspondent Fiona Lamdin, about a ghastly attack on a black NHS worker, run on 28th July. By 4th August, the word had been bleeped, but the journalistic justification for its initial use was still supported; "the decision to use it in full was made by a team of people including a number of senior editorial figures."
On this Sunday afternoon, the cancel culture got to the BBC, and there came a formal apology. I note, en passant, that the recently-aired documentary about The Real Thing used the n-word in full - but maybe nobody on Twitter spotted it.
Family wanted me to share this awful image after their son was deliberately run over by a car & racially abused as he walked home from work. pic.twitter.com/GKPxhGiSHd
— Fiona Lamdin (@FionaLamdin) July 28, 2020
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