BBC receives 18,600 complaints over use of racial slur in news report
The BBC has received more than 18,600 complaints about the use of a racial slur in a TV news report.
That makes it the second-most complained about incident since the BBC began using its current system in 2017. OnlyPrior to 2017, Jerry Springer: The Opera received the most complaints of any BBC show, with 63,000.The report, which aired on Wednesday 29 July, described an attack on a 21-year-old NHS worker and musician known as K or K-Dogg.
"It's for this reason they asked us specifically to show the photos of this man's injuries and were also determined that we should report the racist language, in full, alleged to have been spoken by the occupants of the car."
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