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BBC News made an unfortunate mistake by presenting a piece in which a reporter swears.
On Thursday, anchor Matthew Amroliwala was hosting when he provided an update on the Northern Ireland Police Service’s large data breach, which resulted in the publication of 10,000 officers’ personal information by accident.
While there were intentions to show recordings from a press conference on the subject, something went wrong and they didn’t play, prompting the host to say he was crossing to journalist Charlotte Gallagher.
‘Well, apologies we can’t bring you that clip, but our correspondent Charlotte Gallagher has this report,’ he shared with viewers.
Although Charlotte was supposed to provide an update on what had occurred, it became evident that there had been another hiccup.
In the video, she begins speaking but then restarts her phrase, implying that the film was a pre-recorded video that was accidentally broadcast.
‘As the public face of the PSNI, Chief Constable Simon Byrne…as the public face of the PSNI, Chief Constable Simon Byrne has been under an incredible amount of pressure over this data breach,’ she said.
Things became much more difficult when the national broadcaster used some inflammatory words.
‘Today he said he was “deeply sorry”, describing the breach as, of…I can’t get my words out…f***,’ she said.
The reporter could then be seen pursing her lips and rolling her tongue over her teeth in frustration.
The sound then cut out and the channel cut back to the studio, where Matthew jumped in: ‘Well, apologies there for that confusion.
‘That was our correspondent Charlotte Gallagher, she’s monitoring what’s been happening there at that news conference.
‘We will get more on that here in the next little while.’
Not willing to let the moment slide, some viewers took to social media to speak about what they’d just witnessed.
As one person explained, it was ‘every live broadcaster’s worst nightmare’.
Another guessed the journalist would be ‘mortified’ one she realised what had been broadcast.
Around 20 minutes later, the anchor apologised on live.
‘Now, before we move on, I want to apologise for the bad language a little earlier you may have heard in a clip,’ he said.
‘We were playing you the outcome of the press conference [where] we heard from the Chief Constable of Northern Ireland’s police force, that data breach, and we went to our correspondent.’
He said they had accidently played a clip with ‘bad language’, apologising to viewers for ‘what you just heard’.
Source My Celebrity Life.