BBC News Apologizes Profusely to Viola Davis and Beyoncé for… Actually, We Don’t Know WhyFebruary 7, 2023

See original article: Do Better: BBC News Apologizes After Accidentally Posting Photo of Viola Davis While Celebrating Beyoncé

An asleep-at-the-wheel drone bee at the BBC mixed up a pho­to of Vio­la Davis with a pho­to of a queen bee. Not just any queen bee: It was Bey­on­cé the Queen B.

And Queen B Bey­on­cé’s fans are Very. Unhap­py. with the Drone B. Vio­la Davis’s fans are also Very. Unhap­py. about the insult. BBC has issued a grov­el­ing apol­o­gy for the mis­take that’s well worth read­ing (see below), but that’s not good enough.

I don’t under­stand the out­rage. The mis­la­beled pho­to appeared dur­ing the BBC’s live cov­er­age of the Gram­mys for a just a few min­utes before some­one noticed and the error was corrected.

I don’t under­stand why it’s an insult either: Vio­la Davis became an EGOT win­ner and Bey­on­cé became the most-award­ed artist of all time. They weren’t mis­gen­dered or mis­raced (is that a word?) or fat-shamed or mansplained at or accused of wear­ing MAGA hats or any of the oth­er egre­gious unfor­giv­able trans­gres­sions out there vic­tim­iz­ing inno­cent people.

But as usu­al, left­ists are out­raged on some­one else’s behalf, regard­less of whether the “vic­tims” them­selves are insulted.

Here’s the BBC’s apol­o­gy. It sounds vague­ly familiar:

We apol­o­gize. We’re real­ly, real­ly sor­ry, We apol­o­gize unre­served­ly. We take it back. We offer a com­plete and utter retrac­tion. The impu­ta­tion was total­ly with­out basis in fact, and was in no way fair com­ment, and was moti­vat­ed pure­ly by mal­ice, and we deeply regret any dis­tress that our com­ments may have caused you, or your fam­i­ly, and we here­by under­take not to repeat any such slan­der at any time in the future.^[1]Just kid­ding! The apol­o­gy says “We apol­o­gise for the mis­take last night when our news chan­nels briefly showed a pho­to­graph of Vio­la Davis from January’s Gold­en Globes along­side a head­line about … Con­tin­ue read­ing