ABSTRACT
Modern editing techniques and the speed of the operation, as the sheer volume of the output on all channels increases, has made editorial responsibility issues much more important. Before doing any work for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) today, producers, directors, and editors have to take an online course where, by means of various examples of editorial dilemmas, we have to choose the best solution to the editorial problems presented to us. In these days of increasing concern about sex and bad language in broadcast material, let alone 'political correctness' or religious sensitivities, an editor, along with the production team, has to be more and more a custodian of a nation's morals. Every programme broadcast on the main channels in the UK has associated with it a compliance form which lists all the words contained in the programme that could possibly be considered as bad language, and the programme is classified accordingly.
