I take it that instead of saying “n-word”, he said the word full out. Yeah, that is a no,no.
I will say I take issue with the article saying you shouldn’t say the n-word when reading from a script. Is it now wrong to have movie, plays, etc depicting racists saying the n-word? Are we know going to say all the white actors in Roots were racist cause they said the n-word when playing their parts?
http://gawker.com/has-don-lemon-lost-his-goddamn-mind-1713267216
I agree it’s an offensive word and people should have the good sense to not use it. But at least there was some kind of context: it was a meeting about words that are sensitive/offensive to use, presumably in Netflix productions. As you observe, it is used in a variety of contexts…like in media productions.