State TV treats news viewers with live obscenity

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In Friday’s Terevisioon, TV audience was able to clearly detect mine persse*, in capital letters, on paper notes of Kerli Dello delivering the morning news.

As the news wound up at 7:37 am, Ms Dello arranged her papers, the bottom one officially telling the audience where to go.

After the revelation, Estonian Public Broadcasting removed the video. According to Ms Dello, this was an embarrassing slip. She apologises to viewers and underlines the message was not directed toward any of them.

* Estonian approximate equivalent to the English f-bomb.

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