TV3 apologises for calling Kamala Harris child of undocumented migrant

Aminah Farid Aminah Farid Updated 3 years ago · Published on 9 Nov 2020 3:19PM · 5 Comments

Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris celebrate winning the US presidential election, in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, on November 7, 2020, – AFP, November 9, 2020.

THE nation’s oldest private television channel TV3 has apologised for falsely calling the United States’ newly elected vice-president a child of an undocumented migrant on its Buletin 130 programme yesterday.

“We apologise for any inconvenience caused to the new vice-president of the United States, Kamala Harris,” the channel said on the same programme today.

TV3’s statement yesterday had riled up the Twittersphere, leading to cries of “fake news”. 

@MohanAgileKrish said the news channel was creating fake news and demanded that it make a public apology and “necessary correction.”

@KUL2TPA said the mislabel was not an error but “a blatant case of division politics”.

“Sack the entire production team and the anchor for not speaking up. They had the right to refuse such BS but ignored every iota of it,” the user said.

User @myindupooja said: “Is this for real  @BuletinTV3! Her mother was not an illegal immigrant to US. She went to US to do her Masters & became a research scientist.  It reflects badly on your news team & Malaysia. Time to fire this team & get qualified ppl.”

“Dear @BuletinTV3 not only is VP @KamalaHarris the first woman VP but also first woman of colour elected to the 2nd highest position of the most powerful nation in the world. And you guys insult her mum at the moment of her greatest achievement,” said MIC Senator S. Vellpaari.

“Freaking do homework first. It’s lazy at best and outrageous,” said @Tiniz.

“Stupid is it @BuletinTV3, it looks like you didn’t go to school. Go back to school before presenting news. Will  @SKMM_MCMC  take action or they publish an apology for spreading fake news? I would hear an apology. This is from a news media!!!” said user @SaiSelian.

 Kamala was born in 1964 to parents active in the civil rights movement, Shyamala Gopalan, from India, and Donald Harris, from Jamaica. The two met at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kamala is the first black woman vice-president of the United States. – November 9, 2020.

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Comments

  • Intentionally accidentally smearing a Tamil nothing new in Malaysia.

    Posted 3 years ago by Alphonz Jayaratnam · Reply

  • Shows the mentality of this news group which cant accept that a woman of calibre of Indian origin has been accepted and voted in by a majority of USA citizens to be the next VP. Quite obvious they unable to accept that a person of Indian origin can actually make it to the top of USA Government with no handouts nor reliance on ethnicity but sheer talent, calibre, hardwork, integrity and principles. Wonder whether they made such a statement to dumbdown on the achievement of a person of Indian origin by making false claims that she is an illegal immigrant cos of some innate fear that it might somehow form the basis for or encourage Malaysian indians to harbour the dream that as citizens they too have the right to one day lead this country if they have the same talent, calibre, integrity and principles.

    Posted 3 years ago by Michael Raj · Reply

  • Does the CEO play any pert in this apology or hiding somewhere?

    Posted 3 years ago by Loyal Malaysian · Reply

  • Interestingly the U. S. Ambassador to Malaysia is also a woman of Indian origin and her name too is Kamala!

    Posted 3 years ago by Simple Sulaiman · Reply

  • With the current top elected U.S. official being a certain very flawed character named Donald J. Trump, I don't believe we can read too much into someone being elected into political office in the U.S., or indeed anywhere.

    Posted 3 years ago by Tessa Bright · Reply