DOORDARSHAN ANCHOR JOB AXED PRONOUNCED CHINESE PRESIDENT NAME Xi Jinping AS ELEVEN JINPING
New Delhi: Doordarshan News has sacked a newsreader as she pronounced the name of Chinese President Xi Jinping as “Eleven Jinping” in a bulletin, mistaking “Xi” for the Roman numeral “XI.”
The bulletin went on air at 6.15 a.m. on Wednesday and she was sacked on the same day in the afternoon.
She was from the casual panel of newsreaders. They stand in for those on regular service and are paid on a daily basis.
