TV3 making a public apology for calling U.S. vice president-elect Kamala Harris the daughter of an illegal immigrant during the news broadcast on Nov 8.
FYI @BuletinTV3 VP-elect @KamalaHarris isn't a child of illegal immigrants. pic.twitter.com/QXl0TEROXd
— Jahabar Sadiq (@jsadiq) November 9, 2020
The newscaster can be heard saying at 1.30pm news report, “Harris made history when she became the first dark-skinned, South Asian individual to hold the second-highest position in the U.S. government office.
“The child of a Jamaican and illegal immigrant from India broke American stereotypes when she became the first female, dark-skinned lawyer in California.”
On the following day, TV3 apologised on air for its error reporting the vice president background. TV3 also uploaded a 30-second clip uploaded on its Facebook and Twitter accounts.
In a 30-second clip uploaded on its Facebook and Twitter accounts, and TV3 wrote in caption, “With regards to our report at 1:30pm yesterday (Nov. 8), we would like to apologise for making the error regarding new U.S. vice president Kamala Harris.”
She is, in fact, the daughter of an immigrant couple from Jamaica and India and not as we reported. We regret this mistake we made regarding her background.
Soon after the news was out, some netizen spotted the mistake and even tagging TV3 and asked them to apologise and some suggested the free to air TV to do a proper fact check before anything is documented.
