Facepalm: Indian news anchor fired for calling China President 'Eleven Jinping'

[Fattyacids]

Bloopers on television news are not uncommon, but when you get the name of a visiting head of state wrong, especially if you are the nation's public broadcaster, trying hard to reinvent itself over the last year, the embarrassment is huge.

While anchoring the late night bulletin on DD News, a 'casual' anchor, pronounced Chinese President Xi Jinping's name as 'Eleven' Jinping, obviously confusing Xi with the Roman numerical for eleven.

According to this report in The Indian Express, the inexperienced news anchor, who has since been removed, was put on the show as the main anchors choose not to present the late night broadcasts.

President Xi Jinping, who is on a three-day visit bi-lateral visit to India, has signed 12 key bilateral documents promising India investments worth $30 billion.

Facepalm: DD news anchor fired for calling China President 'Eleven Jinping' - Firstpost

Indian TV news anchor sacked after referring to Chinese president Xi Jinping as Eleven Jinping - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[Roybot]

Eleven Jinping, shouldn't have been fired though.

 

[srshkmr]

promising India investments worth $30 billion.

Facepalm: DD news anchor fired for calling China President 'Eleven Jinping' - Firstpost

Indian TV news anchor sacked after referring to Chinese president Xi Jinping as Eleven Jinping - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Its only $20 Billion

 

[bitter_but_better]

LoL she should have receive comedian of the month!

 

[Mujraparty]

Eleven Jinping ,now that's gonna stick ...

 

[TejasMk3]

LOL Saw this on twitter, thought it was not real. Eleven Jinping,

She is not fired, she has been debarred for a while. It's a bit harsh for an unintentional mistake.

 

[JonAsad]

I expect better from a news anchor-

 

[StormShadow]

 

[Soulspeek]

Hilarious mistake but certainly not worth firing. Who watches DD news anyways!

 

[indiatester]

Oh man that is funny.
But not knowing the visiting Chinese President's name for an anchor is an offense.

 

[Sam Manekshaw]

 

[TejasMk3]

Hilarious mistake but certainly not worth firing. Who watches DD news anyways!

You'd actually be surprised, DD news is a awesome for people who are tired of sensationalist news channels. There is waaaay too much shouting happening on places like times now, cnn ibn, ndtv etc.

 

[trollhunter]

Mr noodles should have been better

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Lol, that's funny, indeed.

Don't they have people briefing the news anchors how to pronounce foreign names?

 

[Bombaywalla]

Excellent! Silly as this might sound, the Indian pronunciation would've been more apt.