Saturday, November 29, 2014

Goof up by TV news anchor on Doordarshan, India’s national channel


This was a major embarrassment for Doordarshan, the national TV channel of India, when a news anchor goofed up her words and the top man of Doordarshan has blamed it on shortage of adequately trained staff.
The incident pertains to the inauguration day of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Goa. The Doordarshan anchor had introduced the Governor of Goa Mridula Sinha as the "Governor of India" and the clip, posted on YouTube, went viral. The anchor is seen talking to a number of people who were arriving for the film festival and it was carried live on November 20, the opening day of IFFI.
It seems she was totally clueless about how to interview personalities at such important events.
Needless to say that it attracted much criticism for Doordarshan on social media.
Jawhar Sircar, the CEO of Prasar Bharati which controls Doordarshan has quoted alarming figures as regards the staffing position of Doordarashan.
He has indicated that his people are looking into the matter and has agreed that such "gaffes" cannot be allowed to go on. He also added that with 18,000 vacancies in regular posts and no regular recruitment in the last 20 years the Station Directors had to depend on casual employees and many of them are not skilled enough.
Moreover, as far as supervisory staff are concerned, such cadres are as good as non-existent with 180 vacancies among 191 posts – hence, there is no one to check gaffes.

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