‘I’m here to shoot the prime minister!’
An innocuous use of the wrong word outside familiar settings saw two members of a news crew detained by immigration officers at a UK airport, according to a former journalist.
In a new book, former Media Prima Berhad group managing editor Ashraf Abdullah recounted how a TV3 camera crew was dispatched to cover then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s visit to London.
When questioned by a British immigration officer at Heathrow, a cameraman in the crew who spoke little English was asked the purpose of his visit.
“Without missing a beat, he answered, with full confidence and not a flicker of irony: ‘I am here to shoot the prime minister,’” Ashraf wrote in Surviving the Newsroom.
There followed immediate pandemonium, he wrote.
According to Ashraf, a reporter standing beside the…
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