RTM banned actors from speaking Bahasa Malaysia with a Chinese or Tamil accent in comedy programmes as the performance are an insult to non-Malays as the new generation no longer speaks like that. If so, RTM should banned actors from speaking Bahasa Malaysia with a Kelantanese accent too! It is Bahasa Malaysia, no other accents.Read this story reported by Bernama 1-1-2008 :Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) has banned actors from speaking Bahasa Malaysia with a Chinese or Tamil accent in comedy programmes, sitcoms or drama series, said Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin.
“The Information Ministry has long been aware of the problem and after I took over as Information Minister, I gave clear instructions for RTM to stop airing programmes containing such acts.
“I am fully aware that such performances are an insult to non-Malays as the new generation of non-Malays no longer speaks like that. In fact, they cannot relate to such programmes,” Zainnuddin said in a statement here today.
For this reason, he said, RTM no longer hired several actors who had a penchant for spicing up Bahasa Malaysia, as highlighted by the public in several English and Chinese dailies today.
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