New York- Morocco’s Royal court issued a stern warning on Tuesday to public television channel 2M over what the protocol representatives of the Royal court described as a “professional mistake.”
In one of its reports on the King’s recent visit to Tunisia, the state-owned channel had used private pictures of King Mohamed VI taken from social media networks.
2M News Director Samira Sitail's desire to show the “other side” of the king through pictures showing him dressed casually when he had stopped in the street to take pictures with ordinary Tunisians did not meet with approval from the Royal court which indicated that the use of such pictures runs contrary to official protocol.
The royal Court's representatives expressed their disapproval of the use of private pictures of the king by a public television.
Samira Sitail gave instructions for the station to make up for the “grave mistake” by broadcasting a clarifying announcement and issuing a formal apology in its news bulletins, in which the news anchor apologized with a big smile.