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I dislike the slant of the article; the problem was not Kyra Phillips.

If you listen to the audio, her mic is NOT online (it may be on and transmitting but the sound board control is OFF). Then, her mic is brought up, then up more, and Bush's feed is brought down. The levels are adjusted several times. A person went up to her and told her to switch off, but all that needed to be done was to have the sound engineer push the slider down, something the producer could have told him to do as soon as the problem started.

Someone at the control console brought her audio online and mixed it with the press conference feed- there is the error, not that Kyra did something wrong and should have left her mic off. What are all those guys in the control room for?

My bet is that the audio guys routinely listen in on the wireless mics as a goof. This time, they made a mistake and instead of the audio going to the in-studio monitors or the headphone jack, it went to the main bus, and out to all of us.

I'm glad she can make jokes about it but no way is this her fault. It sounds to me like she's been asked to take one for the team. If I were the person in charge of that control room I'd suspend pay for everyone in the room and fire the guy who brought that channel up on line. The whole thing is extremely unprofessional and is more like a college FM station than a national broadcasting station. And a goof at a college station would not have gone on for 85 seconds.