It happened again—not to two\u00a0starry-eyed, naive news sources who sat in front of the TV cameras for the first time—but\u00a0to two political insiders who should have know better.<\/p>\n
I call it microphonitis—blabbering on and on about private matters and personal opinions and even uttering obscenities—while a microphone is pinned to your lapel.<\/p>\n
This time, it was Peggy Noonan, a conservative columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and Mark Murphy, a strategist during John McCain’s 2000 campaign\u00a0for president,\u00a0\u00a0who were caught criticizing<\/a>\u00a0McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for vice president. It happened\u00a0during a panel discussion on the set of MSNBC,\u00a0where Murphy is a commenator.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Noonan apologized<\/a> in a Wall Street Journal column this morning and gave another version of what she says she meant.\u00a0<\/p>\n Last month, it was Jesse Jackson whose mic was on<\/a>\u00a0when he\u00a0commented that he wanted to castrate Barack Obama.<\/p>\n Interview subjects\u00a0who forget that the mic is always on are always their own worst enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It happened again—not to two\u00a0starry-eyed, naive news sources who sat in front of the TV cameras for the first time—but\u00a0to two political insiders who should have know better. I call it microphonitis—blabbering on and on about private matters and personal opinions and even uttering obscenities—while a microphone is pinned to your lapel. This time, it\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[620],"class_list":{"0":"post-41363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-how-to-interview","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41482,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41363\/revisions\/41482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}