The microphone is always on ... the microphone is always on ... the microphone - and the Twitter keyboard - is always on.
President Obama has been in the public spotlight long enough to know how things like this can happen. He's hardly the first seasoned, long-experienced public figure to get caught-up in something like this ... and I suspect he won't be the last, either.
And, NO, I am NOT excusing ABC News' Terry Moran for what was, IMHO, a breach of professional conduct.
On a related note, take part in this poll and discussion of "Should a journalist be reprimanded by his/her employer for reporting what were meant to be off-the-record comments by a president?"
President Obama has been in the public spotlight long enough to know how things like this can happen. He's hardly the first seasoned, long-experienced public figure to get caught-up in something like this ... and I suspect he won't be the last, either.
And, NO, I am NOT excusing ABC News' Terry Moran for what was, IMHO, a breach of professional conduct.
On a related note, take part in this poll and discussion of "Should a journalist be reprimanded by his/her employer for reporting what were meant to be off-the-record comments by a president?"
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