'Middle Finger' | Should Maryam Moshiri's on-air slip-up be a concern to HR?

From the moment you swear and realise that your mic isn't muted on a Teams or Zoom call, to that 'get up to answer the door and everyone sees your athleisure', everyone's had an 'on-air' blunder.

And for most of us, it's usually to a small-ish team, but not the whole nation or world. However, for newsreader Maryam Moshiri, that was what happened when she appeared on screen holding up her middle finger to the camera.

The clip has gone viral, but perhaps not so much for the actual gesture as the 'there but for the grace of God' go most of us.

Hey everyone , yesterday just before the top of the hour I was joking around a bit with the team in the gallery.

I was pretending to count down as the director was counting me down from 10-0.. including the fingers to show the number. So from 10 fingers held up to one.

When…

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