BBC headsets

Why have BBC reporters who wear those headsets with a earpiece and a microphone on a stalk started using flesh–coloured foam deelies on the microphones instead of the traditional black (e.g. Sue Barker during the Olympics and the reporter from the Republican convention at the moment)? You can obviously still see the microphone bulb despite the camouflage, so it just looks like a huge carbuncle on the side of their face. Not attractive.

Labels: TV