What Was The Deal With The Microphone Noises At The Oscars?

Throughout the Academy Awards Sunday night, dozens of viewers complained about a persistent, distracting “tinny” feedback sound that kept emerging from the microphone.

Update: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Rob Cohen claims the audio problem is not being heard in the theater, but rather a “downstream” problem:

Here are just a few of the disgruntled Twitterers kvetching about the mic:

Tinny appeared to be the word most critics used to describe the sound:
Someone even created a parody Twitter account to poke fun at the audio problems:

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