the national republican senatorial committee, backing miller, called the situation, deeply disturbing and, should trouble all americans any member of the media would attempt to purposely smear a nominee for the u.s. senate. ktva denied a smear attempt and made no apologies. station manager jerry beaver defends his team,ing aing, quote: the perception the garbled, out of context recording may leave is unfortunate but to allege our staff was discussing or planning to create or fabricate stories, regarding candidate miller is absurd. the complete conversation was about what others might be able to do to cause disruption within the miller campaign. not what ktva could do. and have he had internal discussions about the level of professionalism we need to bring to our conversations internally and externally, of course, it is a lesson to learn from. miller was not buying the explanation. go to the transcript on-line and make the decision, i will tell you what i heard was