As much as I don't like to see a girl as cute and perky as Mia get threatened with the sack, you have to bear in mind that there are two sides to every story.

Think:

Who is paying/employing Mia to be there? Evil Angel
Who will make money off of Mike South's story? Mike South

Why should Evil Angel pay someone to work/make money for someone else?

This is true for any girl working at any booth...I'm sure Mia had lots of nice things to say about EA, but that's not the point.

What sort of reaction do you think you'd get if you walked into a Ralph's, Starbucks, McDonalds, or GAP and borrowed a cute female employee for half an hour for an off-premises interview (which you are going to sell for $$$) without any prior arrangement or clearance from management?

I'm pretty sure management would threaten them with the sack.

If every half-assed excuse for a porn journalist was allowed to just blithely whisk Mia (or whichever girl) away from the EA booth for 30mins, then it's likely she wouldn't have been found at the EA booth at all over the duration of AEE. Lots of quasi-fanboy journalistic non-entities out there with amateurish websites, blogs, podcasts and 'internet radio shows'.

Sure, maybe if Mia did nothing but interviews over the course of AEE it would be of some benefit to EA, but that's EA's call to make, because they are the ones paying her to be there, and their call was that they'd get more bang for their buck having Mia at the booth rather than doing an interview with Mike South.

It's the Golden Rule...the one who makes the gold, makes the rules. I don't see any mention of Mike South offering to compensate EA for the time Mia was away from the booth...do you?