All eyes on hurricane season’s latest fashions
Ballcap with a logo: guilty. Reporting from an actual hurricane: guilty.Â
It’s not a storm of controversy, but it’s very talked about.Â
One of our commenters, Big Daddy, wrote, ”Why must all talking heads venture out in hurricanes wearing the obligatory logo-ed ballcap and windbreaker? It’s just so chiché! I would still watch if they stayed indoors, and respect them more for their common sense.”
So, here we have two issues. Fashion and whether news crews should be reporting so close to or in a hurricane.  What should we wear while reporting in a storm (how about a John Deere getuup instead) and how close to the storm do you want to see pictures and get information?
Thanks for the topic, Big Daddy.
September 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
find a storm. lash chris redford to a concrete pillar. first dress him in a swiss guard uniform like the vatican guys. give him a huge hit of crystal meth. tell him his mic is not working well so he’s going to have to shout. then tell him N.O. refugees are looting his house.
hilarity ensues………
jim roberts can be substituted if chris is on days off.
September 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Here’s my take on it. I have been in blue jeans and a polo shirt before and people who see me all the time, do not recognize me because I’m out of my usual, “reporter attire” of nice work clothes. I’m going to wear a baseball cap in the rain or snow because I don’t want my head to be sopping wet, so I might as well give my station a shout out. Plus, for those who may not recognize me in casual clothes, they will if they see the logo. It may be cliche, but it’s clothing that’s practical for the moment.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
During all the hurricane hoop la, there was a reporter reporting from Galveston (Tx) and bless her heart, she was wearing a very pink shirt with VERY green pants! Now that is not cliche but some one should have told her how awful it looked—especially on TV!
September 17th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
A clearly marked weathervane on a hat would be highly useful to the viewer.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
As long as nobody gets hurt I think it’s cool to see reporters on the scene of hurricanes and I really don’t care what they wear as long as it helps keep them warm and dry.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Thank you, Mel. I feel warm and fuzzy inside.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
This solves the problem about live shots and what to wear.
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q51/ChampsX5/snlpic5.gif?t=1221703786
September 18th, 2008 at 10:30 am
You know Sherri, taking from the whole weather vane on the hat, why not go ahead and put one of those handy wind-reading instruments on your hat, connect it into the live shot and put a dynamic, immediate wind gauge up on the screen. It can just go right up there with the radar/warning map, scroll, counter scroll, station logo and name/location graphics.
Might as well have our hurricane coverage go ahead and look like the Bloomberg Channel.
Modern News Coverage! Where if you didn’t have ADD when you started watching, you will when you finish!!!
September 18th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Oh, and why does Jim Cantore look like Robert Downey Jr from “Tropic Thunder” in that photo?
September 19th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Patrick-Jim Cantore is hot now matter how the shot is taken! haha…
September 19th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Jim is hot, and he does look like Robert Downey Jr…here…who is also very hot.