Lisa Chavarria and Joanie Lum

Elizabeth Matthews

Robservations on the media beat:

The station that told its reporters they couldn't wear hats in winter now has them wearing bright red jackets branded with the company's logo. Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32 ordered the emblazoned coats and headgear for employees after the station was ridiculed here for telling staffers they had to go hatless during live shots. (Fox 32 boss Dennis Welsh later disavowed the edict, calling it “5,000 percent not a station policy.”) One insider called the new red regalia “a typical overreaction by management.” Continue reading →