An Illinois weatherman may have thrown his job into jeopardy after calling out his Sinclair-owned station’s use of a dramatic “Code Red” alert while delivering a live report. Crain joked that the advisory “was created by likely a journalism school graduate” and remarked on the flood of complaints from viewers. Sinclair public relations officer Ronn Torossian defended the alert in a statement to The Washington Post, writing that the company was glad it issued a Code Red. A Change.org petition called “Bring Back Joe Crain” has also been created, earning more than 15,000 signatures. This article has been updated to include a comment from the station’s general manager saying the Red Code alerts would be renamed.

Source: Huffington Post June 11, 2019 00:44 UTC