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From a New York Times style story on the roughed-up appearance many TV weathermen took on during Hurricane Sandy:
Outdoors, all those parkas and rain jackets have the unfortunate effect of making serious journalists appear less so, and none looked less professional than the shapeless red jackets on CNN. The image of the business reporter Ali Velshi, in a red windbreaker, stumbling pitifully in the Atlantic City rain for hours, made for a memorable contrast with that of Anderson Cooper, who wasn’t having any of that.Mr. Cooper, reporting from Asbury Park alongside Rob Marciano (dressed, like Mr. Velshi, in CNN-issued red), was layered up in a spiffy storm jacket from Carhartt.
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