A popular meteorologist has been absent from local television newscasts since criticizing a corporate weatheralert brand last week, prompting an advertising boycott, social media protests and a complaint from a U.S. senator. Joe Crain, a WICS-TV staff member in Springfield, Ill., since 2004, disappeared from the weather report after adlibbing June 5 about the "Code Red" moniker that station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group implemented as a severe-weather alert.
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