Meteorologist Is Told To Cover Up With a Sweater On Camera, and the Internet's None Too Pleased

Over the weekend, a local news channel made national headlines for asking one of its female meteorologists to put on a sweater over her little black dress — live on camera.

Liberté Chan of KTLA 5 in Los Angeles was delivering the local forecast when someone standing off-camera dangled a sweater into her shot. "What's going on?" she asked confused. "You want me to put this on?

Yup, apparently viewers wanted her to cover up. "We're getting a lot of emails," said the male voice off-camera.

"What, really?" Chan asked incredulously, while putting the beige sweater on top of her beaded Aidan Mattox dress. "I look like a librarian now..."

Said the male voice on set, "That works!"

They weren't wrong — the emails were indeed rolling in. In a Facebook Live video right after the broadcast, Chan and her coworkers read some of the emails aloud. Viewers called her dress "totally inappropriate," saying that she looked "like she didn't make it home f-rom her cocktail party last night."

Another comment, that Chan seemed to take particular issue with: "The show's producers should not have allowed her to do [the broadcast] in a cocktail dress."

Chan can be heard on camera saying, "It's a dress, people!"

Needless to say, just as many viewers found Chan's dress problematic, even more found the network's decision to give Chan a sweater problematic.