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Lol @ how scandalous it apparently is to show a woman's bare arms in the US. May as well have shoved a burka in her hands: "put this on ASAP, people are outraged".
What she wore is no big deal compared to meteorologists in many other countries.
And as someone else already alluded to, it was her co anchor who handed her the cardigan on air, not a producer, and it was done as a gag and a joke...not as admonishment. Everyone at the station thought the complaining emails coming in were funny and they decided to run with it. Chan's statement:
"For the record, I was not ordered by KTLA to put on the sweater. I was simply playing along with my co-anchor’s joke, and if you’ve ever watched the morning show, you know we poke fun at each other all the time."
What is "professional" is a matter of opinion, and at the end of the day, it is what her employer dictates. Her employer had no issues with her dress, and the handing of the sweater was just merely a joke.
Lol @ how scandalous it apparently is to show a woman's bare arms in the US. May as well have shoved a burka in her hands: "put this on ASAP, people are outraged".
What she wore is no big deal compared to meteorologists in many other countries.
The public reaction to the outfit is yet another indicator that many people (very few of whom are religious extremists, who probably avoid standard TV) have a problem with how weather girls dress and likely also object to how many women dress on their own time. Viewers absolutely have a right to complain, and TV stations should pay attention to that. If stations don't please their viewers, their ratings suffer. In a way, viewers collectively are part-owners.
And KTLA's high morning ratings are a surprise to me, presuming the trend continues in 2016, but that doesn't mean Chan or her style deserves much credit for that.
I didn't see any problem with her attire. It was a dress. I didn't see anything that would make me think it was as grossly inappropriate as people are saying.
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Lol @ how scandalous it apparently is to show a woman's bare arms in the US. May as well have shoved a burka in her hands: "put this on ASAP, people are outraged".
Not inappropriate as in too sexy or whatever, inappropriate as in wearing white tennis shoes with your black suit at work. Or dress shoes with ankle socks and tennis shorts. Or wearing your favorite Hawaiian shirt to a business meeting with VIPs.
This is the fashion forum so we are talking a fashion faux pas, not OMG she looked like a hooker.
The public reaction to the outfit is yet another indicator that many people (very few of whom are religious extremists, who probably avoid standard TV) have a problem with how weather girls dress and likely also object to how many women dress on their own time. Viewers absolutely have a right to complain, and TV stations should pay attention to that. If stations don't please their viewers, their ratings suffer. In a way, viewers collectively are part-owners.
And KTLA's high morning ratings are a surprise to me, presuming the trend continues in 2016, but that doesn't mean Chan or her style deserves much credit for that.
Yea, but exactly what would the line be for a legitimate number of complaints? All I read so far is a "few" emails came in complaining. That could be three emails or 30 for all we know; is that enough for a station or anyone to make any changes to anything?
Additionally, there were plenty of people complimenting her dress; so should they not take those into account?
Should people be proactive when they do not have a complaint? I mean the only time anything makes it into the media or action is taken is when there are complaints, even one Twitter seems to be jumped on, while ignoring the fact thousands, maybe millions of others had no complaints at all about said action.
Chan's style does not get much credit for the ratings, she is one of the primary cogs in the wheel that create the ratings.
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Sorry I can't rep you yet. She was really cute wasn't she. 
