More in misleading headlines

[asterroc]

CNN's outdone itself in a headline that reads the exact opposite of reality.

Headline: "Gal wearing 1 dress every day for year"

My reading of it: "Gal wears a different dress every day for a year, for a grand total of 365 dresses." Curious what the big deal was (and out of non-work things to do on the intertubes), I clicked.

Reality: "Gal wears the same dress for a year, for a grand total of 1 dress." Social activist, Sheena Matheiken, from India got her designer friend to make a versatile dress, 7 copies of it in fact. Matheiken is wearing one of the 7 copies every day for a year, accessorizing it to the hilt, and raising donations for education in India.

CNN Video
The Uniform Project

Comments

[q10.livejournal.com]

it's all kinds of ambiguous, but i gotta say my first reading was closer to the intended one than yours. still confusing/ill-chosen/unnecessarily ambiguous, but i think you're overstating the complaint a little.

(also, going through 365 dresses in a year, wearing each one only once, wouldn't be that unusual, but it would be sort of a horrifying example of gratuitous consumption.)

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

That isn't one dress, that is seven dresses of the same model.

Edit: I have three pairs of kirkland brand blue jeans. All the same size, color, etc. This is three pairs of pants, not one.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know. The CNN video made it out to be "1 dress" and I had to hunt down the website of the project to learn that it was actually 7 identical dresses.