Shelley does it again
by Geraden
The journalist Shelley Emling penned an article called More men getting a kick out of pantyhose for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
This was published on 7th August 2008. She quoted Kieran Hughes, director of Precious Collections, a distributor of hosiery products based in Britain, Deborah Ashley, managing director of Luxelegwear.com, and (my friend) Darrell Robinson, general manager of Legwear4Men.com, all citing an upturn in hosiery sales to and for men.
She also quoted Natalie Theo, fashion editor at London's Daily Mail newspaper as saying, the idea is absolutely ridiculous: "It's metrosexuality gone stark raving mad," she said.
Now Shelley has gone into print again in the Columbus Dispatch with an article published on 28th August entitled Men in tights - Retailers cite big upswing in male demand for hosiery.
Here is a good exercise in 'Spot the difference', because the two articles are substantially identical. Take a look for yourself! When you have done so, highlight the hidden white text below so that you can read it.
No scathing quote from Natalie Theo in this article. Instead Kieran Hughes comes back with: "I'm an alpha male who is married with children," Hughes said, "and I wear it myself."
Add that to the change of atmosphere from the suggestion of fetishism in the earlier article's title, to the factual and positive sounding title of the later article!
It seems to me that Shelley Emling has had a bit of a rethink about the subject! Good for her!
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They say that any publicity is good publicity, but in this case not so.
But, the 2nd article looks like we may be making progress and that there is
light at the end of the tunnel yet.
To be fair, this looks like a news wire article. They are not two separate
stories but one story that has been interpreted and re-written/edited in a
different way by two separate newspapers. Shelley Emlin would not have
written the headline, this would have been written by the sub-editor at the
newspaper. A good story has a balance of quotes about the subject in it,
for and against. It is easy for a newspaper to miss one out to make the
story more positive or negative, depending on the editorial stance of the
newspaper.
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