More misleading headlines from ETT

Another misleading headline from ETT

Liam Magill -Just another deadbeat Dad!
Liam Magill is often quoted and cited by SPCA and familylawwebguide. Here the story is set straight. As per most of the members he's just another deadbeat dad.

‘OFTEN’ quoted?

Let us see, there are more than 45,000 posts and documents on the FLWG site and Liam Magill is quoted (or referenced ) in 6 of them. So readers 6 out of 45,000 is OFTEN? Isn’t that stretching the imagination just a little?

Perhaps just a repeat for ETT’s benefit. In life and the sciences and social commentary the accepted method of framing a theory or conclusion is to take a series of facts, then use those facts to develop a theory or conclusion. Seriously delusional reporting is where one has already has a theory or conclusion and then selectively seeks random facts, distorts and misrepresent other facts to support a flawed conclusion– whilst at the same time deliberately overlooking facts that contradict the theory/conclusion.

In Science, this is referred to as the ‘cognitive science framing theory’ where you do not rely on evidence (facts) but rather you ‘frame things the way you want the reader to understand them to be true’ (In layman’s terms – you lie). When making social commentary this blatant bias amounts to some serious personal deception on the part of the writer. The last has some serious medical diagnoses’ – the ‘perpetrator’ is very often unable to distinguish fact from fiction or will often creation fiction, which they then believe to be fact. Some of these people are often schizophrenic, have other mental problems and often display serious anti social behaviour.

There is probably also a cash ‘shakedown’ angle for ETT reviving this old story, which we have yet to figure out.