‘How reporting domestic violence [allegedly] works against women in family court.’ (per TheMarshallProject.org: EIN# 46435634, reporting focus CRIMINAL justice system + ‘LongReads’ ℅ Automattic, Inc. [Runs WordPress]: reporting focus narrative storytelling) July 8, 2020. [My ShortPost, Begun May 30, 2022, but only Published, @15.7K words, July 25, 2023].

(On July 25, 2023<<~~ I decided to publish this post, AS-IS, which means, (with these updates) over 16,000 words. I am working more these days on Twitter threads and networking.

This post sprang from a genuine irritation at ongoing omissions in journalism about the family courts, and the harm such reporting doing with such spin.   Exacerbating the harm, FamilyCourtReformists [various advocacy groups] enthusiastically promoting each and every press mention among their own circles, retweeting re-tweets of retweets.  On other platforms too, from what I can tell. 

Pointers for making it through this post, eventually, given the length and how many different sections:

1) Do not attempt on cellphone! Or, probably, in just one sitting.  2) This post shows how I systematically I work, and how any analysis of a single story’s context can take on its own life.  3)  If nothing else, get to the section quoting the Association of Computing Manufacturing (ACM) 2016 article on The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth,” “Five Orders of Ignorances” and why this is so important in the fields of domestic violence advocacy and the family courts,  or the reform of such courts  4) Some of my links to off-ramped posts, with title and shortlink, aren’t yet published.  Some are, but not all.  To find out, just click on the links.  

The original start with title & link (will be repeated below):

This post’s short-link ends “‘-eD2’ and its long title is visible above, and a few paragraphs below.

My post title features the article’s descriptive subtitle;  its main title is: “She Says Her Husband Hit Her: She Lost Custody of Their Kids” published July 8, 2020, by The Marshall Project in association with Long Reads, which is now run by Automattic, Inc. (originator of WordPress).

The year was 2020, mid-pandemic lockdowns.  

Anyone want to place a bet on whether the author is going to raise, argue, (or quote someone else raising and arguing) parental alienation and reference Richard Gardner, and if so how far down in the story this comes out? 

‘How reporting domestic violence [allegedly] works against women in family court.’ (per TheMarshallProject.org: EIN# 46435634, reporting focus CRIMINAL justice system + ‘LongReads’ ℅ Automattic.Inc. [Runs WordPress]: reporting focus narrative storytelling) July 8, 2020. [My ShortPost, Begun May 30, 2022, but only Published, @15.7K words, July 25, 2023]].  (short-link ends ‘eD2’).The post title features the article’s descriptive subtitle.  Its main title is: “She Says Her Husband Hit Her: She Lost Custody of Their Kids”

The title mentions two (not three) entities. Automattic, Inc. is for-profit, The Marshall Project isn’t. Long Reads began as a Twitter hashtag in 2009 then was bought by Automattic, Inc.

July 25, 2023, LGH recommends you look for this section:

The “alternate reality of family courts“** standard reporting again raises two questions:

• Since telling the larger truth obviously isn’t on the agenda, what IS the agenda?  
• Why publish (collectively across mainstream and nonprofit media platforms) article after article which fails to even mention other parts of an easily documented and highly relevant context?  

To get to genuine answers to What IS the agenda? Why THIS type of reporting on such topics? — goes beyond, for this example, “That’s not what The Marshall Project and Long Reads are interested in” (easy enough to show; the platform’s focus) to another question:

• “Who stands to benefit (financially) from this longstanding, alternate-reality version of family courts” (and their associated fiascoes) reporting*

July 25, 2023, LGH recommends you look for this section (found before the one above).

The section I recommend contains this text (but in a different background-color:

(I looked up that phrase):

[FYI, “Where Did We Get Our Oath?” (Slate.com, 4/2004), and “The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: A Pragmatic Guide to Assessing Empirical Evaluations” (Association for Computing Machinery, Oct. 2016, Article No. 15, pp. 1-20, multi-author)]. Well-stated!

Its first reference (dated 2000) discusses The Five Orders of Ignorance.  The ACM article is discussing computer and software systems, but communicates points I’ve been making about the “family courts” field for years.

“An unsound claim can misdirect a field, encouraging the pursuit of unworthy ideas and the abandonment of promising ideas. An inadequate description of a claim can make it difficult to reason about the claim, for example, to determine whether the claim is sound. Many practitioners will acknowledge the threat of unsound claims or inadequate descriptions of claims to their field. We believe that this situation is exacerbated, and even encouraged, by the lack of a systematic approach to exploring, exposing, and addressing the source of unsound claims and poor exposition.

This article proposes a framework that identifies three sins of reasoning that lead to unsound claims and two sins of exposition that lead to poorly described claims and evaluations. Sins of exposition obfuscate the objective of determining whether or not a claim is sound, while sins of reasoning lead directly to unsound claims.

Our framework provides practitioners with a principled way of critiquing the integrity of their own work and the work of others. We hope that this will help individuals conduct better science and encourage a cultural shift in our research community to identify and promulgate sound claims.”

SINS OF REASONING LEAD TO UNSOUND CLAIMS.

SINS OF EXPOSITION LEAD TO POORLY DESCRIBED CLAIMS and EVALUATIONS.

[Below here, nothing is changed but the title (to add publication date & word-count) from original draft, as edited about one full year ago.  Basic attention to detail and context (for any article) principles still apply//LGH July 25, 2023].