(11-19-2022, 10:34 AM)BIAD Wrote: Here's a simple one where word-smithing is heavily relied on to report the basic facts, yet not approach the full meaning
of what a preferred person -in this case, Elizabeth Holmes, actually did. The BBC used to be experts in narrative-forming,
but with standards dropping through diversity-overrides-qualified-Journalism, their bar has severely lowered.
Quote:Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes jailed for fraud
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Holmes, 38, who is pregnant, tearfully told the court she felt "deep pain" for those misled by the scam.
Oh, I'm certain she felt "deep pain", but question her claim that it was due to "those mislead", and am more inclined to believe that it was because she got caught. Her "deep pain... for those mislead" was conspicuously absent when the misleading was afoot...
As far as the pregnancy goes, women have been manipulating children to get themselves off the hook for centuries. Pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, both paramours of Calico Jack Rackham and members of his crew, "plead their bellies" - i.e. plead pregnancy - at their piracy trials in late 1720 or early 1721, and had their sentences put off until after the birth of their children. Mary Read died of a fever in prison awaiting her hanging in April, 1721, but there is no record of Anne Bonny ever hanging or even dying. She simply disappears from history after the trial, which I am certain had nothing to do, nothing at all, with her pappy being a muckey-muck in the Carolina Colony... So she simply disappeared in April 1721 at the tender young age of 24. There's just no way she could have been spirited off to the Carolina Colony to live out her days in obscurity, now is there?
Point is, it's a tried and true defense, with a long tradition. Pity it dinna work for this lass, now ain't it?
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