The phrase 'misleading focus' is correct and can be used in written English.
The phrase is typically used to describe something that is being discussed or highlighted that is not the most important thing to take away from the conversation. For example: "The media created a misleading focus on the celebrity's career, when they should have been focusing on their philanthropy instead."
I asked Duffy if the use of maximum numbers amounted to, as some chiliheads had complained, a misleading focus on outliers.
This is the message that our presidential candidates, media and educational institutions should emphasize — not the misleading focus on the lack of opportunity in America.
A misleading focus on the proportion of rape cases that result in conviction has left victims' needs neglected and stopped women coming forward, the author of a landmark government review said.
The new official analysis follows an inquiry into rape reporting by Lady Stern which concluded that a misleading focus on the conviction rate left victims' needs neglected and stopped women coming forward.
People like that young speaker, who had already absorbed the toxic, misleading focus of the Mail, the Telegraph, Sky and others on the few who cheat the system (while they ignore the many who don't even claim what they're entitled to).
Hanks also felt that The Fifties season as a whole, as demonstrated by The Quatermass Memoirs, had a somewhat misleading focus.
Yet the department has not told those affected because it thought it "misleading" to focus on one aspect of the reforms in isolation.
"People with power, they abuse their power". Martin Liebman, operator of Grand Manor, said it was misleading to focus on salaries and profits.
Along with members of Congress and other top administration officials, Mr. Bush and his advisers were also provided with the full, classified version of the intelligence estimate, and Republican Congressional officials say it would be misleading to focus on the abbreviated version contained in the one-page summary.
Hence, it is misleading to focus on some traditional number of personnel for the size of the Army.
Caputo-Pearl said it would be misleading to focus on the split over wages.
