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RADAR Alert: "Breaking the Silence" = Junk Journalism
posted by Matt on 06:43 AM November 7th, 2005
RADAR Project The program Breaking the Silence has been widely criticized for bias and inaccuracy in depicting a world in which the only abusive parents are fathers. The program amounts to a libel that dads who seek child custody are wife-beaters.

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"Breaking the Silence" = Junk Journalism

In light of recent revalations (listed below), it's no longer appropriate to ask that the show be revised. The bias is so widespread and so egregious that there's no solution other than to pull the plug on this sad example of a "documentary."

The local PBS affiliates choose which shows they will air. This week, we're asking you to contact your local PBS station. Explain to them:

  1. It is now known that the filmmakers were informed on numerous occasions that one of the mothers featured in the film had been found by a court to have committed eight counts of child abuse. But the producers chose to portray her as the victim anyway. [http://www.glennsacks.com/pbs/loeliger.php]
  2. The American Psychological Association has now called the film's claims "incorrect", and says that far from having debunked PAS, the APA has no official position on PAS. [http://www.glennsacks.com/pbs/apa-102405.php]
  3. A number of people with stories of anti-father court bias have now come forward to say that the producers scheduled and then cancelled interviews with then. [http://www.familytx.org/research/articles/PAS/BreakingTheScience-OstrichSyndrome.html#rejected-interviewees]

Then request that they:

  1. Not broadcast "Breaking the Silence".
  2. Produce a documentary focusing on the plight of children abused by their mothers, and the anguish of fathers who are prevented by the courts from protecting their children.

To find your local PBS affiliate:

  1. Go to http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/index.html and enter your zip code, or
  2. Look in your local telephone directory

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Date of RADAR Release: November 6, 2005

R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting – is a network of concerned men and women working to assure that the problem of domestic violence is treated in a balanced and effective manner: http://www.mediaradar.org/.

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Agustabus (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 03:03 PM November 7th, 2005 EST (#1)
Agustabus Nondus beutondus.
Re:Agustabus (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 03:07 PM November 7th, 2005 EST (#2)
>"Agustabus Nondus beutondus."

...'the Hell...?

  Thundercloud.
  "Hoka hey!"
Re:Agustabus (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 03:49 PM November 7th, 2005 EST (#3)
uhm, for those of us who DON'T speak Latin(???), could you translate, maybe?

  Jinx
Re:Agustabus (Score:1)
by zerostress on 07:34 PM November 7th, 2005 EST (#4)
Don't bother, this is not Latin.

Zerostress
Re:Agustabus (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 09:36 PM November 7th, 2005 EST (#5)
I believe it roughly translates as ---

"Time to increase Agustabus' medications."
Re:Agustabus (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 01:08 AM November 8th, 2005 EST (#6)
I think whoever typed this was either blind drunk or just having a bit of fun. But if by some bizarre chance they were actually trying to type something coherent, the only thing I can think of is they were trying to write "De gustibus non est disputandem", which roughly means (in Latin) "matters of taste can't be disputed". Well, how this bears on the RADAR post, I have *no* idea...
Re:Agustabus (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 12:40 PM November 8th, 2005 EST (#7)
"Matters of taste can't be disputed".
Yes! That's what I meant. And yes I was trying to be clever but it obviously backfired on me. Sorry.
incredible BS (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 08:40 AM November 9th, 2005 EST (#8)
Dominique Lasseur, the producer of "Children's Stories," told me he expects to be sued, but I say he deserves a Nobel Prize for honesty for his work here. The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, which financed this effort, deserves our gratitude. And this documentary should prove again the incalculable value of public broadcasting.

See this pile of manure for yourself at
http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/pas/port.html

Leadership Council??? WTF?

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