PBS re-emerges with "Breaking the Silence"

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2009-12-16 22:01

Via Jeremy S., via DADD-SC:

Once again, The Battered Mothers Conference and PBS are distributing and showing the documentary, "BREAKING THE SILENCE, Children's Stories."

This film came out in 2005. It was produced by notorious feminazis, and filmed in a battered women's shelter. The numbers they quote (70% of custody decisions favor abusive fathers) are blatantly spurious. They want everyone to believe that judges and marital masters give preference to abusive men in custody decisions. That flies in the face of common sense and several hundred objective studies. Moreover, the main protagonist in the film was HERSELF convicted in three separate cases, of abusing her children. Note that several of the children featured in the film DENIED on camera, that their father had ever been abusive. It's not unexpected that the mothers in the film are obviously ALIENATING their children against their fathers, even as they try to deny the validity of Parental Alienation Syndrome.

When the film first came out, the outcry was loud. PBS was forced to review the film, and concluded that the criticisms were VALID. The PBS ombudsman issued a statement renouncing the film, and assured us that it would be removed from their distribution list. Yet here it is again. We are urging all fathers to visit the Battered Mothers website, click on the appropriate links, and send their comments to PBS and the sponsors of the conference. PBS contact: pmitchell-at-pbs.org.

Paul Clements
DADD-SC

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Try this http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/feedback.html

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Submitted by charlie on Wed, 2009-12-16 22:45

thanks for the updated link! I used it as I would question the effectiveness of going through the other site - there must be some reason it's called 'battered mothers'.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2009-12-17 08:40

    The PBS ombudsman issued a statement renouncing the film, and assured us that it would be removed from their distribution list.

This doesn't prevent groups from exploiting the film, does it? Can't a group use a recording with or w/o PBS' blessing? Does the ombudsman have any control at all over this? That's the problem. I thought that once the film had aired, groups could show it to judges, lawmakers, police officials, even run it in mens rooms if allowed. Can we realistically do anything other than picket? I don't understand.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Thu, 2009-12-17 18:01