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PBS Propaganda Piece
December 14, 2005



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by Carey Roberts

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"The rad-fems have devised a remarkable plan for family destabilization:
fabricate a bizarre accusation, get the media to believe it, whip the
populace into a frenzy, and then pressure chivalrous legislators to pass
laws that do away with fathers."

Carey Roberts

I've never heard of a Public Broadcasting Service documentary being slammed
by two ombudsmen in the space of one week. But that's exactly what happened
to PBS' ill-fated program, Breaking the Silence.

The program, billed as an exposé of divorce courts, said that custody of
abused children is often awarded to the abusing parent. Government reports
reveal that mothers are more likely than dads to abuse and neglect their
children, and that mothers in fact are awarded child custody about 85% of
the time - so the documentary producers did have a point.

But the ombudsmen peered behind the green velvet curtain and said this time
around, the Great Wizard was trying to pull a fast one.

First Ken Bode, ombudsman for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting came
out on November 29 with a report that charged the Breaking the Silence
claims were "slanted" against fathers, "incendiary," and plain "wrong."

That would be bad enough if we were talking about a Leftist love-in like NOW
with Bill Moyers. But in this case we're talking about a factual
documentary.

Then three days later Michael Getler, ombudsman at the Public Broadcasting
Service, dropped the second bombshell, noting "there was no recognition of
opposing views," and concluded the show was an "advocacy, or point-of-view,
presentation."

But the problem with Breaking the Silence is not just flawed and unethical
journalism. Bode's greater concern was the fact that the program "has been a
launching pad for a very partisan effort to drive public policy and the
law."

What was Mr. Bode talking about?

Turns out a rogue outfit called the Mother's Research and Reference Center
was in cahoots with PBS insiders and got advance copies of the program.

Then the MRRC organized demonstrations and private screenings of the
documentary for state legislators, judges, and local activists. The idea was
to convince them to pass laws to make it almost impossible for dads to get
even shared custody of their kids after divorce.

At KVPT in Fresno, abuse professionals were made available to speak with
distraught viewers. But the counselors probably didn't have much to say
about all those female teachers who have been making headlines for jumping
in bed with their male teenage students. Or the mother who chopped off the
leg of her 20-month-old son last week.

Remember, the party line says fathers, not mothers, are the child abusers.

And in Alaska, PBS affiliate KAKM, forgetting it was a tax-exempt
organization, promised they would provide free publicity for the activists.
According to the local organizer, "The local PBS station has said they will
help us advertise and promote our event because we will then in turn promote
viewing of their screening date on 10/20."

That tidbit came to light last Tuesday, courtesy of Fox News columnist Wendy
McEloy, who invited readers to see the smoking gun for themselves.

But the Mother's Research and Reference Center didn't appreciate all the
publicity, so within days they yanked the incriminating paragraph. And a few
days later, all 17 pages that documented MRRC's mischief-making around the
country evaporated in cyber-space.

Well, not exactly. Because someone beat them to the punch and made a mirror
of the original web page.

Sorry girls, you've just been caught with your hand in the cookie jar.

The rad-fems have devised a remarkable plan for family destabilization:
fabricate a bizarre accusation, get the media to believe it, whip the
populace into a frenzy, and then pressure chivalrous legislators to pass
laws that do away with fathers.

In the 1980s, it was the myth of the deadbeat dad who callously abandons his
family. Now we have a draconian (and costly) child support system that
tosses destitute dads in jail when they fall behind on their payments.

In the 1990s, it was the ersatz epidemic of men who assault and batter their
wives. Thanks to that canard, we have the billion-dollar-a-year Violence
Against Women Act that makes divorce easy, profitable, and fun.

And now we have a bogus documentary that smears fathers as child abusers,
with the aim of keeping dads out of their children's lives after divorce.

That's the stuff of old-fashioned, in-your-face, Soviet-style propaganda.
That's what PBS did on October 20.

So next time you want to get good, solid reporting about a controversial
topic, you might do better by picking up a copy of the National Enquirer in
the check-out line.


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