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This has been a great story - a few years ago some radical fems decided to counter complaints that family courts are full of women making false abuse complaints by insisting instead that, no, in fact, family courts is UNFAVORABLE to women.

Even though women get custody in 85% of the cases, they claimed that women were being treated unfairly, and demanded that judges be more sympathetic to them.

This babble went through the radical feminist community like sh#t through a goose. Soon moonbats like the infamous internet feminist "liz" were spouting this pablum like their is no tomorrow - and attacking their critics by calling them "angry men" and "abusive dads". The MSM picked up bits and pieces of this story and spread it around.

This culminated in the NY NOW convention in Albany last year where the theme was the "anti-woman" family courts - and how abusive men were always getting their way in divorces. As absurd and laughable as it was, the some fems made a documentary on this topic - featuring, among other people, the woman you mention who has been claiming that she is an innocent victim of the family courts.

The lefties at PBS loved the story - women are all good victims - men are all bad abusers - what's wrong with that?

However, when this feminist victimhood fantasy was exposed to the light of day it quickly unraveled.

The film claimed that the American Psychiatric Association said that there was no such thing as Parential Alienation Syndrome - but immediately after the release of this film the APA issued a press release strongly refuting that attribution. One of the domestic violence shelters that supported the production quickly disowned the film after that saw it. One of the female "victims" in the documentary was shown to have a long history of abusing her children and assaulting her ex-husband. Dozens of claims made in the film have been debunked.

PBS' first reaction to the criticism was to refute it - about a day after this story broke generating a firestorm of critisim of PBS, PBS issued talking points and instructions to its affiliates to stonewall anyone who called in with complaints about the film. The "talking points" have been dissembled by Glen Sacks, and each one has been thoroughly refuted.

Early on in the controversy the PBS producers assured their radical feminist friend that they would not bow to the demands of the "so-called man's rights" crew - PBS promised them (behind the scenes) that they would go ahead and show the documentary despite the complaints. Dozens of DVDs of the film were shipped out to feminist groups, and many were shown at fund-raisers last month as part of "October is domestic violence awareness month".

But the pressure has mounted - there have been about a dozen national columnists who have pointed out the severe problems with this film. Connecticut Public Television has been ordered to stop distribution of copies of the film, although the feminists there involved in the original production have bitterly contested the embargo.

In a stunning reversal PBS has discontinued their knee-jerk defense of this joke (a la Rather and CBS) and made a major turn-around by launching their own investigation to review the facts presented in that film (no conservatives need apply for the reviewing board, however.)

All in all a fascinating study in the arrogance and mental isolation of the leftist "intellectual" class.