Corporation for Public Broadcasting Report: 'No Hint of Balance in Breaking the Silence'

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[Fido969]

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Report: 'No Hint of Balance in Breaking the Silence' CPB notes: it had no role in reviewing research, production or content; CPB ombudsmen involved only post-broadcast.

MND NEWSWIRE - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting released a report Tuesday which endorsed the central charges made by fatherhood advocates protesting PBS's film Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories. CPB Ombudsman Ken A. Bode declared that there is "no hint of balance in Breaking the Silence." Bode noted: "The father's point of view is ignored as are new strategies for lessening the damage to children in custody battles. There is no mention of the collaborative law movement in which parents and lawyers come to terms without involving the court, nor of the new joint custody living arrangements.

"The producers apparently do not subscribe to the idea that an argument can be made more convincing by giving the other side a fair presentation. To be sure, one comes away from viewing the program with the feeling that custody fights are a special hell, legally, emotionally, psychologically. But this broadcast is so slanted as to raise suspicions that either the family courts of America have gone crazy or there must be another side to the story."

CPB's report praised PBS's decision to put the program under official review, noting that the film "needs to be reviewed for accuracy, fairness and balance."

The report also criticized the Mary Kay Ash Foundation, which gave $500,000 towards the production of the film and is reportedly "providing a stipend so that every battered women's organization in the country can put on private screenings of this film for their local judges and legislators." Bode noted:

"If so, PBS may find it has been the launching pad for a very partisan effort to drive public policy and law."

Bode's decision was praised by two of the protest campaign's leaders, newspaper columnist Glenn Sacks and Ned Holstein, president of Fathers and Families. Sacks noted:

"Breaking the Silence is so flawed and extreme that any fair reviewer will see the merits of our claims. Bode looked at the information objectively, instead of ideologically, and got it right."

CPB's full report can be read here. For more information on the campaign against Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories, click here. To contact Ken A. Bode, click here.

[Fido969]

This is AWESOME! When the critism of this radical feminist "documentary" first showed up, the snotty little liberals at PBS were emailing each other promising that they would ignore the "angry men" who objected to the program and run it anyway. They cooked up half-truths and lies they passed around to try to justify this garbage.

Now that it has been exposed to the light of day to outside review - not only the lies in the program, but also the corrupt culture of "liberalism at the expense of truth" at PBS has been shown for all to see.

Sweet!

[rom]

I am shocked and amazed at what I'm reading. There's always hope friends!

[Rapscallion]

I don't watch PBS at all any more. And I do not listen to NPR either. Waste of taxpayers' dollars if you ask me. We do not need it. Every possible point of view is already out here in TV and radio land. So kill the CPB, PBS and NPR. Save the money. Give the hardware to high-schools so they can learn broadcasting before college ruins them permanently.

[rom]

I hear you. Even as a kid I was always suspicious of PBS. Something just didn't seem right about that station.

I have not turned on PBS in about 4 years. I actually haven't turned on a television in about two. I subscribe to Netflix for entertainment (that I can control), the Internet for news, and Radio for commutes. Television is a desolate wasteland, and PBS is its Death Valley.

[Psycho_Bunny]

And I do not listen to NPR either.

I don't either.  Not necessarily because of their content but how they deliver it.  The affected speech of almost every employee on the station drives me insane.  I literally can't stand to listen to it.  I can't even listen to it when a company has it as their hold "music"; I just hang up the phone.

It's the very definition of "unctuous".  I can't figure out if it's that my brain just can't handle the speech patterns, or if it's because every person I've ever met who speaks that way has turned out to be a royal pain in the ass.