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Viking Kitty · Faithful Listener Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 206

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/142005b.asp
PBS Ignored Facts, Father's Request in Anti-Fatherhood Documentary, Says Columnist

By Jim Brown, November 14, 2005

(AgapePress) - The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is being accused of portraying a known child abuser as a heroic mom. That has one national radio host comparing the situation to the "Rathergate" scandal at CBS News.

The controversial PBS film Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories features mothers who have purportedly lost custody of their children in divorce to physically abusive husbands. However, it has been revealed that one of the moms featured in the film has a rap sheet for child abuse.

Los Angeles-based newspaper columnist Glenn Sacks has uncovered documents showing PBS chose to ignore the fact that, in 1998, a California court found Sadia Loeliger guilty of eight counts of child abuse. In Breaking the Silence, she is portrayed as the victim of anti-mother bias in family courts. According to Sacks, PBS ignored facts available about the mom and her 16-year-old daughter, as well as a request from the girl's father she not be included in the film.

"The father in the case, Dr. Scott Loeliger, had been writing [to PBS] starting back in April, telling them that the mother had this history of abuse, offering to show them the documents, and asking that his daughter not be made a part of this film," Sacks explains.

"They basically ignored him for six months and went ahead and put the mother in [the film] anyway. And now it looks like they're going to be facing a libel lawsuit over it."

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which passes funds to public broadcasters, receives hundreds of millions of dollars a year in federal funding. Sacks believes Breaking the Silence is an example of why PBS should lose government funding.

"PBS's mission statement says very clearly that they're supposed to consider all views and provide balance -- and Breaking the Silence is a horrendously skewed film," says the columnist. "I mean, there's no effort whatsoever to provide any kind of balance."

He claims PBS, in this case, "cherry-picked a very small number of alleged cases where a mother had been mistreated by the family courts -- and then they pretended that this is some kind of an epidemic."

PBS -- which says the film and its content are under review -- has not issued a retraction, but continues to receive thousands of e-mails and phone calls protesting the program. It aired on many PBS affiliates in late October.
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Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.

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Percy · Knight 4 Men's Rights Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 8

All hail to Glenn Sacks for his stirling efforts in exposing the bias of the PBS program "Breaking the Silence". For a small specific audience program, Glenn has managed to generate a huge and effective response that has reached not only into homes all over the USA but overseas too. His efforts on behalf of men and fathers in particular and women in second marriages, grandparents and children from broken homes are to be applauded. He has followed through with first class research and reportage under extreme pressure from people out to discredit his message.

Being in the deep south of the world, I do not get to hear his program. My compuer is on dial up - no broadband, so voice files take an age to download, hence I have not been able to listen. But I get his newsletters which regularly update on his program content. Damn good idea.
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TerryGale · On the "Bleep" Button Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 752

I'm on dial-up too, but always found his show to load quickly. Maybe being in the US means fewer servers to go through though.
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