Current, the biweekly newspaper covering American public broadcasting, recently discussed the campaign against PBS's Breaking the Silence, and  described the attacks on the film as "withering."

The piece, written by Current Senior Editor Karen Everhart, cites media coverage of the protest by Fox News, the Boston Globe, and others, and discusses defamed father Scott Loeliger's pursuit of legal action against PBS.

Protesters claim Breaking the Silence is a "direct assault on fatherhood," and that it "portrays fathers as batterers and child molesters who steal children from their mothers." They seek a chance to respond to the film on the air. PBS affiliates in Houston, Texas, Columbus, Ohio and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania have recently aired fathers' perspectives on the issues discussed in Breaking the Silence.

Everhart noted:

"Glenn Sacks, a columnist and advocate for men's rights, leads the right-wing e-mail campaign, and has published court documents that paint a different picture of a mother portrayed heroically in Breaking the Silence."

Sacks bristled at that remark, saying:

"Labeling the fatherhood movement 'right-wing' is one of the methods feminists use to try to marginalize us and paint us as extreme. What's extreme is the way the producers of Breaking the Silence cherry-picked a few highly unusual cases and pretended that they represent a widespread problem.

"This campaign is neither right-wing nor left-wing--it's about fairness for fathers and their children. Children have a right to have their fathers in their lives. That's something everybody should be able to agree on, including Everhart, Current, and PBS."