The wogs were out of control. National Geographic-like specials, of which there are no shortage on PBS, featuring zebras, giraffes and gorillas in the mist, are preferred to anything remotely relating to the reality of Africa. Note how these two concepts are always conflated, a great achievement of propaganda. She was accused of Israel-bashing. Gross, by the way, dramatically demonstrated the extent of her anti-Israel bias when she refused to air an already recorded interview with Robert Friedman, author of Zealots for Zion, a book that is critical of the settler movement.
Programs featuring non-heterosexual protagonists are unacceptable.
The handful of targeted documentaries demonstrate a clear pattern. No amount of servility and subordination will satisfy the right-wing. Like the Stalinists that they are, they will tolerate no dissenting voices. Only writers with the irony and imagination of Swift, Orwell and Lewis B. Carroll could do justice the Right's assertions that public broadcasting leans to the Left. The concerted campaign of vilification and intimidation has had an impact.