Posted on 09/10/2015 11:38:18 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
There’s a thing called the internet, you can listen to ANYTHING now. Even radio airchecks from decades past. Or podcasts or small market radio stations/programs, etc.
Who needs NPR?
it never was a science journal...... it was all about geography and maps, exploration and topless native women
Leafing through old NGs is a pivotal part of any youngsters’ development.
It opens up new worlds to young minds.
I noted that the articles were much more literate and fact-based in the old days.
Every home with kids should possess a large pile of old NG magazines.
Years ago, someone made the point that they call it pornography when it’s a white woman and anthropology when it’s a black woman.
A brutally, truthful observation.
“If we don’t figure out how to give more support to public and non-profit media, there’s no guarantee that the next “Sesame Street”—or, for that matter, the next National Geographic—will even get off the ground.”
So government financed TV guarantees that the next Sesame Street or Nat Geo will get off the ground? Wow what arrogance. Of course the author will be glad to tell us what should be financed.
Liberals of course believe the 1st means “right to be heard” which means someone has to be forced to pay for their idiotic speech. They just haven’t yet figured out hot to make us listen, and then respond according to their wishes. But they are getting around to it.
The amount paid? 725 million is listed for the Murdoch deal. What they are getting? It’d be curious....if they revert back to the old standard....tens of thousands of people would re-engage with the subscription business.
NG is an iconic brand. Like the Boy Scouts. The left infiltrates these institutions to surreptitiously influence the body politic.
With the Muslims destroying all the ancient historical sites, what will NATGEO be doing stories on ?
Life Insurance talk
I agreed with that philosophy from the late 60’s to the late 90’s. Over the past fifteen years...no. I wouldn’t advise any kid to waste time with the slanted material that NG puts out.
I will readily admit...between NG and Argosy Magazine...it was probably half my knowledge base as a twelve-year-old kid. A guy could write up a six-page essay on head-hunters in the Pacific and I’d absorb every single word of the whole article. Go look at NG today...they probably haven’t done a head-hunter essay in thirty years. How many global warming essays per year on average? I’ll bet at least forty-related articles from 120-odd essays that they publish.
In the old days. NG today is just leftist propaganda.
In the middle of our homeschooling years in the early 2000s I ended the subscription.
really , I always understood it as an euphemism for the farmer dying and his insurance paying the mortgage.
“A bastion of popular science is now controlled by a very prominent climate change denier”
well, well, well... the propaganda of the leftist progressives might be challenged. GOOD science is ALWAYS about challenging the status quo. The arrogance of the LEFTist scientists has stymied real research into climate change for far too long. Maybe “real” science will be placed on the pages of this once awesome magazine.
I’m really enjoying the Progressive hand-wringing on this.
I waded into a FB debate on the subject last night. In response to some Proggie’s “I dont want them to become biased” lament I said:
“They already are. Or don’t you believe portraying Moon landing conspiracy theorists as mainstream and widespread in order to attack religious belief* to be bias?”
* that was in their recent “War on Science”’ edition btw.
You still can find neat stuff in them, occasionally. Their coverage and sponsorship for Ballard’s expeditions for instance. AND remeber that they helped sponsor the raising, excavation and preservation of the CSS Hunley.
So there’s still a bit if the old Nat Geos I loved to brouse through and buy for $0.25 a pop at church book sales left in the place.
buy the farm. To die, espescially in combat; most likely from the idea that a dead soldier's death benifit would serve to pay off his family's morgtage.
Just the pictures of those African tribes though. :-)
Last year my family subscribed to NG for one year for a special rate of $ 12. We charged it to a credit card. Last month the credit card showed a NG renewal at $ 19. We did not intend to renew but somewhere in all the papers we had agreed to perpetual renewals. On my phone call they agreed to unsubscribe us.
I’ve noticed a lot of companies are using that ploy, whereby you have to opt-out or you’re in forever.
Just as many totalitarian leaders do, the superficial propaganda of “Church, Cooking, Children” served the state by not alienating the church, and keeping the woman working hard in their ordained role. We see this again with Putin’s octopal embrace of the Russian Orthodox Church with his tentacles. We had Franco in Spain and the Catholic Church, etc. etc. Of course these people were all murdering scum.
My mom got me a subscription when I was a kid, I enjoyed it, then.
Sesame Street is on HBO now?
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