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Terribly depressing. I've been buying NG for a decade and now have a whole row in my bookshelf of yellow spines. It is very disheartening to think that someth

Terribly depressing. I've been buying NG for a decade and now have a whole row in my bookshelf of yellow spines. It is very disheartening to think that something as political as Fox and Murdoch can have 73% control of it and presumably influence it editorially, as well as using it to uplift and give weight to the Fox brand :(

ghostDancer 11y ago
Don't tell me boxes of yellow magazines since year 1985 and now i'm thinking in cancel my subscription.
Symbiote 11y ago
Is there a good alternative? I planned to subscribe after I moved house, but the Murdoch purchase was announced in-between.
- amk_ 11y ago
  Smithsonian is pretty good. They don't do the maps and pullouts but they cover lots of similar ground (and are also a non-profit).
  - disposition2 11y ago
    I like the Smithsonian but the whole change of requiring print subscribers to re-purchase the digital copy, with no forewarning...just applied the changes in an app update made me cancel my subscription. It's unfortunate because I like the magazine and the organization but the only way I can fight practices like that is to simply not give them money. Edit: same for NatGeo, long time subscriber that cancelled because I refuse to knowingly give a dime to Murdoch and Co.
wtbob 11y ago
> It is very disheartening to think that something as political as Fox and Murdoch can have 73% control of it and presumably influence it editorially Have you been reading NatGeo this past decade? It's already become as political as one can imagine, just in the other direction.
- willvarfar 11y ago
  > Have you been reading NatGeo this past decade? I have read it cover-to-cover every time. I've thought it getting more pro-oil pro-banking, actually, so that just shows how subjective these things are. I'm a brit abroad and I wish it had a more science, nature, anthropology and everything else slant. Last months article on the new missing link finds was really interesting, but I won't miss all the American-centric stories one iota.

ghostDancer 11y ago

Don't tell me boxes of yellow magazines since year 1985 and now i'm thinking in cancel my subscription.

Symbiote 11y ago

Is there a good alternative? I planned to subscribe after I moved house, but the Murdoch purchase was announced in-between.

amk_ 11y ago
Smithsonian is pretty good. They don't do the maps and pullouts but they cover lots of similar ground (and are also a non-profit).
- disposition2 11y ago
  I like the Smithsonian but the whole change of requiring print subscribers to re-purchase the digital copy, with no forewarning...just applied the changes in an app update made me cancel my subscription. It's unfortunate because I like the magazine and the organization but the only way I can fight practices like that is to simply not give them money. Edit: same for NatGeo, long time subscriber that cancelled because I refuse to knowingly give a dime to Murdoch and Co.

wtbob 11y ago

> It is very disheartening to think that something as political as Fox and Murdoch can have 73% control of it and presumably influence it editorially Have you been reading NatGeo this past decade? It's already become as political as one can imagine, just in the other direction.

willvarfar 11y ago
> Have you been reading NatGeo this past decade? I have read it cover-to-cover every time. I've thought it getting more pro-oil pro-banking, actually, so that just shows how subjective these things are. I'm a brit abroad and I wish it had a more science, nature, anthropology and everything else slant. Last months article on the new missing link finds was really interesting, but I won't miss all the American-centric stories one iota.