Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >> Emanuel Lowi wrote: >>>> I was a long-time subscriber to National Geographic but cancelled my >>>> subscription this past year for two reasons. First, I feel that the >>>> quality of the pictures in the magazine has declined dramatically >>>> over >>>> the past number of years. I can't put my finger on when it >>>> happened, but >>>> over the past decade there has been a definite deterioration. Same here. The photography has really taken a nose dive. Very commercial looking stuff. Worst of all the quality of writing has declined to the lowest common denominator level. These days NG sounds more like Popular Mechanics fluff, than the class act it used to be. Feli _______________________________________________________ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin feli2@earthlink.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html