[Leica] National Geographic

[Howard Ritter]

I’m off to the store. We don’t have nearly enough black crepe on hand here. NGM and LIFE were the only periodicals my parents thought worth subscribing to until I got Sky and Telescope for Christmas when I was 13.

Now I understand why so much of the NG Channel’s programming is commercialized and sensationalized dreck. Drugs, Inc. Underworld, Inc. Southern Justice. Wicked Tuna. Live Free or Die. It’s been beholden to Fox’s desires for almost 20 years. Bad enough how far the magazine has strayed from its roots as it is—where does it go from here?

—howard


> On Sep 9, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> LUG:
> 
> Absolutely the worst news I have heard about publishing:
> 
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geographic-magazine-shifts-to-for-profit-status-with-fox-partnership/2015/09/09/7c9f034e-56f0-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html
> 
> Tina
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