Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I agree in part, but you obviously are not aware of all they do. Or what it takes to produce what they produce every month for 11,000,000 readers when it still take two or three years to go from shoot to print. Or the education support, or map makers, or fact checkers (who obviously slip up once in a while), book division, etc, etc. And I disagree, the photos have not deteriorated to the same level as the writing - and even the writing isn't as bad as people say - if they understand that many of the writers aren't really writers. They are adventurers, scientists, mountain climbers, but experts in their fields. What they lack in prose is made up for with information. You don't expect Shakespeare and you won't be so disappointed. Their problem is they think TV is more important than print, and don't want to spend as much money on print as they used to. The very people who made them what they were are getting short-shrift because bean-counters are counting the wrong beans. You can bet every person in that building working in the print division of National Geographic has to justify their existence, unlike the folks over in the "golden boy" TV division. On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 06:36 AM, Rolfe Tessem wrote: > The writing, IMHO, was always terrible but one put up with it for the > quality of the photography. Now they are equally bad. If you saw the > rows and rows of offices in the National Geo building filled with > people doing essentially nothing, you would be even more outraged. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. - Will Rogers. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html