National Geographic Lays Off Writers;
Disney-Owned Title Will Survive On Freelancers
Deadline,
by
Lynette Rice
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
6/29/2023 12:04:08 PM
The famed National Geographic magazine has become the latest victim of those painful Disney cuts: several writers of the already picked-over publication were laid off Wednesday.
Roughly 19 editorial staffers were notified in April that the job cuts were coming, reported The Washington Post. The newspaper went on to report that freelancers will end up picking up the slack at the magazine, which is still the most read periodical in America. This is the fourth round of layoffs since ownership of the title changed in 2015. Disney took over in 2019 after the Fox deal; the National Geographic Society remains a minority partner.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
downnout 6/29/2023 12:15:43 PM (No. 1501990)
Disney is becoming the touch of death.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/29/2023 12:16:44 PM (No. 1501991)
It’s been unreadable for years. I used to read it in the 50’s and 60’s, but over time,1 it just became too liberal.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 6/29/2023 12:41:42 PM (No. 1502006)
I began my personal NatGeo subscription in early 1960s as a teen, and read it and enjoyed their amazing photography for the next 35+ years. I especially loved their space coverage, and still have a collection of their space travel issues. The photos are amazing.
At some point, IIRC, in the late 1990s they replaced the editor with a new one, and his first month he put out the notification in the magazine that it was now NatGeo policy that man made global warming was the most important thing, and ALL future articles would be focused on the impacts of MMGW on the planet.
I wrote them a short letter cancelling my subscription which was at that point, almost all of my life, and requesting a refund of the remaining value. I have never paid the slightest attention to this worthless propaganda rag in the last several decades.
NatGeo died in the lat 1990s. It is evil now. I hope it just ceases putting out it's lies.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 6/29/2023 1:00:05 PM (No. 1502021)
I didn't know anyone really read the magazine. I thought it was only a coffee table decoration.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/29/2023 1:02:26 PM (No. 1502022)
National Geographic started showing bare breasted women before Playboy. That was an attraction during early teens. But when they started pushing man made climate change I lost interest.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono 6/29/2023 1:04:32 PM (No. 1502025)
My experience with NG was similar to #3, except I didn't subscribe until the mid-80s. I, too, remember the new editor's announcement about the policy decision to view and present everything through the distorting lens of MMGW. It was a few years (3 or 4?) before SciAm had a similar change of focus. I gave both a few months to recognize their mistake and reverse it; but after neither did that, I cancelled both.
2 more wonderful things RUINED by politics.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Luandir 6/29/2023 1:21:50 PM (No. 1502040)
NatGeo played a tremendous role in my formative years. It's a pity how far they've fallen. If the end comes now, it will be a mercy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chumley 6/29/2023 1:28:24 PM (No. 1502047)
Agree with other posters. I grew up with Nat Geo. It was wonderful to see all the amazing things the world had to show. I still have a lot of my parents' back issues boxed up from the 40's through the 70's.
In the 1980's I lost interest and let my subscription expire. Not really sure why. It just wasn't as good anymore.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 6/29/2023 1:34:40 PM (No. 1502053)
I wonder if any videographers were present during the layoffs.
That way Disney could've "killed two birds w one stone."
This would've made an excellent, up-to-date Disney True-Life Adventure series.
Maybe get Al Pacino to narrate the updated series since Winston Hibler or Mel Allen aren't around anymore.
/s
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 6/29/2023 1:40:28 PM (No. 1502061)
Re #6, yes, I had a decades long subscription to SciAm, too, and dumped it when they went into MMGW propaganda mode. SciAm used to be wonderful, and is now just trash.
Leftists destroy everything they touch.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/29/2023 1:49:24 PM (No. 1502070)
I subscribed to the Smithsonian magazine in my high school years, if not earlier (this was the 70s) and like NG started going woke before anyone coined that phrase back in the 90s and cancelled the subscription.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Californian 6/29/2023 2:02:05 PM (No. 1502078)
Someone has to say it: go woke, go broke
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/29/2023 2:04:44 PM (No. 1502079)
Never subscribed to NG, don't have a horse in this game. Freelancers are cheaper than writers. Perhaps they can find an AI program that will write articles for them. Articles for free!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/29/2023 2:25:41 PM (No. 1502091)
Satan's minions have infiltrated everything. They are embedded in every institution that decent people built. They took over with an aim to kill, steal, and destroy.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
econoclast 6/29/2023 3:23:16 PM (No. 1502129)
Guessing none of the freelancers will be California residents.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 6/29/2023 3:34:15 PM (No. 1502141)
I enjoy reading and looking at old advertisements in National Geographics from the 30s to the 60s. I've read the magazine of recent years with mixed emotions. I hate the solid yellow border on the cover and worship of the global warming religion hoax is on steroids inside. Every article now seems to have a liberal/Democrat slant...from ants, Antarctica to zebras...its global warming aka 'climate change.'
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/29/2023 4:19:13 PM (No. 1502171)
Free porn was the beginning of the end.
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Re Smithsonian: I would occasionally surf across some very interesting shows on The Smithsonian Channel and pause to watch. But what I eventually learned to count on was every episode weaving a connection or reference to American slavery into the subject. No more. I quit watching.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/29/2023 4:37:26 PM (No. 1502183)
I once had a subscription to Science News, the weekly smaller version of Science. I cancelled it when I noticed the same thing.... Every Single Article had some paragraph near the end that described how humans were destroying the habitat, destroying the earth, etc. etc. etc.
I saw the same thing since the '90's when I would browse a National Geo at the doctor's office while waiting for an appointment. Finally I just stopped picking them up, preferring to either make small talk with other patients, or just sitting there in silence. All that time I never realized that the ownership -and attitude control- at National Geo had been taken over by the 'evil ones' at Disney. That explains a lot.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Hazymac 6/29/2023 5:07:56 PM (No. 1502199)
Gorons on the unemployment line--what's not to like?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
KTWO 6/29/2023 5:12:08 PM (No. 1502202)
About a year ago I bought a NG on impulse - or in a moment of madness - when I saw its topic was how propaganda, deception, etc was making traditional media and peer reviewing nearly worthless.
After a few hours I had noticed about a dozen completely unneccesary slams at Trump and a couple of other GOP pols. Not one mention of a Democrat's mistake, evasion, error, or lie.
It was my first encounter wiith a NG publication in several decades. Never again!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/29/2023 7:51:28 PM (No. 1502289)
National Geographic has gone fully worked. They aren't as bad as Disney, but they omit the truth when convenient to slam the right.
An example in one TV special the mention that JFK was threatened in Dallas by 'right-wing groups' but failed to mention he was killed by an avowed anti-American Communist.
Listen at your own risk.
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