The Death of National Geographic (and some payback)
National Geographic Magazine has been bought out by 21st Century Fox, a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (and the infamous Fox News). About 9% of National Geographic’s award-winning staff was immediately laid off on the day of the takeover, the largest amount of layoffs in their history.
The sale marks a shift of the previous non-profit organization to a for-profit one, and most likely means that the long-term investigative reporting stories National Geographic is famous for will no longer be funded, in favor of shorter, shallower, more clickbaity stories.
Rupert Murdoch is a known climate change denier, and has a long history of disrespecting, misunderstanding, or flat-out ignoring science. The people working for National Geographic knew that the sale would likely mean the end of truly science-based writing.
So what did they write for their last non-Fox-affiliated issue?
An entire issue where every single article is about the indisputable scientific truth of global warming, and what it’s doing to our planet.
National Geographic as we know it may be dead, but at least it died doing what it did best - upholding science and spreading knowledge.
Not even global warming can counteract that shade.
RIP National Geographic
A truly tragic day indeed…..cancels subscription. ….. :(
damn it. I love natgeo but I hate giving money to Murdoch. not that I don’t do that every time I see a movie put out by fox, but…. I wondered why the virgin mary was on the cover of this month’s issue, heralded as the most powerful woman in the world…
I didn’t even know she was still alive. thanks, fox.
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