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  • Neil deGrasse Tyson investigated by Fox, NatGeo Networks [for sexual misconduct]

    11/30/2018 9:50:01 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 74 replies
    Associated Press ^ | December 1, 2018
    Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will be investigated by Fox and National Geographic Networks after allegations of sexual misconduct were leveled against him. Patheos.com published accounts Thursday from two women who say that Tyson behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner with them. Tyson was host of “Cosmos” on Fox in 2014 and a new edition of the series was to air on National Geographic next year. Tyson has not commented publicly and an email request for comment to his representative was not immediately returned. …
  • National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage

    03/13/2018 5:46:28 AM PDT · by C19fan · 40 replies
    AP ^ | March 12, 2018 | Jesse J. Holland
    National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent. "We had to own our story to move beyond it," editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine's April issue, which is devoted to race.
  • National Geographic acknowledges decades-long coverage was racist

    03/13/2018 8:56:01 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 59 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | March 13, 2018 | Mark Molloy
    ational Geographic has admitted its past reporting on different cultures around the world was racist. The US magazine acknowledged in an editorial that for decades its “coverage was racist”, adding that the only way to rise above its past was to “acknowledge it”. For its upcoming issue, dedicated solely to race and how it “defines, separates, and unites us”, the magazine asked a preeminent historian to examine the publication’s own history.
  • Why This Hurricane Season Has Been So Catastrophic

    10/13/2017 10:01:13 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    National Geographic ^ | 10/13/2017 | By Michael Greshko
    Just as Hurricane Harvey wrapped up its devastation of Houston, Irma got into line behind it and quickly built into the strongest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. Now, Maria leaves a broken Caribbean in its wake: Dominica's rooftops and rainforests have been ripped to shreds, and Puerto Rico may be without power for months as a result of the storm. (Learn more about how hurricanes work.) It’s hard to avoid comparisons to the last time two such powerful storms threatened U.S. landfall in the catastrophic 2005 hurricane season, 12 years ago. As in 2005, when Katrina and Rita devastated the...
  • Murdoch-Owned NatGeo Channel to Promote Naming Hawaiian 'Hope' Fish After Obama

    12/26/2016 4:59:19 PM PST · by ColdOne · 50 replies
    newsbusters.org ^ | 12/26/16 | Tim Graham
    Here’s another little piece of evidence that the Murdoch family buying the National Geographic Channel isn’t turning it into a right-wing property. A forthcoming special Sea of Hope – debuting January 15 – includes footage of President Obama visiting a Hawaiian island to meet with “legendary scientist” Sylvia Earle as she shows him a new tropical fish species named after him. In the following clip, marine biologist Richard Pyle claims the fish has a “hope” logo on the dorsal fin, and asks Earle to ask the president for his permission to have a fish named in his honor, since he...
  • Vicious trolls launch wave of death threats at family of transgender girl, 9, who made history.....

    12/23/2016 7:43:57 PM PST · by Morgana · 66 replies
    dailymail.uk ^ | December 23, 2016 | Liam Quinn For Dailymail.com
    FULL TITLE: Vicious trolls launch wave of death threats at family of transgender girl, 9, who made history by appearing on the cover of National Geographic A brave nine-year-old transgender girl who appeared on the cover of National Geographic has been targeted by trolls, some of whom have called for her parents to be 'exterminated'. Avery Jackson, from Kansas, was born a boy, but announced to her mother Debi that she was a girl at the age of four. The nine-year-old made history this month when she became the first transgender person to appear on the prestigious magazine's front-page. Avery's...
  • National Geographic Puts a Young Trans Girl on the Cover

    12/17/2016 9:50:35 PM PST · by ErikJohnsky · 62 replies
    Yahoo! Beauty ^ | 12/16 | Jennifer Uffalussy
    The January 2017 issue of National Geographic features a major first in the the storied 128-year-old publication’s history — for the first time ever, the cover features a transgender individual. The special “Gender Revolution” issue features interviews with more than 80 transgender and gender-expansive youth across the globe. And most notable of all, the person who had the honor of being on the cover is 9-year-old transgender girl Avery Jackson of Kansas City, Mo. On the cover, Avery is quoted as saying, “The best thing about being a girl is, now I don’t have to pretend to be a boy.”
  • Dismal ratings for DiCaprio’s Global Warming Epic ‘Before the Flood’ – beaten by ‘Bubble Guppies’

    11/02/2016 8:08:20 AM PDT · by rktman · 31 replies
    wattsupwiththat.com ^ | 11/1/2016 | Anthony Watts
    The weekend ratings are out, and they aren’t good news for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Global Warming Epic ‘Before the Flood‘, which we reviewed yesterday on WUWT. Showbuzz Daily has listed the top 150 TV and Cable programs for the weekend, and in ‘the hottest year ever’, discussing the ‘most important topic ever’, Before the Flood came in at #61 for the weekend.
  • 'Afghan Girl': National Geographic cover star arrested

    10/26/2016 12:00:05 PM PDT · by sparklite2 · 43 replies
    BBC ^ | October 26, 2016
    An Afghan woman immortalised on the cover of  National Geographic magazine in 1985 as a  green-eyed 12-year-old has been arrested  in Pakistan for holding fake identity papers, officials say. Sharbat Gula could face a fine and up to 14 years in jail. "I object to this action by the authorities in the strongest possible terms. She has suffered throughout her entire life, and her arrest is an egregious violation of her human rights."
  • Afghan girl from National Geographic cover arrested in Pakistan

    10/26/2016 5:46:19 AM PDT · by tekrat · 19 replies
    The Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk) ^ | 10/26/2016 | Andrew Marszal
    The green-eyed Afghan refugee girl whose iconic photograph captured the world’s attention three decades ago has been arrested for living illegally in Pakistan with fraudulent documents. Pakistani police arrested Sharbat Gula, now married and in her forties, at her home in Peshawar on Tuesday, just a few miles from the border camp where the famous National Geographic cover image was taken in 1984. Her arrest followed reports that she, like many Afghans, had illegally procured false Pakistani identity cards - for herself and two men she claimed were her sons - in order to remain in the country.
  • Fr. Lombardi, head of Holy See Press Office, on how he feels about Pope Francis: "Confused."

    07/21/2015 1:40:51 PM PDT · by NYer · 13 replies
    Catholic World Report ^ | July 20, 2015 | Carl E. Olson
    The remarks come from a "National Geographic" piece, which posits that Francis was elected by "more progressive cardinals" Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard his flight from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to Rome June 6. At left is Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) The August 2015 edition of National Geographic has a lengthy essay, "Will the Pope Change the Vatican? Or Will the Vatican Change the Pope?", that has some of the usual stuff—Francis emphasizes the poor over doctrine, he has lots of Protestant/Pentecostal friends, he lives simply—but also a few things of interest. For example, the...
  • Global Warming Explorers Stuck in Blizzard (HA HA HA)

    03/19/2007 8:05:01 AM PDT · by milwguy · 13 replies · 1,028+ views
    globalwarming101.com ^ | 03/19/2007 | milwguy
    Yesterday I posted this quote from Elizabeth from the Will Steger Foundation global warming expedition to the artic.............. It felt so good to be back on trail. The weather was relatively warm for this time of year, there was little wind and the sun was shining. The mountains plunge dramatically to the ice on all sides. The U-shape of the head of the fiord ahead of us gave us a clue to the glaciations that sculpted this land, grinding away the granite to leave sheer walls of bare rock. I felt like I was inside an I-Max movie. I couldn't...
  • (MUST SEE) Vintage 1939 PHOTO: US Lawmen Dragging Fugitve Across US-Mexico Border; El Paso, Texas

    12/14/2013 12:10:34 PM PST · by DogByte6RER · 44 replies
    Retronaut ^ | 1939 | Luis Marden / National Geographic
    circa 1939: Dragging a fugitive across the border, near El Paso, Texas, USA Picture by Luis Marden / National Geographic.
  • WARNING: The Other Preppers: "We Are Your Worst Nightmare and We Are Coming…"

    11/15/2013 2:25:01 PM PST · by dynachrome · 71 replies
    Shtfplan.com ^ | 11-15-13 | Daisy Luther via Shtfplan.com
    If there was ever a case study on why preppers should be prepared to defend their supplies, the upcoming episode of National Geographic’s Doomsday Preppers would provide a perfect example. ---------------------------------------------------- National Geographic appears to have chosen Smith as a poster boy to give the preparedness-minded a bad name. I wouldn’t set your DVR for this one – excerpts seem to indicate a show full of bad advice and ill-thought-out “strategies” from someone who refers to himself as “a professional deer hunter
  • Expert: “What People Have Got to Know is That They’re On Their Own, Literally…”

    10/27/2013 4:18:35 PM PDT · by Kartographer · 146 replies
    SHTF Plan ^ | 10/27/13 | Mac Slavo
    Over coming weeks millions of Americans will be tuning in to NatGeo’s new American Blackout film about surviving in a post-power grid collapse environment that lacks electricity, fresh water and the normal flow of commerce. For most it will be nothing more than standard evening entertainment, but what if such an event turns out to be a future American reality? Such a scenario may seem improbable, but just in the last several years we’ve seen it play out time and again all over the world, albeit in situations limited in time and scope. Hurricane Katrina and over 50,000 people stranded...
  • Don’t miss the ‘Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?’

    02/07/2013 8:50:46 PM PST · by SandRat · 8 replies
    Scout Email | BSA
    But with less than four weeks until the premiere of Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout? on the National Geographic Channel, news about the series is coming faster than you can say “Be Prepared.” We already know the series debuts at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. Central) on Monday, March 4. Today’s scoop: A new website for the show, toughscout.com, just launched. The site channels excitement surrounding the show into a recruiting pitch for boys and girls who get inspired to sign up for Scouting. It encourages current Scouts to share their Scouting adventures on Instagram and Twitter. And it’s...
  • GLAAD protests Nat Geo's collaboration with Boy Scouts

    01/23/2013 8:38:07 PM PST · by Houmatt · 13 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 1-23-2013 | Alexander C. Kaufman
    The advocacy group backed a Change.org petition started by Will Oliver, a 20-year-old gay Eagle Scout, that calls on Nat Geo to air a disclaimer clarifying the network's views before each episode of its new series, "Are You Tougher than a Boy Scout." It debuts this spring. "That National Geographic would brush aside countless gay teens suffering at the hands of the BSA, shrugging off injustice as just another ‘point of view,' is irresponsible," GLAAD president Herndon Graddick said in a statement. "By airing this program, National Geographic is providing support and publicity to an organization that harms young people...
  • Navy SEAL Group Will Air Anti-Obama Ads During Harvey Weinstein's 'SEAL Team Six' Film

    10/27/2012 4:05:27 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 36 replies
    US News ^ | October 25, 2012 | By Elizabeth Flock
    A group of Republican-leaning Navy SEALs is battling with movie mogul and Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein for voters' attention Nov. 4, just two days before Election Day.The Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, a political action committee made up of former special operations and intelligence members, says it will air an anti-Obama ad in key swing states during the prime-time debut of Weinstein's new "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden." The dramatic film, which prominently features President Obama's role in the raid that killed bin Laden, will debut on National Geographic and release on Netflix the following day.OPSEC's...
  • Cast Defends Timing of Film on Bin Laden Raid

    10/27/2012 2:36:14 PM PDT · by QT3.14 · 28 replies
    Military.com ^ | October 26, 2012 | John Carucci
    The team behind the television movie "SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden" is saying the film was not recut to give a starring role to President Barack Obama two days before the presidential election. National Geographic Channels CEO David Lyle says the film was indeed recut - but to show less footage of the president than an earlier version of the film.
  • NatGeo Sees No ‘Taboo’ in Teen Sex

    07/09/2012 9:35:01 AM PDT · by CHRISTIAN DIARIST · 20 replies
    The Christian Diarist ^ | July 9, 2012 | JP
    The latest episode of “Taboo” aired last night on National Geographic Channel. It explored the issue of “Teen Sex.” One segment introduced viewers to the Kreung people of Cambodia, who build “love huts” for their teen-aged daughters to have pre-marital sex with as many teen-aged boys as they like. Another featured 15-year-old Australian tart Cassie Osborne and her teen-aged girlfriends, wearing barely-there dresses, practicing their sexual flirtation, looking forward to becoming some young bloke’s boy toy. And yet another took a look at Purity Balls here in the United States, in which teen-aged girls pledge to remain pure and abstain...