National Geographic loses its compass

Israel Insider ^ | 10/3/2002 | Andrea Levin

[Israel Insider]

A ten-page National Geographic piece is filled with anti-Israel dogma - the magazine should have checked facts and upheld ethical standards of reporting.

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[Catspaw]

Thanks for this article. We had subscribed a while ago, and we keep getting tempting subscription offers. Now I can throw them away with the rest of the junk mail.

[doodad]

I agree. NG was my childhood favorite. My grandmother had every issue back to early 1900s, my favorite being the ones with the hand tinted photos. Perry journeys to North Pole! I subscribed for my daughter some years ago and looked forward to every issue. Then, new editor and the entire thing became a wing of greenpeace. Even if the article was about guano there would be reference to man's destruction of .... Good riddance. I can check it out at the library if I have to read an article.

[reformedliberal]

As well, they write spin for the Greens and when they write Chicken Little garbage about areas we know well (Upper Mississippi and Great Lakes), they are defensive when confronted with lies and manipulated stats and slanted anecdote.

We have a free business subscription and will not renew.

[Uncle Miltie]

They long ago becames a mouthpiece of the left. Now it has beautiful photography and propagandistic cant. I won't have it in my house.

[goodnesswins]

I had the same experience as you - my great-grandmother had years of copies my siblings and I used to peruse, and I believe they got a subscription for us (the 1950's)....but when I subscribed a few years ago I was disappointed with the changes - as others have said - the enviro wackies have taken over....it's just not worth the money or indoctrination.

[kregger]

Here is the contact email for the national geographic magazine: ngsforum@nationalgeographic.com
Maybe we should let them know what we think of their biased reporting.

[philetus]

Thanks for the link.

[NativeNewYorker]

GMTA.

I've subscribed with the intent of giving them to my kids to read when they're old enough, but the text is now, as everyone here has noted, leftist spew.

It is really REALLY a shame, but I'm going to let it expire, and quietly throw away all the issues I've saved, because the Watermelon Dogma (Green outside/Red within) is just too much.

[anymouse]

ping to drop the watermelons at NG.

[snarkpup]

My grandfather started my subscription in 1960 and I kept it going for 30 years. I eventually cancelled it as the travel pieces gave way to non-stop enviro-whining.

[MindBender26]

Agreed. Called and cancelled by subscription today.

Years ago, it was the only way I could bring pictures of topless women into the house.... but today, who wants to see some supposed Palestinian with no clothes on!

[RightWhale]

Now it has beautiful photography and propagandistic cant

Dropped my subscription several years ago. I generate enough trash on my own, don't need it delivered by the Post Office, too.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I lost all my respect for them when they ran an article a few years ago on finding an isolated new-stone age culture in the Philipines.

Turns out that it was a hoax that NG bought into hook, line and sinker.  A rudimentary fact check would have shown this.  But they wanted it so much to be true, that they bought the whole schmear.  I never did find out if they printed a retraction or not, but considering everything, I seriously doubt it.

[pepsionice]

The NG was the best learning tool for any kid, who was 12 to 15 years old. After I left home, I occassionally picked up a copy at the airport to read on long flights. But three years ago, I finally subscribed to it again. While there were moments of brilliant geographic journalism...I would say that 40 percent of the magazine is now bio-environmentalism. They have taken the side of Arabs whenever possible. And they rarely tell a even story. Any chance to open and even-handed, which is what I would expect of the old NG....is completely gone. I plan on letting my current subscription run out.

And another similiar magazine, Arizona Highways....has gone the same direction. I used to respect it greatly back in the 80s. But in the past 5 years, it has gone bio-environmental as well. Most of the stories tend to be pointed toward bad land practices, poor zoning laws, and anti-urban development.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Like the Smithsonian, they have lost their way left.

[RightWhale]

I have let several subscriptions to journals lapse, even cancelled a couple in the middle of the subscription period because of the magazine's developing political slant. About all I have left are technical journals: 4 or 5 physics journals and Bass Player. Physics journals have to be watched because sometimes they get a radical political article or two. So far, Bass Player magazine has stuck to nuts and bolts, so it's okay.

[DonQ]

Cockburn has a long history as a hired flak for the Arabs, as well as unpaid apologist for Moslem intransigence. The Village Voice dumped him, so it surprises me that the National Geographic hired him.

[Grampa Dave]

About ten years when they got in bed with the hostile Watermelon Greens, I stopped my subscription to them.

The older magazines are like treasures. The ones that started mouthing the Watermelon Agendas and other left wing agendas are in the same category as Rosie's magazine that is going out of business.

[Grampa Dave]

I bet a large part of their funding has come from the Opecker Princes and the Islamafascists who control the Islamakazis!

Just follow the blood money from the Opecker Princes, the mullahs of hate in Iran and the Islamafascists of Iraq for what drives most left wing mediots!