[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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!

[omega4412]

National Geographic lost its compass long ago. See National Geographic, February 1937, "Changing Berlin"

Picture: "May Day masses jam the Berlin Lustgarten to hear Adolf Hitler speak... The Maypole, decorated with bunting and swastikas, represents a revival of an old folk custom formerly observed chiefly in the rural districts."

Picture: "To develop boys and girls in body and mind, and thus insure a sturdy race to defend Germany in the future, is a policy of the present government."

Picture: "Boy Scouts make a last march along Unter den Linden. As a substitute for Scout training, German youngsters now join in an institution known as the Hitler Youth organization. Its emblem is the swastika, and its wide activities and political training are enormously popular with all classes."

Text: "Across the bridge, returning from an outing, marches a group of small boys wearing the uniform of the Hitler Youth... They are singing in accurately pitched, youthul treble that moving modern national song, the 'Horst Wessel Lied.'"

Even without a compass, an astute observer in 1937 might have noticed an anti-Semitic tendency in Germany:

April 1933: Boycott of Jewish shops

April 1933: Decree forbidding non-Aryans to occupy public posts

Sep and Nov 1935 Laws excluding Jews from German citizenship

[jrp]

The Nationl Geographic Channel (cable TV) is equally slanted, at least the few times I've attempted to watch it.