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135-yr-old National Geographic magazine lays off its last 19 staff writers, may go off newsstands
The Straits Times ^ | 6/20/2023 | Keval Singh

Posted on 06/29/2023 6:36:24 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

The job cuts are part of cost-cutting measures by the magazine’s parent company, Walt Disney.

(Excerpt) Read more at straitstimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; ancientnavigation; disney; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; nationalgeographic; waltdisney
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To: Ge0ffrey

“The left did the same thing to Reader’s Digest years ago.”

YES! I used to LOVE Reader’s Digest, but it is now a shadow of its former self. And extremely left-wing.


101 posted on 06/29/2023 10:00:30 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Bon of Babble

>>>Latest this morning is the new Indiana Jones movie is a flop:
“New Indiana Jones Film Projected To Lose Millions At Box Office”<<<

Oh, dear me. Whatever will I watch now?


102 posted on 06/29/2023 10:03:15 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Sertorius

Thanks. Brings back memories. Is it possible that our nation peaked in the 1980s?


103 posted on 06/29/2023 10:11:34 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: vetvetdoug

I was just reading up on the history of R.R. Donnnelley & Sons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RR_Donnelley

I took a tour, decades ago, and the complex of all the coordinating machinery to print, made a lasting impression.


104 posted on 06/29/2023 10:15:00 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: rlmorel

Ditto Chicago Tribune Sunday edition 3-4” thick with loads of content. Now it’s a flimsy joke with liberal garbage and twice/three times the cost.


105 posted on 06/29/2023 10:21:02 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: kaktuskid

Why bother with the WWW so readily available? Like SportsIllus, NGeo was quite alluring on the newstand for its covers. Not so much, now.


106 posted on 06/29/2023 10:42:19 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Bon of Babble

I canceled my subscription to both Nat Geo and Scientific American back in 1973, both had turned into nothing more than politically correct worthless rags!


107 posted on 06/29/2023 10:53:45 AM PDT by 5th MEB
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To: rlmorel
I've never subscribed to any of them, but when I was kid we had a bunch of old issues of National Geographic my father must have acquired, from around 1940 as I recall, which had a lot of interesting articles. It's where I first heard of saunas. When I was in graduate school one of my roommate's mother worked for Scientific American and he got it for free. Seeing National Geographic issues in the library in recent years I agree with all the negative comments.

But NatGeo seems to have some good TV programs. At least the one I saw this morning was interesting and didn't seem to have any liberal agenda. One of the segments was about German U-boats sinking ships off the US coast in the first half of 1942. One victim, near New Orleans, was a passenger ship called the Robert E. Lee and there were no negative asides about Gen. Lee. The U-boat which sank the Robert E. Lee was sunk not long afterwards, the only German U-boat sunk in the Gulf of Mexico--more Germans died in that sinking than died on the Robert E. Lee.

108 posted on 06/29/2023 10:55:20 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Bon of Babble

I canceled when they had the ape boy evolution cover page...right about then everything was climate....everything woke goes to sht


109 posted on 06/29/2023 10:59:22 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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To: Bon of Babble

A great magazine once upon a time.

Then they went liberal, all the great articles and pictures on distant lands turned into leftist crap about people.

Went from National Geographic to National Sociographic.
If i had wanted that crap, plenty of liberal rags to choose from no doubt.


110 posted on 06/29/2023 11:33:20 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: linMcHlp

The RR Donnelly plant in Medford, Oregon printed all our stuff. It was wonderful doing press checks and watching their huge, massive Heidelberg press run our sig sheets through fifty feet of rollers.

The pressmen who worked it were wonderful, the best in the trade, a marvel to work with.

Of course that plant is closed now, typical America, utterly heartbreaking.


111 posted on 06/29/2023 11:49:32 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: PGR88

Who said that DeSantis was losing to Disney?


112 posted on 06/29/2023 1:50:25 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! there is no coexistence wi)
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To: linMcHlp

Correction: R.R. Donnelley & Sons


113 posted on 06/29/2023 2:12:04 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: NorthWoody

Nothing like a Hottentot Venus to get those hormones racing!


114 posted on 06/29/2023 2:37:09 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“I credit 60’s-70’s era National Geographic with making me an educated person. It did for me and many other young people what the school systems had no hope of doing, which is probably they killed it.”

I’m probably older than you at age 84, and the late 50’s it was a big mag in our household.

Later in the 1970/80’s we subscribed to it for our sons.

Later, they nicknamed it as the bare boob magazine for old hippies. We didn’t renew our subscription, and that was about the time we let a lot of magazines lapse with no renewals.


115 posted on 06/29/2023 3:34:33 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, stating things as fact, and have no idea nor reality re solutions!!)
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To: linMcHlp

W.F. Hall was originally a printing company located in Chicago and moved to Corinth, Mississippi, to get away from the Unions. It was later purchased by Krueger Ringier and then Quebecor. The Union troublemakers tried several times to unionize the plant and failed but it didn’t stop them from sabotaging the operation to attempt to hurt the companies. Finally they had enough and moved the operation overseas.


116 posted on 06/29/2023 4:13:14 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: rlmorel

I have fond memories of being awakened on Sunday mornings when I was young by the thunk thunk thunk of the LA Times landing on people’s driveways.

I have no idea what its thickness is now - I canceled my subscription 20 years ago after seeing too many puff pieces and sob stories on illegals on the front page.

I walk my dogs in the morning and I don’t see a single LA Times on anyone’s driveway around here....


117 posted on 06/29/2023 4:15:07 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: Old Grumpy

You can watch old re-runs of Gunsmoke and Tales of Wells Fargo.

There’s a brand new channel on my cable service that runs old Westerns from the 50s and 60s.

Megan Kelly reported on her show that the old Westerns re-run channel is beating MSNBC in viewership.

You can be sure those old shows weren’t tainted by political correctness and diversity. Hardly a tranny to be seen in the Old West...

My family and kids hated the 2008 “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” - we haven’t watched one since.


118 posted on 06/29/2023 4:24:04 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: 5th MEB

My dad was a scientist and loved Scientific American - saved all the old issues to re-read - he also got some archeology magazines.

I’m glad he died before Scientific American went all woke - he would hate what they’ve become.

Ditto for Nat Geo, he’d read them since the 40s.


119 posted on 06/29/2023 4:26:25 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: Wuli

I disagreed with their decision to recognize the Southern Ocean. The 60 S latitude seems...arbitrary.

I’m still in the old school camp of drawing the line between Atlantic and Pacific as the shortest line between Cape Horn and Antarctica; between Indian and Atlantic as the shortest line between Africa and Antarctica, and Indian and Pacific as the shortest line between Australasia and Antarctica.


120 posted on 06/29/2023 4:32:54 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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