I think NatGeo may have made some better decisions for itself the last four years if it had not become part of Disney in 2019.
I think many units (conpanies) of conglomerates are not in fact “saved” by the conglomerate but merely used to bolster the “size” of the conglomerate as if growth in size alone is an improvement. I remember many smaller companies absorbed by Microsoft but went there only to die in a few years.
I once had many years worth of complete sets of Nat Geo, in their binders. Then I was looking at selling them and in the process found you can get whole the years worth of printed Nat Geo magazine, digitized onto CDs/DVDs. I realized that undercut selling my old bound printed versions and tossed them out in the paper recycling collection.
It had become hopelessly leftist and preachy long before Disney. Scientific American has also reached a vomit inducing level of unreadability. The Economist is halfway there.
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.