Agreed! I kept a subscription going for at least 30 years. Quit renewals about ten years ago. Just like all media they went liberal about 10-15 years ago. Such a shame.
I liked it in the '70s & '80s, but quit subscribing in the 90s after an obvious propaganda article trying to convince the readers that the black-tailed prairie dog should be on the endangered species list.
Yes, my high school library had every edition of it from the first to the whatever the current one was, although you had to get special permission to look through the old ones. It was a great periodical to browse through.
I can honestly say none of the African women pictures ever got me revved up. There was, however, a cover picture of a cute, smiley western pacific girl that got me going. My father commented on how that issue appeared to have been read many times.....
They have fallen a long way from that afghan girl's photo on the cover.... But what do you expect. I doubt most city kids even know what geography is given what teachers are pushing....
Nat Geo is owned by Disney. Why they continue to promote deviancy is beyond me. Used to be wonderful family entertainment, now it's trannies pedophiles and homo's. Sad
Nat Geo is owned by Disney. Why they continue to promote deviancy is beyond me. Used to be wonderful family entertainment, now it's trannies pedophiles and homo's. Sad
Our friends who don't celebrate Christmas took it over.
Watch the first 5 minutes, or- Ruth Paine a proven CIA agent and direct descendant of Thomas Paine. She was deeply involved in setting up Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy for the JFK assassination . She went on numerous National Geographic 'projects' around the world. NatGeo has been a CIA spy operation since its inception. A lot of 'real stuff' has to be produced in order to gain the trust of foreign governments- then the covert operations can begin.
Agreed! I kept a subscription going for at least 30 years. Quit renewals about ten years ago. Just like all media they went liberal about 10-15 years ago. Such a shame.
I used to have a collection of NatGeo magazines dating back to 1910, IIRC, given to me by my grandmother. THE most interesting to me were those printed during WWI. One with a full section with pics and directions on growing Victory Gardens. Pretty cool stuff. Stolen some time during my endless moves as a young man.
By the time I first read it as a kid, it was solidly known as an old (1800s) and well-established geographic/scientific magazine which tried to deliver its content and messages with great photography. One solid family, the Grosvenors, was prominent in the leadership during all of the 50 or so years I read it.
As with so many fine establishments serving excellent purposes, the succeeding generations of leadership/ownership diluted and polluted the fundamental purposes. Just more of the same stuff we are seeing so regularly.
Gave up on National Geographic years ago. I kept a subscription to Smithsonian magazine for another year or two until they started doing social justice propaganda every issue.
Symptoms of a decaying society. Academia and the scientific community are politically weaponized.
scumload: Not only are you ignorant and useless you are a pervert! A recent P/M to me, concerning you, described YOU as "more irritating than a booger that won't flick"! I laughed a long time over that one, and am pleased to pass along that very relevant (disgusting!) description of YOU! He-he. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Auk1124: My thoughts and my actions exactly! I think it was nearly 20 years ago I cancelled them myself. Sad in a way. I learned a lot about the world from them. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
One of my high school class rooms had the stacks from day 1 and I almost bought a complete set back in the mid 70's for about $150. I was a reader up until about 10 years back. They went from lengthy features with some depth to 1 or two page snapshots and I lost interest. I think one can acquire a complete set on DVD's for reasonable price.
Now in retirement, I'm searching the world for mid 1700's to about the 1920's books on exploration and discovery. Back then it took literally months to get to ones jump off points. Need to get another bookcase this year.
When I buy the farm, the kid will likely route those volumes to the dump.
scumload: Not only are you ignorant and useless you are a pervert! A recent P/M to me, concerning you, described YOU as "more irritating than a booger that won't flick"! I laughed a long time over that one, and am pleased to pass along that very relevant (disgusting!) description of YOU! He-he.
Good example of a very frontal smackdown in response to a sleazy smear.
