RIP National Geographic

[SlyPokerDog]

Deal Gives Fox Majority Stake in National Geographic Media

WASHINGTON — The 127-year-old nonprofit National Geographic Society has struck a $725 million deal that gives 21st Century Fox a majority stake in National Geographic magazine and other media properties, expanding an existing TV partnership.

The agreement announced Wednesday will give the company controlled by Rupert Murdoch's family a 73 percent stake in the new National Geographic Partners venture. The society retains 27 percent ownership. The move shifts the longtime nonprofit flagship magazine into a for-profit venture.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/09/09/us/politics/ap-us-national-geographic-fox.html?_r=0

 

[barfo]

Does this mean they'll be printing more, or fewer, pictorials on primitive tribes and their half-naked females?

barfo

 

[jlprk]

As a kid I put the foldout maps on my wall. Now I'll hang the foldout portraits of Rupert Murdoch.

 

[crowTrobot]

Does this mean they'll be printing more, or fewer, pictorials on primitive tribes and their half-naked females?

It means even more "Finding Noah's Ark" type programs will be broadcast on science channels.

 

[jlprk]

Shark Week!!!

I can't get enough!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Fox is going to license the shit out of the National Geographic name.

"The new National Geographic edition Ford F150!"

"If it doesn't say National Geographic on the ass, these aren't world exploring jeans!"

"New National Geographic Viagra, make your penis constant in any continent!"

 

[jlprk]

You're an explorer. This will be easy for you to navigate. Just give us your personal information.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150910-human-evolution-change/

Murdoch's news changes the human story. But how?

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

The end of free sex education......

 

[ripcityboy]

Ugh. Another decent publication now open to flimsy fact checking and unsubstantiated claims. Whenever I think of Murdock, I think of Kevin Kline's Murdock-inspired character in Fierce Creatures....

"You ruined my life!"

"How could I? I wasn't even there!"

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Shark Week!!!

I can't get enough!

last years shark week was just shows with hosts reading peoples tweet about shark week. i wanted to cry, then i had beer. shark week is now beer week

 

[ripcityboy]

last years shark week was just shows with hosts reading peoples tweet about shark week. i wanted to cry, then i had beer. shark week is now beer week

"Dad. What are you doimg? It's shark week!"

"Alright. That's it! No TV for a month."

You're f-cking high!"

 

[dviss1]

Deal Gives Fox Majority Stake in National Geographic Media

WASHINGTON — The 127-year-old nonprofit National Geographic Society has struck a $725 million deal that gives 21st Century Fox a majority stake in National Geographic magazine and other media properties, expanding an existing TV partnership.

The agreement announced Wednesday will give the company controlled by Rupert Murdoch's family a 73 percent stake in the new National Geographic Partners venture. The society retains 27 percent ownership. The move shifts the longtime nonprofit flagship magazine into a for-profit venture.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/09/09/us/politics/ap-us-national-geographic-fox.html?_r=0

 

[magnifier661]

 

[jlprk]

NG used to use elegant language.

No one, it seems, has ever seen anything like it. Why was this guy decapitated? Why the weird posing of the hands 9,000 years before Madonna popularized the ‘vogue’? And where’s the rest of him?

“I’m not a decapitologist,” he says. (That’s not a real title, but given the number of severed heads in human history, maybe it should be.)

Lapa do Santo, incidentally, is also where the oldest human skeleton in South America was found, named Luzia, and the oldest rock art, which turns out to be a carving of a man with a giant phallus, dubbed “Little Horny Man.”

So yes, our hunter-gatherer ancestors sound just as interested in skulls and penis art as your average teenage boy today. But before you snicker, remember that these fascinations pop up all over the world throughout human history: sex and fertility, obviously, but also skulls.

The writer is a female chauvinist pig.

 

[MARIS61]

Does this mean they'll be printing more, or fewer, pictorials on primitive tribes and their half-naked females?

barfo

Lots more, but they'll be grainy and out of focus.

National Geographic has always been the supreme quality standard by which photojournalism was measured.

There has never been a close second.