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http://reverbpress.com/business/rupert-murdoch-national-geographic-layoffs/quote:Rupert Murdoch Takes Over National Geographic, Then Lays Off Award-Winning Staff Hopefully the magazine stays the same and the lovely channel gets fixed. But I doubt señor Murdoch will let them keep up their hippy science mumbo jumbo bullshit like:  RIP Nat Geo, your pictures were awesome. Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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I really hope they don't gently caress up the only magazine I read 
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Nov 4, 2015 15:18
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Grew up reading this. My grandpa kept every issue he ever got from his own youth. He's probably going to throw his tumbler at the TV when he sees this report come up. RIP.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:20
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Drunkboxer posted:I really hope they don't gently caress up the only magazine I read they already did by firing all the staff it's dead now, there is no way it will recover, especially under that shithead's watch
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Nov 4, 2015 15:21
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nat geo is ok but it really can't keep up with other bastions of science like wired and /r/askscience
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Nov 4, 2015 15:22
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ashgromnies posted:they already did by firing all the staff Yeah this sucks. What a loving rear end in a top hat
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Nov 4, 2015 15:24
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Wow, RIP. As far as I'm concerned, the magazine is done. Rupert Mordoch is like on a war against science or something EDIT heh, didn't realize that the linked picture said the same exact thing
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Nov 4, 2015 15:25
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They had really good photographers. Now Nat Geo is gonna talk about the achieve behind creationism and poo poo.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:27
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Crazyeyes posted:They had really good photographers. Now Nat Geo is gonna talk about the achieve behind creationism and poo poo. I don't understand getting rid of the photographers and photo editors. It makes no sense to me.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:30
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welp
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Nov 4, 2015 15:30
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Murdoch 2016
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Nov 4, 2015 15:31
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Crazyeyes posted:They had really good photographers. Now Nat Geo is gonna talk about the achieve behind creationism and poo poo. In that issue with the war on science they have a picture from a creationist museum where adam and eve are in the garden of eden with a bunch of velociraptors and stegosauruses and stuff. The entire "war on science" article was tongue in cheek hilarious because it was a 14 page exposé on how dumb people are and how resistant they can be to new ideas, like a map from the mid 1800s of a flat earth with bible quotes in each corner:  Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Nov 4, 2015 15:33
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Drunkboxer posted:I don't understand getting rid of the photographers and photo editors. It makes no sense to me. Have you ever bought one of those giant Time magazine coffee table books? I was flipping through one at a family friend's house and they had some stunning pictures in it. Shame what happened to real talent and care.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:35
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Good I hope he puts more hot blondes in it.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:37
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NatGeo as we knew it is probably going to die eventually, but in the near term I assume he laid everybody off to hire them all back as contractors for 75% of their pay and no health insurance.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:42
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Drunkboxer posted:I don't understand getting rid of the photographers and photo editors. It makes no sense to me. Why keep a bunch of wildlife photographers out in the field when you're just going to put old pics of Ronald Reagan on every page now?
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Nov 4, 2015 15:43
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natgeo sounds too stilted, let's call it 'nage alright
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Nov 4, 2015 15:48
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i remember when national geographic used to have giant troll issues like where the cover said "Is evolution real?" and the very first page said "of course it is you retard". Same with climate change, I think. now theyre goign to teach teh controversy haahahaha
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Nov 4, 2015 15:52
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ashgromnies posted:they already did by firing all the staff It's going to be a much shittier magazine, but it's not like they're going to be running creation science stories or reporting on the latest evidence for noah's flood. Just worse writing, less awesome pictures, and more travel fluff. The value in National Geographic Magazine is the name brand, but the Society is still an independent organization. If they said it can't have our name on it anymore it would be a big loss. The insidious thing about Murdoch is that he doesn't believe half the poo poo his outlets run.
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Nov 4, 2015 15:55
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Klyith posted:It's going to be a much shittier magazine, but it's not like they're going to be running creation science stories or reporting on the latest evidence for noah's flood. Just worse writing, less awesome pictures, and more travel fluff. actually murdoch reallyd oes change the editorial/political tilt in a lot of the publications he purchases. see, for instance, WSJ editorials then and now. theres been a real big change. fox news is its own little fiefdom but even mainstream fox publications have a pro-giant coroproations tilt
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Nov 4, 2015 15:57
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This is the magazine that has the natural ethnic babes running around with the torpedo titties hanging out and everything
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Nov 4, 2015 15:57
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SO all those fired award winning writers are just gonna start their own magazine right? I mean it worked for giant bomb
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Nov 4, 2015 15:58
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Spanish Manlove posted:In that issue with the war on science they have a picture from a creationist museum where adam and eve are in the garden of eden with a bunch of velociraptors and stegosauruses and stuff. The entire "war on science" article was tongue in cheek hilarious because it was a 14 page exposé on how dumb people are and how resistant they can be to new ideas, like a map from the mid 1800s of a flat earth with bible quotes in each corner: im the disembodied head with a shrubbery on my face keeping watch over the earth
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Nov 4, 2015 15:59
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really hope natgeo.com becomes buzzfeed but with "scientific" articles that would own and be cool
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Nov 4, 2015 16:00
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Actually it's about ethics in torpedo titty journalism.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:01
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let's not neglect the sad looking pancake titties thaat go halfway down a lady's chest
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Klyith posted:It's going to be a much shittier magazine, but it's not like they're going to be running creation science stories or reporting on the latest evidence for noah's flood. Just worse writing, less awesome pictures, and more travel fluff. I really do see it having less articles about hard science stuff like the one about coffee where they showed production from the agricultural start to the hipster barista consumer level. There was some cool information in there about the chemicals in coffee, the culture of caffeine, the artisanal stuff and even how they make decaf coffee. So now it's just going to be "here's pictures of Bali so you can have the carrot on the end of the stick so you'll keep slaving away at your lovely job in hopes of saving enough to eventually travel here on your pittance of a vacation time."
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Nov 4, 2015 16:05
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They should just dress models up as tribes people.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:06
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I doubt the writers actually deserved awards and if they somehow did I'm sure the awards are meaningless poo poo. Even if the awards aren't meaningless poo poo and the writing was decent they deserve to be homeless for stealing the spotlight and acclaim which rightfully belongs to the animals. If I found out in a week that a NatGeo writer was butchered and cannibalized in some back alley hobo town, it would make me happy. I'm sure Murdoch feels the same way and I'm no longer surprised about how or why he's a billionaire.
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Germstore posted:They should just dress models up as tribes people. Especially if we get to see their boobS!!! 
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Baba Ganoush posted:I doubt the writers actually deserved awards and if they somehow did I'm sure the awards are meaningless poo poo. Even if the awards aren't meaningless poo poo and the writing was decent they deserve to be homeless for stealing the spotlight and acclaim which rightfully belongs to the animals. If I found out in a week that a NatGeo writer was butchered and cannibalized in some back alley hobo town, it would make me happy. I'm sure Murdoch feels the same way and I'm no longer surprised about how or why he's a billionaire. I don't think you actually read the magazine.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:09
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Spanish Manlove posted:I don't think you actually read the magazine. What difference does it make?
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Baba Ganoush posted:What difference does it make? Your opinion has no base and is worthless, please try to be useful. Thanks.
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Baba Ganoush posted:I doubt the writers actually deserved awards and if they somehow did I'm sure the awards are meaningless poo poo. Even if the awards aren't meaningless poo poo and the writing was decent they deserve to be homeless for stealing the spotlight and acclaim which rightfully belongs to the animals. If I found out in a week that a NatGeo writer was butchered and cannibalized in some back alley hobo town, it would make me happy. I'm sure Murdoch feels the same way and I'm no longer surprised about how or why he's a billionaire. same
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Spanish Manlove posted:Your opinion has no base and is worthless same
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So you're telling me with 100s of now jobless educated people, not one of the people fired is going to start a new company to compete with this? If no one does what a waste of a possibility.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I really do see it having less articles about hard science stuff like the one about coffee where they showed production from the agricultural start to the hipster barista consumer level. There was some cool information in there about the chemicals in coffee, the culture of caffeine, the artisanal stuff and even how they make decaf coffee. So now it's just going to be "here's pictures of Bali so you can have the carrot on the end of the stick so you'll keep slaving away at your lovely job in hopes of saving enough to eventually travel here on your pittance of a vacation time." Honestly if anything will go it's going to be the in depth cultural stuff.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:14
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na he's gonna re-hire that 10% full of ALEC funded "scientists" and "researchers"
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OlmanRiver posted:So you're telling me with 100s of now jobless educated people, not one of the people fired is going to start a new company to compete with this? If no one does what a waste of a possibility. Most likely they're going to get hired by Vice
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Drunkboxer posted:Honestly if anything will go it's going to be the in depth cultural stuff. Some of those were cool and some were really boring with dumb pictures so I'm not sure how I feel about this.
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