A significant change (not unexpected) RE: "NGM"

[Scott T. Shier]

Here's several presentations of the news (the first item is the most analytical). I'm going to keep my comments to myself other than providing the links ---> 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-virtual-end-of-...

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3075026923735-i-am-genuinely-devasta...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/28/national-geographic...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/28/media/national-geographic-magazine-s...

[george warren]

This is desperately sad news.

[Scott T. Shier]

Well, keep in mind, NGM is still to be printed + mailed to subscribers and contributing members. It's being taken off newsstands -- a place it never used to be from 1888-1996-ish. The publication is not currently cancelled.

[Russell. Belding]

All true, but laying off almost all of your writers is not a good sign.

[Scott T. Shier]

Nope, I know it's awful -- a long time coming and I've been dreading & expecting it. I only clarified because I see a lot of people elsewhere online who are reacting that they think the entire magazine is folded and has just ceased to exist.

: - ( 

[George Thomas Wilson]

Sad news indeed.  Nothing lasts forever, but I was hoping that the Nat Geo would outlive me.  Now, maybe not.

[Scott T. Shier]

. . . well, my subscription expiration date shows November 2059 -- I want what's been promised!

[Melvin L. De Vilbiss]

You are correct Scott, an expected event.

And to recall - publications had reached 10 million at one time, now down to 1.7 million.

The beginning of the end.

So, I'll say it: it's like everything Disney has touched has been fouled...

[Scott T. Shier]

*grumble*  

(don't get me started on Disney . . . I wasn't happy w/ the 20th Century Fox relationship NGS had either!)