I just canceled my national geographic subscription

[Botany]

I have really enjoyed the magazine over the years but ......
National Geographic sold to Rupert Murdoch
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141203668#post5


You may cancel by calling 1-800-NGS-LINE (1-800-647-5463) or by sending an email to [e-mail]

[TexasProgresive]

1. Is there nothing Murdock won't seek to sully with his evil fingers?

[Botany]

3. To sit and drink a beer or a cup of coffee and read Nat. Geo. was a real pleasure ....

.... and I always learned something new but now w/Murdock owning it
I want nothing more to do w/it.


I just read this article.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/hkakabo-razi-climb/jenkins-text

[Glorfindel]

2. So did I. My own, and two gift subscriptions I have given for many years

I cancelled online and left a message explaining why. I will not have anything associated with that horror Murdoch in my home. It's a shame. National Geographic has been part of my life for 60-somthing years.

[mnhtnbb]

4. I just told my husband about this and he has been a subscriber for 60 years, too,

since he was in middle school.

He told me had just renewed and wasn't going to cancel yet. I guess he thinks it will
take some time for the magazine to change.

[Botany]

5. From the Grosvenor Family to Rupert Murdoch

Something so good should never be in the hands of Murdoch.

BTW National Geographic has been part of my life for 50 + years.

I read National Geo's "Book of Dogs" many times over as a kid.

[IDemo]

6. -

[Sheldon Cooper]

7. I just renewed mine a couple of months ago.

Since it's already paid for I guess I'll just let it run out on its own. Definitely won't be renewing next year.

[Botany]

10. You can call the # I posted and they will send you a refund

BTW it is not easy to do by phone but it is possible ..... when
the nice guy @ the call center in India tells you that you can let
the subscription run out tell him no and you want a refund. And
also too (I speak Palin) tell the person why you are stopping the
magazine.

You can do it on line too.

[CBGLuthier]

8. The society still owns a percentage of the assets.

And the infusion of cash by this sale will help their work but go ahead and do whatever you want.

[ladyVet]

12. Then anyone who cancels their subscription can donate to the society.

Or, anyone can donate, whether they get the magazine or not. I always enjoyed reading the various articles, but I won't give a penny to Rupert.

[Logical]

15. Yes, more reality shows. nt

[Armstead]

23. Ya mean science fundd by a climate change denier?

Great work. The goddamn National Geographic Society sold their soul and can go to hell

[ancianita]

9. One small solace of civilization is gone for me. Only when Murdoch dies will I buy it again. nt

[NV Whino]

11. I cancelled mine years ago

When they went all rah, rah about the Iraq war.

I cancelled Smithsonian mag when they moved a photography exhibit, showing the still existing Exxon Valdez damage, from the front lobby to a far dark corner of the museum.

[Snobblevitch]

13. Actually, National Geographic

does not sell subscriptions. They sell memberships to the National Geographic Society.

[Octafish]

14. Murdoch breathed his fetid conservative breath into NatGeo tee vee re Dallas.

Helped people "understand" how Lee Harvey Oswald is guilty, no matter what anybody says or the facts show.

EXCERPT...

Thus, Killing Kennedy is just the latest example of O’Reilly’s lucrative decision to sell out, even on a topic that once appeared to draw his honest interest. Many years ago O’Reilly was the host of a syndicated program called Inside Edition that drew on his past acquaintance with Gaeton Fonzi, the late, great field investigator for both the Church Committee and the HSCA. Fonzi supplied O’Reilly with many interesting stories about the Kennedy case in the early 1990s when Oliver Stone’s film was creating a new furor about the case. The stories all pointed toward a conspiracy, and some still exist on YouTube today.

But then, O’Reilly was hired by longtime Republican operative Roger Ailes to work for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox network. According to author Russ Baker, O’Reilly wanted to continue his investigative pieces on the JFK case at Fox, but these ambitions were quashed by Ailes, who had cut his teeth in politics as a media consultant for Kennedy’s archrival, Richard Nixon.

So today, O’Reilly’s work on the Kennedy case is contrary to what he did before. He even suggests the chief motive for his sell-out on page 313. He dedicates the book to his boss, Roger Ailes, whom he obsequiously calls “a brilliant, fearless warrior.”

CONTINUED...

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/10/13/bill-oreillys-outdated-killing-kennedy/

Protecting the Reich since Nov. 22, 1963.

[Logical]

16. LOL, I sometimes think you are just fucking with us. nt

[Octafish]

17. Roger Ailes glommed on to Rupert via Nixon and Reagan.

Two traitors who served as president and now he serves as toadie to Rupert Murdoch who helped lie America into war on Iraq.

Nixon dealt with the South Vietnamese around the back of LBJ.

Reagan (Bush) dealt with the Ayatollah around the back of Jimmy Carter.

Their man, Roger Ailes, who now works for National Geographic, also is an admirer of NAZI filmmaking.

Those are the facts. Who's fucking with whom?

I wish for the sake of the United States of America that this stuff wasn't true.

[Logical]

18. Oswald did it. End of story. nt

[Octafish]

24. That's what Allen Dulles and J Edgar Hoover said.

George Herbert Walker Bush, too. The facts show they are suspects, more than authorities.

Poppy brought up the assassination of President Kennedy while delivering a eulogy for President Ford. It was a telling moment:



Poppy Bush brought up JFK Assassination and ''Conspiracy Theorists'' at Ford Funeral

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3029417

Poppy smirks or laughs or grins at the moment he says "deluded gunman" near the 1:09 mark:

George H.W. Bush’s Eulogy for Gerald R. Ford

The New York Times
Published: January 2, 2007

Following is the transcript of the eulogy for former President Gerald R. Ford delivered today by former President George H.W. Bush in Washington, as recorded by The New York Times.

EXCERPT…

After a deluded gunman assassinated President Kennedy, our nation turned to Gerald Ford and a select handful of others to make sense of that madness. And the conspiracy theorists can say what they will, but the Warren Commission report will always have the final definitive say on this tragic matter. Why? Because Jerry Ford put his name on it and Jerry Ford’s word was always good.

A decade later, when scandal forced a vice president from office, President Nixon turned to the minority leader in the House to stabilize his administration because of Jerry Ford’s sterling reputation for integrity within the Congress. To political ally and adversary alike, Jerry Ford’s word was always good.

SOURCE:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/washington/02cnd-ford-ghwb.html

PS: Of course, to Gerald Ford Warren Commission skeptics presented "no problem."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3772251

PPS: What's even more telling is how there are still people interested in scrubbing the assassination record of any reference to Poppy.

PPPS: For those interested, background...

Know your BFEE: Poppy Bush was in Dallas the day JFK was assassinated.

[hfojvt]

19. very sad news

like I said on FB, I read a whole bunch of National Geographic when I was a high schooler. My dad had a cabinet full of old issues, that I started going through. Unfortunately as an adult, I have to admit I have not supported them.

[Generic Other]

20. Me too, Botany!

It will become a mouthpiece for propaganda on environmental issues. I feel sorry for all who work there. I bet it will not be pleasant.

[csziggy]

21. I'm not canceling mine - I bought a lifetime membership and they won't make a dime!

Chances are I'll get the magazine for at least the nest twenty years, maybe thirty or longer if my parents' genes have any say about things. I've been getting it since 1978 so they're already losing money on me.

That $150 was a great investment.

[Owl]

22. My subscription ran out last month.

I would like to renew. Might wait though to see if it is any longer the same magazine.