RIP National Geographic

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

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

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    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.
     
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