On 06 Dec 2003 22:43:14 GMT, (MLenoch) wrote:

Obvious Agenda Since About 1995

They do seem to have topics that have an agenda. I agree. For the sake of the
discussion, what's your take on it? To sell more magazines? To be more
contemporary? Etc.??

It's not that I think geographers should avoid a subject just because
there is some contemporary impact, but it began to feel like NGS was
dispatching photographers and documentatrians into areas that have
made the news, intentionally.

In that way they turned themselves into another news organization,
rather than a society of travelling scientists. Even the maps became
"timely". And when that happened, I lost interest. And yes, it really
did appear to me that they had particular sets of opinions about what
the United States government ought to do about whatever it was they
were covering.

So I lost interest. Doesn't stop them from continuing to mail me
stuff, offers and such, but I don't get the magazine anymore.

Rob