September 2009 National Geographic Magazine

[ToontownTurtle]

These comments are 2 years ago! :o

[flyingrabbit123]

(12stringsforme) I completely agree, it seems as if in every single issue they talk about bogus global warming. In every single issue they have at least one article about a specific animal, and dedicate half of the article to telling how its going extinct because of global warming. The articles message usually ends up like this-"If you don't stop being fat and ugly, this completely random and completely useless animal will go extinct, and it's all your fault".

[12stringsforme]

I am getting tired of the global warming hype in NG magazine. I'll pick up my 30 year subscription again after they calm down and go back to objective journalism.

[adanrom]

National geo is eye candy a collector`s item i seriously think that it cant be regarded as ur run at the mile everyday magazine people grown up with it and it is bassically international in its content it would be a great loss if it would be discontinued infact i cant imagine

[Squareknot2006]

Wait... What?

[hoardan007]

fuckin brutal

[FullLionMoon]

Shattered Somalia... Hmmm... I'm really trying to think of a place on this planet that I could care less about, but I just can't...

[geonerd]

Useless advertisement.

[shunnehling]

You know, you send me all these videos that I cant watch.. It doesnt really help. If this continues im unsubscribing.

[Meglo56]

Nat Geo u guys havent sent me the august volume and september :P how do i send a complaint??

[TogrutaJedi]

I read this magazine cover-to-cover yesterday.

[Fahnestock1]

I swear they are sending subliminal messages via these fast moving videos of photos

[DoJaenin]

Sorry NG, I'm getting tired of being able to see only every 10th or so video. Unsubscribed.

[CHAS1422]

National Geographic is nothing less than a huge public service in the education of the public. Thanks, it isn't always appreciated as it should be, but we have become spoiled by so much now that is free. I will forever be subscribed to National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Discovery.

[myalteredself]

love nat geo mag!

[ueks69]

i agree, and great TV also.

[792247]

I agree... unsubscribing until restrictions removed.

[PsychoDesigns]

huh, the first video I'm allowed to watch in while is this? I'm sorry NG, but you lost my subscription...

[fenda12]

unsuscribing

[torcidas]

Unsubscribing. Fuck you for selling out, NG.

[TherianthropeAndrewH]

Same here, however I dont think its National Geographics fault, Ive recently uploaded a video that for some reasons has the same location restrictions.

It could be National Geographics own copyrighted files working against them them on youtube if you get what I mean.

[brut88plus]

i am unsubscribing as well...cant watch a single interesting video...copyrights ...ha

[DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

same

[The1stPoster]

I'm also unsubscribing, not that I expect them to care, it's just that all of their content has become blocked where I live. You can use a proxy to get around this ofcourse, but it still sucks. And what's worse is that their videos have all become 3 minute advertisements.

What happened NG? I have like 20 years worth of your magazines too, but this is just getting lame.

Adios.

[skateboarding118]

same, it's lame as hell.

[papermonster3]

The cover looks pretty cool!

[950horsepower]

What the hell was that about?

Guess Nat Geo has become senile in it's old age.

I've done better than this, and my videos stink.

[rawr0418]

lol this video is pointless

[sleepingmotor]

Whoa. But that cover of the' Before NY' story isn't new, I read it several months ago.

[mkgene]

VERY cool.. can't wait.

[mrwash]

I got to find a track like that.

[gangsterdrester]

Sweet i don't have to buy this issue as I read it all just now!

[coinstalker]

cool

[kotk05]

slow down, and try to make the font bigger

[OmarOcean]

This is so amazing, can't wait!

[devildyl1]

oh wow! i can actually FUCKING view this stupid video

[PadaINbelgium]

Yea I get bugged by the copyright shit all the time.

It's like this:"Hey sweet, a new video from national geographic, gonna see it"

"You can't see that video unless you are in that country."

"Sweet, Now I only have to move to watch the friggin thing. Awesome."

It seems that you can only watch the most stupid vids. Like this one ...

[Dbizzle17]

learn to use a proxy

[gaiagale]

what is a proxy in this context?

[sw33tiexkiwi]

I AGREE. this video is so boring..I want to watch intersting ones..but they are all copyrighted!

[Zacdayak63]

yeah its gay I'm unsubscribing.. because I can't watch crap on national geographic because of copyright

[MinatoNamikazeSenpai]

I know. It's so annoying.

[librano]

agreed... being subscribed to this channel is becoming pointless...

[bonjovikid13]

kool

[Truthiness231]

Does anyone still actually buy paper-based articles? Why?

[irbenson]

Lots of people read newspapers and magazines

Who the hell wants to read 100 pages of stuff while staring at a bright screen?

[Truthiness231]

That glowing screen (that you're looking at now) gives information that is literally seconds/minutes old. Find something in any National Geographic magazine that happened today...

I also have resources which suggest that you're a dieing breed: slate(d0t)com/id/2144201/

podcastingnews(d0t)com/2009/01­/31/another-reason-magazines-a­re-dying-they-just-discovered-­podcasts/

[irbenson]

Does it really matter if your info isn't 2 minutes old? Newspapers provide info a day old, is that too ancient?

What's wrong if nat geo provides info that didn't happen today? It's just filled with interesting articles that are read for enjoyment. Are you going to become obsolete and detached from the world if the information is two weeks old? What about magazines that don't put articles online? Unless you urgently need some quick info, there's nothing wrong with paper-based articles.

[Truthiness231]

"Does it really matter if your info isn't 2 minutes old? Newspapers provide info a day old, is that too ancient?"

Well, the answer to that would be subjective, but from my POV: no, it's not ancient, it's just really old for modern news. Through the TV or internet I can the exact same data, and with the internet I have tons more access for free with much more functions than just reading the story (we can now compare data, add to it, participate in polls, ect. at the same place/time). It's dead.

[Truthiness231]

Once again, that's just my view (and a growing number of others, clear from the fact that long running papers have recently shut down due to lack of sales). Yours is clearly different, though I can't help but see the irony in the fact that, were we reading a paper or magazine right now, we couldn't have even had this conversation...

[irbenson]

So what you're saying is that newspapers and magazines are dead, right?

How do you explain why they are still mass produced(especially newspapers)?

The internet may be "better", but when you're reading lots of pages, paper is way more relaxing. Why do we pay for hardcover textbooks and novels for school? How do you read on the train, or in a car? Should we carry laptops 24/7? Like I said before, the internet is good for urgent information as it is extremely fast, but IMO not as enjoyable.

[irbenson]

So I guess my argument is...there's usually no point in finding information so quickly.

The internet can be efficient but that doesn't make paper-based articles ineffective.

[Truthiness231]

"So what you're saying is that newspapers and magazines are dead, right?"

Most, currently, dieing. A few are literally already dead. Don't get mad at me for watching the news and hearing, plan and simple, without bias (at least at the particular time), various names of long-running papers that have recently shut their doors forever. Fight reality all you want, it's still there.

[Truthiness231]

Bah, meant "plain and simple"* ^.^

Again: reality; sorry.

[irbenson]

There are many different factors for that. There are still many newspapers that are mass produced. Papers may have shut their doors down because of lack of business due to competition with better newspapers, thus explaining why there are still so many newspapers being produced everyday.

And what happened to my question about paying for hardcover textbooks and novels in school?

The reality isn't that paper-based articles are dead.

[irbenson]

The reality is that paper-based articles are not used as much as they used to be because of the internet and T.V., but that does not mean that paper-based articles are useless.

Why do we use notebooks in school? Why do we receive worksheets in paper? Why do we type up our essays, rather than send them through email? Why aren't we carrying laptops on the train to read books yet?

Maybe in the future we will stop using paper based articles, but for now, they are nowhere near dead.

[irbenson]

Just because we could probably stop the use of paper-based articles and rely on the internet for everything we read does not mean we are actually doing so. Why? Because there is no need to.

Both the internet and paper-based articles have their different purposes and are read by people with different preferences. I don't mind reading a few articles online to find out some random interesting information, but I would very much rather read a 400 page book rather than read it on the internet.

[Truthiness231]

bleh, isohunt(d0t)com

And honestly I don't care... think what you want...

[irbenson]

You obviously do cus you replied lol

I can provide plenty of recent examples where people use newspapers.

If you want reality, don't base your assumptions on what you see on TV.

[wysteriaqueenfaerie]

well said indeed.