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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#104551: Nov 4th 2015 at 6:50:01 PM

Well I'll mostly restrict it to linking a source article, adding that a lot of the layoffs were key positions and that while I realize that journalism isn't horribly profitable, especially at the level of quality that Nat Geo is known for, I kinda hope some other billionaire can scoop up either the stock or some of the ex-staff in a new organization as a matter of philanthropy. If Nat Geo goes under or goes partisan, the world will be poorer for it.

SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#104552: Nov 4th 2015 at 7:11:34 PM

"Humorous" look at the Presidential candidates from the local weekly paper: http://tinyurl.com/oz89xyt

Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#104553: Nov 4th 2015 at 7:37:07 PM

Yea I'm really bummed about this. Not 100% sure I'll cancel yet but certainly not something I ever wanted to see happen. But to paraphrase one of those laid off "people aren't buying magazines anymore".

edited 4th Nov '15 7:37:13 PM by Joesolo

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ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#104554: Nov 4th 2015 at 7:43:19 PM

[up][up] I'd say that that wasn't bad, but that's just because I could easily imagine myself writing something like that and if that's bad I'll just be sad.

Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#104556: Nov 4th 2015 at 8:07:23 PM

Rupert Murdoch has a lot of money.

Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#104557: Nov 4th 2015 at 8:11:10 PM

Yeah, but how do these takeovers work? Was the magazine for sale? how much of the stock did it itself own and how much was on the market?

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#104558: Nov 4th 2015 at 8:13:09 PM

I haven't paid much attention to this story but he probably bought a controlling stake in the company.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#104559: Nov 4th 2015 at 9:04:51 PM

[up]That's about what happened. And having funds to operate was an issue Teeechnicaly this only affects the media arm of Nat Geo (which also includes a couple cable networks) and not the nonprofit National Geographic Society. But the whole thing still stinks of, well, Murdoch.

What I do know is that WSJ has taken to running more anti-science and/or anti global-warming pieces after their buyout. Having the credibility of the brand (both of them) is in and of itself a big shame.

edited 4th Nov '15 9:08:18 PM by Elle

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#104560: Nov 5th 2015 at 4:37:22 AM

In fact, when it comes to Rupert Murdoch and journalism, there's a thread that might be worth renaming and necroing: Murdoch's newspaper under investigation in Britain

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#104561: Nov 5th 2015 at 5:00:07 AM

Bush 41 disses Cheny and Rumsfeld in new biography. I think he doesn't go far enough, he still calls Cheney a good man, but then again he actually new the guy so who the hell knows maybe Dick Cheney is secretly some kind of Sainttongue.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#104562: Nov 5th 2015 at 7:06:23 AM

Or he is afraid of getting shotgun to the face

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#104563: Nov 5th 2015 at 7:24:48 AM

When will that monster fucking die already?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#104564: Nov 5th 2015 at 7:32:25 AM

[up] Cheny or 41?

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#104565: Nov 5th 2015 at 7:37:58 AM

Murdoc.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#104566: Nov 5th 2015 at 7:47:47 AM

[up] Never. The man will live forevertongue

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#104568: Nov 5th 2015 at 7:55:30 AM

[up]x7 BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM

...Sorry, I thought you were a deer.

edited 5th Nov '15 7:55:48 AM by speedyboris

Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#104569: Nov 5th 2015 at 9:13:41 AM

Well, as Paul Watson said the other day, Murdoc's already 84, he can't have much more than a decade or two left in him.

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Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#104570: Nov 5th 2015 at 9:16:19 AM

Even when he dies, he still has 4 children old enough to inherit his estate

edited 5th Nov '15 9:16:32 AM by Xopher001

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#104571: Nov 5th 2015 at 9:34:29 AM

[up] And they have children as well.

edited 5th Nov '15 9:34:44 AM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#104572: Nov 5th 2015 at 9:46:21 AM

But some of the children aren't as bad. Ailes and Fox News are supposed to be in trouble vis-a-vis News Corp.

Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#104573: Nov 5th 2015 at 10:32:03 AM

With any luck they'll be the type just to live off the fortune.

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PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#104574: Nov 5th 2015 at 10:43:27 AM

Well, as Paul Watson said the other day, Murdoc's already 84, he can't have much more than a decade or two left in him.
Considering medical science and all his money, the man could easily live to be 114. >_>

Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#104575: Nov 5th 2015 at 10:48:42 AM

We've only got about 1,500 documented cases of people making it past 110. People CAN make it that old, but it's not common.

If anyone can it's an angry old rich fuck, but still.

edited 5th Nov '15 10:49:09 AM by Joesolo

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