It's a bit sad what's become of National Geographic under Disney.
Once it was actually a part of the prestigious National Geographic Society, a non-profit. Now what's left of nationalgeographic.com is mostly a giant advertisement for Disney+. They even have Buzz Lightyear and Star Wars characters on there...
Between the things happening at Disney, and the discovery/hbo/cnn talent/production cull, I think we’re witnessing the biggest purge of the arts and journalism in the US in at least a generation.
It's kind of similar to tech. All these brilliant "executives" turned out to be complete imbeciles - unless they operate in an environment where money grows on trees and the economy is on fire (not that it's bad in the first place).
The [US] economy is actually fine, and all they know how to do is gut their own companies to "save" money.
Thats the Jack Welsch MBA school of business - gut the company, earn wealth and piss off. The fact that it destroys the society and makes the whole nation uncompetitive on the world market doesn't matter.
There is nothing wrong with Capitalism given the right incentives, proper controls, and some social responsibility. It used to work, until the rich gutted oversight and regulations.
To be fair, these scroundrels are needed. How else the world hegemony can be taken over by the Chinese, Indian and Russian? If VOC was well managed, you and I probably speaking Dutch right now. I am off to Russian class now. Bye.
If your task is to complete an exhaustive statistical survey on the issue, perhaps you're right, the comment is too vague.
If your intent is (as the parent's was) to contribute to a conversation by giving an opinion on what you observe happening to US journalism industry, with some example cases to illustrate the point, it's fine.
> Once it was actually a part of the prestigious National Geographic Society, a non-profit.
A non-profit that shares ownership with Disney over a crappy for-profit media network sounds more like a once-prestigious non-profit that turned sell out. Hopefully there's something good left in them, but as much as we can blame Disney for what it has become it was the National Geographic Society that let the mouse in to trash the place and their reputation.
Maybe you got a different A/B version of the page, but I went there and there weren't any of those. There's a Disney+ call to action but it shows naturalistic content. I cycled through the promoted shows gallery and it didn't bring up any Star wars or Toy story items.
I'm viewing it from Ireland, and half way down the page, I see a full-screen banner for Disney+ with a notable personality from each of their franchises Moana (Disney), Mr Incredible (Pixar), Thor (Marvel), Jyn Erso (Rogue One/Star Wars) and Jeff Goldblum (National Geographic). I suppose that's what you're seeing?
Once it was actually a part of the prestigious National Geographic Society, a non-profit. Now what's left of nationalgeographic.com is mostly a giant advertisement for Disney+. They even have Buzz Lightyear and Star Wars characters on there...