The news that National Geographic has now been placed in the hands of Rupert Murdoch prompted a predictable outcry, roughly akin to what happens in the movies when the clearly evil tycoon takes the orphans away. A bastion of popular science is now controlled by a very prominent climate change denier who, despite his company’s assurances of editorial integrity, has spent decades interfering with the independence of his properties. A tabloid king could now apply the values of the New York Post to one of the world’s oldest magazines.
The media was up in arms yesterday at news of Murdoch’s high-profile acquisition. Here’s what you should know.
^ICYMI…
For anyone who doesn’t know, Rupert Murdoch is the man who owns and runs Fox News.
Holy shit
This is the kind of thing that not enough people will know or care about and by next year it’ll just be happening and people will slowly become less and less educated about climate change and you won’t know why