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National Geographic Society, a non-profit since 1888, has decided to sell the National Geographic magazines and National Geographic cable television networks to 20th Century Fox for $725 million, saying they can better fund their missions with the proceeds of the sale than with continued non-profit publications and television. They're framing this as a partnership, but it seems as though Fox (climate change denier billionaire Rupert Murdoch's company) will be in charge of what gets published and/or show on television. Their magazine subscriptions have fallen from a peak of about 12 million down to around 3.5 million, with another 3 million in non-English publication.

And they just lost one more.
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I just feel sad. Anyone but Fox
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I opened this thread thinking it was going to be an Onion article. I'm deeply disappointed.
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How can this be, it's not April?
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From 12 million subscribers to 3.5 million?

Well, this ought to put the kibosh on much of the remainder.
I'll not be renewing, that's for damned sure.
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