The Virtual End of National Geographic Magazine

On the menu today: This is going to sound like an extended version of an appeal to support our webathon, but the news that the illustrious magazine National Geographic has laid off all of its last remaining staff writers is a demonstration that we, as a society, have largely chosen to stop paying for news or entertainment, with far-reaching consequences for our lives. The belief that we're entitled to high-quality information in almost every form — and will accept lower-quality stuff if it is free — is one big reason that the current state of American discourse looks and sounds like a WWE match among insane-asylum inmates held in a sewer.

What Happens When We Stop Paying for Quality

You could argue that there are three American magazines that are so iconic, so central to the last century of American media and public discourse, that they are instantly recognizable just by the color of the border on their covers. Time magazine has the red border, National Geographic has the yellow border, and you're ... READ MORE

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