I wonder if conservatives still read “National Geographic Magazine”? And if they do, what the majority think of the article in the August issue about Pope Francis?.http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/vatican/draper-text.How the editorial tone of NGM has changed in the last few decades! Articles about specific political turmoils and controversies, Climate Change, exploitation and depletion of natural resources on land and sea, etc. seem likely to get the collective blood of conservatives boiling..And there is also in the same issue an article about the “secret” bombing of Laos during the Vietnam era, very critical of the policy. .Everything is politicized these days. Sarcasm and anger are much vocalized, polite euphemisms aren’t as much used, instead right away the cuss words shoot forth..In NGM I notice in recent years that Comments from Readers were increasingly strident in their objection to the so-called political tone of the articles, and that the magazine has shrunk the Letters feature down to nearly nothing. Perhaps it’s a response to those negative letters. .Several big-city newspapers have also discontinued their on-line comments sections because of the escalating crudeness from some readers..Is this a healthy airing of opinions, or is it more noxious gases contributing to a sort of Political Climate Change that is dangerous to our national health?
I wonder if conservatives still read “National Geographic Magazine”? And if they do, what the majority think of the article in the August issue about Pope Francis?.http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/vatican/draper-text.How the editorial tone of NGM has changed in the last few decades! Articles about specific political turmoils and controversies, Climate Change, exploitation and depletion of natural resources on land and sea, etc. seem likely to get the collective blood of conservatives boiling..And there is also in the same issue an article about the “secret” bombing of Laos during the Vietnam era, very critical of the policy. .Everything is politicized these days. Sarcasm and anger are much vocalized, polite euphemisms aren’t as much used, instead right away the cuss words shoot forth..In NGM I notice in recent years that Comments from Readers were increasingly strident in their objection to the so-called political tone of the articles, and that the magazine has shrunk the Letters feature down to nearly nothing. Perhaps it’s a response to those negative letters. .Several big-city newspapers have also discontinued their on-line comments sections because of the escalating crudeness from some readers..Is this a healthy airing of opinions, or is it more noxious gases contributing to a sort of Political Climate Change that is dangerous to our national health?