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by andrewstuart 1084 days ago
National Geographic was a window into nature, knowledge and new worlds back in the days before the web.

The web is brimming with more new stuff than you can eat, which spells doom for NG.

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> The web is brimming with more new stuff than you can eat, which spells doom for NG.

Not sure if you mean "new stuff" in general, or content/stuff of the same quality. For things like news I feel like you can either pay for really high quality content, get the shitty ad supported content or just drink from the firehose of social media.

It's hard not to assume that other types of content isn't the same. You can either get rehashed content based on Wikipedia articles or shitty click-bait articles, but actual investigating work is really rare and expensive. So you either have to buy "the book" on a topic, get research articles or rely on the few YouTubers who spend money on going places.

We have more content than ever before, sadly much of it is opinion pieces, blatant attempts to trick the all might algorithm to release advisering dollars or respins of the very real work of a few people.