[emulatedmedia]

As someone from the Southern Hemisphere, the article's point falls flat. There's more land area in the top so it makes it easier to look at it

[boringg]

You lose a lot of the details of the northern hemisphere when its compressed downwards in that map.

[hughes]

That seems to be due to the pseudocylindrical projection, not the rotation of the map.

[sltkr]

Not just land area; ~90% of the world population lives on the northern hemisphere, so it's more important in that sense, political and historical considerations aside.