Like i just pay for this on my computer once and then i get mailed a little glossy full colour A4 booklet with loads of interviews and articles and opinion pieces all about my interests in it once a month for the next year? I get to leaf through it while drinking coffee in the morning and then put it down after reading a few articles and they’re all written by professional writers not just substack cranks?
I haven’t gotten magazines regularly since i was a kid and that was just like the Beano’s swansong in the few years before it finally went bankrupt and stopped distribution, so this is all a big novelty to me. Please forgive my wide-eyed zoomer naïvety about this all, but i don’t get how millenials were ever persuaded to give this up for web articles.
(I also got a free tote bag included with my subscription!!! I didn’t even know they did that, they just mailed me a bag along with my magazine one day!)
Sadly nat geo has also gone down in quality significantly since the acquisition by Murdoch years ago. It was all photojournalism before but now every cover story is about Jesus or some other history channel bullshit.