On Sep 26, 2006, at 1:53 AM, Douglas Newman wrote: > Well, it was founded by rich businessmen, so in the > past it wouldn't have been surprising. (Or do you mean > something else?) > > I'm more surprised that it's apparently still the case > today. A lot of conservative Republicans wouldn't like > some of the stuff published in National Geographic's > publications...
I was surprised. Most of the writers and photographers I know who work for them are pretty liberal, but then most of the writers and photographers I know who don't work for them are also pretty liberal. Maybe they can't find conservative Republican writers and photographers. It was really funny when I first started doing work for them. The editor who had invited me in for the interview asked me to bring along some slide pages of my nudes. As he looked at them on the lightbox he kept looking over his shoulder to make sure none of the bosses were coming down the hall. He said of course he could **never** use any of them in their publications, but he loved to look at them. Great guy to work with, but unfortunately no longer there. He got axed during one of their major financial crises several years ago. They used to have both their DC HQ building and a really nice big building out in Maryland, but when the cash crunch hit they had to sell off their Maryland building to an insurance company. They were in pretty bad shape for a while with major staff layoffs, but they seem to have recovered. They're notoriously tight with the penny, though, and I worked on their books because I liked working for them. The same work for any other publisher would have paid several times as much. I edited and partially wrote their photography field guides. Every other publisher I've worked for has sent me twenty or more copies of each book when it came out. They sent me one! Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
