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North Korea tried to entrap me as a spy: A visitor’s guide to the Worker’s Paradise

July 30, 2017 by Nate Thayer Leave a Comment

North Korea tried to entrap me as a spy: A visitor’s guide to the Worker’s Paradise

Diaries from a misspent youth continued….. When North Korea tried to recruit me as a spy: A visitor’s guide to the Worker’s Paradise Excerpts from Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge By Nate Thayer July 30, 2017   Recently, I wrote a story on how the Communist Party […]

Filed Under: North Korea, North Korea Spy Tagged With: Journalism, Nate Thayer, North Korea, Spy

How to make the Ku Klux Klan victims

January 24, 2017 by Nate Thayer 1 Comment

How to make the Ku Klux Klan victims

News, Social Media, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Truth Or how to make victims of the Ku Klux Klan By Nate Thayer January 24, 2017 On a remote stretch of a rural Mississippi county road in recent weeks, 5 people wearing masks tried to flag down passing motorists from a remote church parking lot […]

Filed Under: Ku Klux Klan, North Mississippi White Knights Tagged With: Chuck Edwards, Journalism, Journalism ethics, Ku Klux Klan, North Mississippi White Knights of the KKK, Social Media

The Road to Pol Pot: Snippets from a Journalists Memories

June 11, 2016 by Nate Thayer 1 Comment

The Road to Pol Pot: Snippets from a Journalists Memories

Behind the Scenes Reporting on War and Bad Guys By Nate Thayer June 11, 2016 I had worked for the Associated Press (AP) since 1989 covering the war in Cambodia and the myriad of guerrilla armies and refugee camps, based on the Thai border. I made 41 trips into the guerrilla controlled zones between 1989 and […]

Filed Under: Khmer Rouge, Sympathy for the Devil Tagged With: Journalism, Nate Thayer, Pol Pot, Sympathy for the Devil book

The Ku Klux Klan Threatened to Decapitate my Dog: How Political Extremists are a Pain in the Ass

September 5, 2015 by Nate Thayer 3 Comments

The Behind the Scenes Sausage Making of Creating a News Article From Researching the Ku Klux Klan    By Nate Thayer September 5, 2015 Recently, I have written several articles exposing a Ku Klux leader as working as an undercover operative for the FBI. Chris Barker, the Imperial Wizard–or national leader–of the most high-profile KKK […]

Filed Under: Chris Barker, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Loyal White Knights of the KKK, White Supremacism, White Supremecist Tagged With: Chris Barker, Chris Barker Loyal White Knights, Journalism, Ku Klux Klan, Loyal White Knights KKK, Nate Thayer, White Supremacy

The Journalist’s Creed: A code of ethics for journalists

August 22, 2014 by Nate Thayer 1 Comment

The Journalist’s Creed: A code of ethics for journalists

The Journalist’s Creed A code of ethics for journalists  by Walter Williams,  founder and first dean of the Missouri School of Journalism—1906   *I believe in the profession of journalism. *I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the […]

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Washington Journalism & PR hacks: the Soviet apparatchik’s of our time

August 20, 2014 by Nate Thayer Leave a Comment

A Day in the Life of a Journalist in Washington, D.C.: Why I think the PR industry are the equivalent of Cold War era Soviet apparatchiks’   By Nate Thayer August 20, 2014 “Yes, I guess my real question is why, while trying to get a hold of an obscure economist who specializes on Caribbean […]

Filed Under: Gonzo Journalism, Media, Nate Thayer, Public relations, U.S. politics, Washington Politics Tagged With: Journalism, Nate Thayer, PR agents, U.S. Politics, Washington Politics

Jailing Journalists, Military Power & Corruption: The Deadly Perfect Storm

July 12, 2014 by Nate Thayer 2 Comments

Jailing Journalists, Military Power & Corruption: The Deadly Perfect Storm

Egypt and Thailand: the Lethal Nexus of Military Rule, Corruption, and Press Censorship Egyptian army claims it has discovered AIDS cure using debunked science of novelty toy marketed to find lost golf balls; thousands arrested, killed as Thai military buys same bogus technology to detect explosives, drugs By Nate Thayer July 12, 2014 Egypt’s “men of […]

Filed Under: Corruption, egypt, fake bomb detectors, Human Rights, Iraq, Landmines, Middle East, Nate Thayer, Terrorism Tagged With: al jazeera, Corruption, egypt, fake bomb detectors, Human Rights, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Terrorism, Thailand

BREAKING: Facebook names storied mutt, Lamont, Global Celebrity

June 19, 2014 by Nate Thayer Leave a Comment

BREAKING: Facebook names storied mutt, Lamont, Global Celebrity

BREAKING NEWS: Facebook officially recognizes Lamont as Famous Global Celebrity Seeking Increased Profit Margins, Top Facebook Strategy Executives Woo the Charming Mutt  By Nate Thayer June 19, 2014 Sometimes it is a bit embarrassing to be my pal, Lamont’s, human. Yesterday, I was contacted by someone from Facebook Headquarters informing me that they had made […]

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Is a freelance journalism career a Sisyphean delusion?

June 6, 2014 by Nate Thayer 10 Comments

Why today I think continuing my career as a freelance journalist may be a Sisyphean, untenable delusion   By Nate Thayer June 5, 2014 Here is an update with further evidence suggesting that making a viable living as a professional freelance journalist and writer is an untenable, Sisyphean delusion: I was sitting at my desk yesterday morning, […]

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In Pursuit of Mass Murderers: Sympathy for the Devil by Nate Thayer

April 18, 2014 by Nate Thayer 1 Comment

Reporting from Inside the Final Collapse of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. Excerpts from the unpublished book “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalists Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge” (Copyright Nate Thayer. All Rights Reserved. No publication or citation permitted without author’s express written permission.) By Nate Thayer April 18, 2014 By 1994, the Khmer Rouge leadership […]

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The Ghosts of Quality Journalism Past: The Far Eastern Economic Review Remembered

April 2, 2014 by Nate Thayer 3 Comments

The Ghosts of Quality Journalism Past: The Far Eastern Economic Review Remembered

By Nate Thayer April 2, 2014 I have always loathed the fact that print journalists almost never have control over what ends up as the headline blaring over the articles we pen. Invariably, headlines disproportionately influence, define, and trump the content of the article itself in a reader’s mind’s eye as news stories filter into […]

Filed Under: Far Eastern Economic Review, Journalism, Media, Nate Thayer Tagged With: Far Eastern Economic Review, Journalism, Journalism ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer

The Free Press is Dead–Temporarily

March 19, 2014 by Nate Thayer Leave a Comment

By Nate Thayer March 19, 2014 Don’t believe anything you read in the media anymore. I don’t And spare me the “Mainstream Media” hyperbole. It doesn’t exist. The truth is that the so-called mainstream media, or the tattered shreds of its remaining vestiges, are considerably more trustworthy than the anarchy of online sleuths who never […]

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How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work By Nate Thayer December 8, 2013 I am banned by legal agreement to write the following: ABC Television/ Disney Corporation, after seven years in court, where they attempted to bankrupt me and ruin my reputation for objecting to them stealing fifteen years of […]

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A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist—2013 Here is an exchange between the Global Editor of the Atlantic Magazine and myself this afternoon attempting to solicit my professional services for an article they sought to publish after reading my story “25 Years of Slam Dunk Diplomacy: Rodman trip comes after 25 years of […]

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ABC News and Ted Koppel owe an apology for soiling the integrity of freelancers and the institution of journalism

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Jim Jones and North Korea: Comrades in Political Mass Murder

Jim Jones and North Korea: Comrades in Political Mass Murder

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Assassination of Cambodian #Kemley Marks Hun Sen’s Mafia Rule

Assassination of Cambodian #Kemley Marks Hun Sen’s Mafia Rule

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Washington Post gets punked by Malaysian earthquake “naked blogger”

Washington Post gets punked by Malaysian earthquake “naked blogger”

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