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A Reporter’s Trek Through Cambodian Minefields, Pursued By Soldiers

January 22, 2014 by wpfixit

A Trek Through Minefields, Pursued By Soldiers From my files: News articles I am digitally archiving here on this blog site. This story was written in 1990 after a many weeks walk deep through the jungle with Cambodian guerrillas. It was the first independent confirmation of guerrilla claims of advances made during the then 11-year […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Cambodian War, Freelance Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Sympathy for the Devil by Nate Thayer, War correspondent Tagged With: Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, War Correspondent

The Private Letters of a Foreign Correspondent: Communicating With the Khmer Rouge; CIA Spy Accusations; Nomination for a Pulitzer Prize

January 21, 2014 by wpfixit

Select Private Correspondence from the Files of a Foreign Correspondent:  By Nate Thayer I have been doing some tinkering and final revisions and editing of my upcoming book Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge  and have been distracted as I sort out old papers, correspondence, raw notes, and files, many which have […]

Filed Under: Cambodia, Cambodia coup, Freelance Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, Sympathy for the Devil, War correspondent Tagged With: Cambodia, Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Pol Pot, Sympathy for the Devil

One Can Never be too Vigilant in the Defence of a Free Press

January 14, 2014 by wpfixit

The Tools of the Trade–Journalism Cambodia Style–1990’s Covering the Cambodia debacle in the 1980’s and 1990’s was an assignment fraught with danger and intrigue. The Khmer Rouge had executed more than 4 dozen foreigners–the vast majority journalists. Their primary opposition, the Vietnamese backed and installed government of Hun Sen, has summarily targeted and murdered dozens […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Gonzo Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Phnom Penh Post, war, War correspondent Tagged With: Cambodia, Gonzo Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Phnom Penh Post, Pol Pot

Cambodian Army’s dossier of shame

January 7, 2014 by wpfixit

Army’s dossier of shame The state sponsored violence in Cambodia in recent days has a long and predictable history that made the current events inevitable. “Villagers feel totally helpless as they see no recourse against official arbitrary violence and abuses. Deprived of any means to seek justice, even when their children are taken away and […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Cambodia human rights, Corruption, Human Rights Tagged With: Cambodia, Human Rights, Hun Sen, Nate Thayer

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

December 12, 2013 by wpfixit

Mr. Koppel, you owe an apology to the institution of journalism for soiling its integrity. By Nate Thayer December 12, 2013 Well, Mr. Ted Koppel, I, for one, would like to hear your response to my contention you pimped your reputation for integrity to ABC News/Disney Corporation in order to steal the life work of […]

Filed Under: #Paythewriter, ABC News, Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist, Journalistic Ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Pay the Writer, Ted Koppel, War correspondent, Writers Tagged With: ABC News, Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Journalism ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Pol Pot

Corporate Power, ABC TV and Ted Koppel tried to censor the free speech of a free man in a free country. Fuck that.

December 10, 2013 by wpfixit

Corporate power tried to steal my life work. ABC  TV and Ted Koppel tried to censor the free speech of a free man in a free country. Fuck that. Discuss freedom. I would like to define this discussion, where it belongs: The power of corporate thugs using their money to put their jackboot on the […]

Filed Under: #paythemusican, #Paythewriter, ABC News, Atlantic Magazine, Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Corruption, Free Speach, Freedom of speech, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist, Internet media ethics, Journalistic Ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Pay the Writer, Ted Koppel, Writers Tagged With: ABC News, Cambodia, free speech, Freelance Journalism, Internet Journalism, Journalism ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Ted Koppel

How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work

December 8, 2013 by wpfixit

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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 […]

Filed Under: ABC News, Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist, Freelance Photography, Freelancers Rights, Journalistic Ethics, Media Ethics, Most Popular, Nate Thayer, Pay the Writer, Plagiarism, Sympathy for the Devil by Nate Thayer, Ted Koppel, War correspondent Tagged With: ABC News, Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Journalism ethics, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Sympathy for the Devil, Ted Koppel

“Who is that singer? Johnny Jackson? Like he says, ‘We are the World!’ We are with the West! Let’s join together!” said a Khmer Rouge cadre

December 5, 2013 by wpfixit

  “Who is that singer? Johnny Jackson? Like he says, ‘We are the World!’ We are with you, the West! Let’s join together!” said the Khmer Rouge leader After threatening to assassinate American civilians, the Khmer Rouge leader told me “Why don’t we join hands in national reconciliation. Join together! We are with you, the […]

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

‘See Angkor and die’

December 4, 2013 by wpfixit

‘See Angkor and die’ Fri, 3 December 1993 Nate Thayer (This story, one of my favorites, was published 20 years ago today in the Phnom Penh Post) Renée Grass died happy here in Cambodia a few days ago after travelling across the world to have her last dream come true. The 83-year-old Belgian woman, frail […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Faith, Nate Thayer, Phnom Penh Post, Writers Tagged With: Cambodia, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Phnom Penh Post

Golf, Cambodia, and the ‘very cornerstone of morality’

November 19, 2013 by wpfixit

Golf, Cambodia, and the ‘very cornerstone of morality’ From my mailbox: Dear Nate, I have read your missives on Cambodia on Face Book and elsewhere with great interest. You are truly prolific and I walk in your shadow. I hardly ever reply to Face Book. I hardly get the time. Due to our mutual deep […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Corruption, Humor Tagged With: Cambodia, Corruption, Golf, Humor, Hun Sen, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog

The Night I Lived: Excerpts from Sympathy for the Devil

November 13, 2013 by wpfixit

Landmines, War, and Journalism: One war reporter’s close encounter with religion, death, and victory (Copyright Nate Thayer. No reproduction or dissemination in whole or in part without express written permission of the author)  Your Support is Needed  The new realities of journalism are that investigative journalism must seek independent financing after institutional support from media companies has largely […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist, Freelance Photography, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Sympathy for the Devil, War correspondent Tagged With: Cambodia, Freelance Journalism, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Sympathy for the Devil

Vietnam Era Renegade Army Discovered: Lighting the darkness: FULRO’s jungle Christians

October 28, 2013 by wpfixit

Lighting the darkness: FULRO’s jungle Christians      Vietnam Era Renegade Army Discovered By Nate Thayer (This story appeared in the Phnom Penh Post and  as the cover story in the Far Eastern Economic Review.  I discovered, in the remote Northeastern Cambodian jungles along the Ho Chi Minh trail along the Vietnamese border, an army literally lost […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Free People, Free Speach, FULRO, Montagnards Vietnam, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, U.S. Asian Policy Tagged With: Cambodia, FULRO, Journalism, Montagnards, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, U.S. Asian Policy, Vietnam War

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