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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

Notes on Love and Courage: The Eulogy of a Very Important Man

January 22, 2014 by wpfixit

Notes on Love and Courage: The Eulogy of a Very Important Man By Nate Thayer January 22, 2014 In recent days, I have been perusing through files and papers while organizing the final details of preparing my book, Sympathy for the Devil, for publication. Today I came across a handwritten eulogy I wrote which I […]

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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 […]

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My Dog, my Pal Lamont Defuses Simmering D.C. Racial Tensions

January 13, 2014 by wpfixit

Lamont Defuses Simmering D.C. Racial Tensions Lamont Diaries continued: By Nate Thayer My pal, Lamont, has made it clear he wants to be active on the high powered Washington social circuit, to hang out with the Big Dogs. And he insists that cannot be accomplished in front of the computer, on the couch, from my […]

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Lamont and I have a Serious Chat

January 12, 2014 by wpfixit

Lamont Diaries continued: By Nate Thayer Lamont and I have a Serious Chat   Today, Lamont and I had a serious talk about how the earth spins, and that his conduct of late is throwing it off its natural trajectory.   Today, while partaking in his daily cardio vascular regiment in the park, Lamont insisted […]

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My Pal, Lamont, and a Day in his Washington, D.C.

January 12, 2014 by wpfixit

Lamont and a Day in his Washington, D.C. The Lamont Diaries continued By Nate Thayer   Lamont and a day in his Washington, D.C.   The Great Guru Lamont took me on a long outing to survey is domain and his people from which we just returned. As usual, there were pleasant surprises awaiting.   […]

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My Pal, Lamont, is a Cheap Date

January 12, 2014 by wpfixit

Lamont is a Cheap Date By Nate Thayer Lamont Diaries continued Lamont is a Cheap Date My new pal, Lamont, is a cheap date.  And a bit of a shameless hussy. Sometimes it is a bit alarming, but he seems to think that is my problem. He was gracing the neighborhood with his presence today, […]

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Korean Sex, the Atlantic magazine, and Ted Koppel: What visitors wanted to read in 2013

January 2, 2014 by wpfixit

My 2013 statistics for my blog, natethayer.wordpress.com (now moved to www.nate-thayer.com), have been summarized and broken down. They provide for interesting, sometimes disturbing, sometimes humorous, sometimes enlightening,and to me, fascinating insight into how and why people decide to visit an online site, via what social media networks, from where the readers live, and what topics […]

Filed Under: Atlantic Magazine, Bloggers, Free People, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist, Internet, Internet Freedom, Internet Journalism, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Social Media, Ted Koppel, Writers Tagged With: free speech, Freelance Journalism, Internet Journalism, Journalism, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Social Media

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 […]

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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 […]

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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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