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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Lamont and I have a Serious Chat

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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 […]

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

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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.   […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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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