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Freelancers’ Vital Role in International Reporting: Thoughts on the Post 9/11 World

June 19, 2017 by wpfixit

With the rise of media conglomerates, foreign news has been shoved aside.   By Nate Thayer (Published in Nieman Reports in December 2001, shortly after the terrorist attack in New York City and the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, now the longest war in American history) At an annual gathering of the International […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ahmed Rashid, Freelance Journalism, Nate Thayer

Why Journalists Dating Spies can be Challenging…

June 10, 2017 by wpfixit

From the ex-Girlfriend Diaries…. By Nate Thayer June 9, 2017 This renewed brouhaha over government spies leaking classified U.S. documents to reporters reminded me (a journalist) of my ill-fated romance with a spy for the National Security Agency or NSA, otherwise known as No Such Agency, because it’s very existence is a secret even though […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Journalists, leaking, Nate Thayer, National Security Agency, Spies

How to chat up two gals who don’t want to fuck you, and enjoy it a lot

June 6, 2017 by wpfixit

Or how to play matchmaker for people’s brains when they may or may not be interested in your private parts   By Nate Thayer   June 6, 2017 Today I saw a Facebook post that made my heart go pitter-patter from someone I don’t know but wanted to. “When I was a Senior in High […]

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How the FBI can Ruin the Lives of Law Abiding Americans

June 5, 2017 by wpfixit

     By Nate Thayer June 6, 2017 For the last 26 months, I have been largely focused on investigating the broad and effectively unchecked secret police powers the U.S. government has been legally accorded in the years since the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City. Having veered off from a focus on foreign […]

Filed Under: FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, U.S. Extremists, U.S. terrorism Tagged With: FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Fbi JTTF, Joseph Veryl Moore, Nate Thayer, War on Terrorism

Notes on Love and Courage: Thoughts on a very good man

May 18, 2017 by wpfixit

Remembering Ivor Leclerc By Nate Thayer May 18, 2017 While perusing through my files and papers I came across a handwritten copy of an eulogy I delivered at the memorial service in May 1999 for my step father, Ivor Leclerc, held at the National Cathedral Church in Washington D.C. I found stapled to my handwritten three […]

Filed Under: Ivor Leclerc, Love, Nate Thayer, Racism, Writers Tagged With: Ivor Leclerc, Nate Thayer, Notes on Love and Courage

Musings on the Excellent Name Astrid, Matt Dillon, Hollywood, & Serial Killers

April 27, 2017 by wpfixit

A conversation with a Hollywood heart throb’s assistant Random musings on Swedish names, Pol Pot, Hollywood, and serial killers By Nate Thayer April 26, 2017 This week I was invited to attend a gala event by a Hollywood movie star. It was important and fun, to boot. But the communications swirling around before, during, and […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andy Pendleton, Cambodia, City of ghosts, Hollywood, Matt Dillon, Nate Thayer, Refugees International, Serial Killers

Combat war reporter Bill O’Reilly, Fox News, & Lies: How they abuse women & journalism

April 20, 2017 by wpfixit

More from the Bill O’Reilly diaries of doing things he never did, seeing things he never did, in places he never was, and claiming he is something he isn’t, when he is not claiming he never did the things he did do, continued… By Nate Thayer April 21, 2017   This Bill O’Reilly soap opera, like […]

Filed Under: Big Media, Bill O'Reilly, Journalism, Journalistic Ethics, Media, Media Ethics, Propoganda Tagged With: Bill O'Rielly, Fox News, Kennedy assassination, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer

Freelance Journalism: Robot sex poll reveals I Got Invited–then disinvited–as guest on Huffington Post TV

April 11, 2017 by wpfixit

Robot Sex Poll Reveals Huffington Post Uses Slave Plantation Economic Business Model to Convince Writers to Work for No Pay: “You Should be Grateful We Let You be Our ‘House Negro’ or You’d be Picking Cotton in the Fields With the Rest of the Slaves” (This story was published four years ago today on an […]

Filed Under: #Paythewriter, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist Tagged With: adrianna huffington, Freelance Journalism, Huffington Post, Nate Thayer, The Atlantic

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

April 3, 2017 by wpfixit

The Ghosts of Quality Journalism Past: The Far Eastern Economic Review Remembered By Nate Thayer April 3, 2017 (This is a revised version of an article first published in 2014) I have always loathed the fact that print journalists almost never control what ends up as the headline blaring over the articles we pen. Invariably, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Far Eastern Economic Review, Nate Thayer

Conversations with an American Nazi

March 15, 2017 by wpfixit

My pal, Lamont, makes common ground with the deplorables Part of a continuing series of chitchats from the forbidden corners of U.S. political beliefs and polite society The series includes “Conversations with the still-married-but-not-to-me-girlfriend”, “Conversations with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan”, and “Conversations with my pal, my dog Lamont.” Here is the first of “Conversation with […]

Filed Under: Dogs, Lamont, Loyal White Knights of the KKK, My Dog Lamont, White Nationalist Tagged With: Lamont, Loyal White Knights, Nate Thayer, White Nationalist

The Untouchable: KKK Wizard threatens witnesses to murder attempt

March 10, 2017 by wpfixit

The Untouchable Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan White supremacist wages campaign of threats and intimidation against witnesses in upcoming attempted murder trial By Nate Thayer March 9, 2017   Before Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Christopher Barker was arrested for attempted murder, a federal court warned if he violated his probation one more […]

Filed Under: Chris Barker, Chris Barker KKK, Dylan Roof, KKK, Loyal White Knights of the KKK, U.S. domestic terrorism, U.S. Extremists, U.S. terrorism, White Supremacism Tagged With: Billy Hagen, California Loyal White Knights Ku Klux Klan, Christopher Barker, Kuk Klux Klan, Loyal White Knights, Nate Thayer, Richard Dillon, William Earnest Hagen

Internal Ku Klux Klan mutiny may spell collapse of extremist white power group

February 27, 2017 by wpfixit

Entire leadership of Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan resign after top leader charged with attempted murder of fellow Klansmen A rare equivalent of a White Nationalist Fatwa was issued by a secretive body of elders from 16 different Klan groups excommunicating LWK Imperial Wizard Christopher Barker  By Nate Thayer February 27, 2017 The […]

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

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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

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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