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“No More Creampuff Journalism”–Readers Object with Fervor and Wit

July 11, 2014 by wpfixit

No More Creampuff Journalism Ouch! Below are a series of reader reactions to an interview I conducted with then Khmer Rouge President Khieu Samphan in 1993. It wasn’t pretty, but it was (mostly) quite witty. Included is the article that sparked the outrage, the response of Phnom Penh Post editor-in-chief and publisher, the inimitable and […]

Filed Under: Cambodia, Free Speech, Khmer Rouge, Michael Hayes, Nate Thayer, Phnom Penh Post Tagged With: Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Michael Hayes, Nate Thayer, Phnom Penh Post

No More Creampuff Journalism: Readers React in Letters to the Editor

February 1, 2014 by wpfixit

No More Creampuff Journalism Sometime public commentary on the published writings of a journalist can get nasty, sometimes snarky, and sometimes downright witty. Here, readers react with a series of letters to the editor to an interview I did with Khmer Rouge Prime Minister Khieu Samphan published in the Phnom Penh Post. It wasn’t pretty, but it […]

Filed Under: Cambodia, Criticism of, Humor, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Phnom Penh Post Tagged With: Humor, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Phnom Penh Post

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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‘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 […]

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