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Nate Thayer
Personal blog · natethayer.wordpress.compoliticswriting
Nate Thayer writes natethayer, a personal blog at natethayer.wordpress.com about politics and writing. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nate Thayer's blog for his account of a dispute with ABC TV and Ted Koppel over his work, and for his posts on the day-to-day life of a freelance journalist.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A compilation of current reporting and archived published work of journalist Nate Thayer
What Hacker News says?
Looks like he's got 2 new additions at the top of his blog. http://natethayer.wordpress.com/ I know nothing about the specifics of this case, but I have seen many cases of corporations saying, "We're big, they're small. If they sue us, they'll run out of money first."
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on “How Ted Koppel and ABC TV tried to steal my life work”Submitted A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist as a story · 194 points
HN discussionSometimes they aren't[1]. Some are paid through agents. Those syndicates are missing their opportunity to organize and solve the journalists' coordination problems. Someone will. [1] - https://natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-day-in-the-lif...
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on “Craigslist has cost U.S. newspapers $5 billion since 2000, researchers say”Submitted How Ted Koppel and ABC TV tried to steal my life work as a story · 71 points
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