UPDATE: Kickstarter campaign for publication of “Sympathy for the Devil”.
Please excuse, in advance, the insufferable self-promotion seeking funding. Believe me, it mortifies me more than it will annoy you.
Two weeks ago, I posted this video clip as a preview to the impending launch of my Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of my book “Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalists Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.”
http://https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=649003698476193&l=3047620387800001174
That campaign will be officially launched soon. It was delayed after I sought and was denied permission to use the soundtrack of the Rolling Stones song of the same title–Sympathy for the Devil–as a soundtrack for the campaign.
All fair enough, save it requires the remixing and editing of the video. That, and a few other minor, routine bureaucratic glitches, has meant the launching of the project may take as much as two more weeks to commence, but will be launched this January.
In the meantime, I am proceeding ahead with the production process. All support, no matter how small or large, is welcomed with gratitude.
For those inclined or willing to support the project prior to the official launch, it is both needed and appreciated. Please go to my blog site, natethayer.wordpress.com. In the upper right hand corner is a Paypal button that will easily walk you through the simple steps to donate.
The new-fangled world of journalism requires a significant effort at self funding, as virtually all institutional budgets supporting in-depth investigative journalism has been eliminated in recent years. This genre of journalism is as time consuming and expensive as it is vital. It is an unpleasant process for most of us, but less unpleasant than ceasing pursuing this essential genre of quality, in depth journalism.
Along with the approximately 400 page hardcover book and an E book, this project will make available for the historical record hundreds of hours of related, un-redacted archive videos, interviews, and transcripts I have compiled over decades of chronicling Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge and contemporary Cambodian Politics. It will include hours of raw video and audio interviews of Pol Pot and the entire senior Khmer Rouge leadership who remained alive after they did what they did.
The project needs to secure the expertise of professionals, who, rightfully, need to be paid. They include manuscript editors, graphic artists, and various people with related technical skills for ensuring excellence in quality and presentation of the final product.
In order to succeed, the Kickstarter campaign requires that the full funding target goal must be raised within a set period of days (my campaign will probably be 30 days) or the project will not be supported at all.
The costs for a high quality production of this project are substantial. The details of what it will cost, and the specific funding targeting each aspect of the larger project, to bring these projects to fruition will be laid out in the Kickstarter campaign.
Any thoughts, criticisms, or comments are welcome here, or by email at thayernate0007@gmail.com, or through my blog site at natethayer.wordpress.com.
Again, for those inclined to support the project before the official launch, and my ability to devote the time and resources to ensure it reaches fruition , please go to my blog site natethayer.wordpress.com, where there is a Paypal buttons to push to donate. Grateful thanks in advance and stay tuned…
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