Michael's Dispatches

Andrew MacGregor Marshall, Former Journalist.

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05 May 2014

image011Andrew Marshall.

Over the years an unwelcome retinue of stalkers appeared at my heels.  Only a few stand out.  Just why I suffer from stalkers is a mystery: I am no Brad Pitt or Justin Bieber.

My latest stalker is Mr. Andrew MacGregor Marshall.  This former Reuters bureau chief is infamous in Thailand for maligning the Thai Royal Family, his combative and insulting misconduct on social media, and his infatuation with prostitution.

Writing such a dispatch as this is a displeasurable experience.  It feels like dirty work.  Something that causes one to wash hands and the keyboard after it is finished.  The subject is what it is.

This is not to imply that any of the women depicted in the following photographs with Marshall are prostitutes.  These are merely party images.  Marshall posts photographs of real prostitutes on his Facebook page.  Examples are included later in the dispatch.

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Marshall has shared more than 5,000 personal images on Facebook. When Marshall is not partying his way through Asia, he insults total strangers.

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    Patrick Gatdula · 5 years ago
    Come on Michael... majority of your article is obviously not backed by facts. You're again assuming and picking specific instances to back you up removing the context of the photo or what was written. I think what you have done is more damaging to your credibility as an honest writer. Seriously, buddy, you need to learn real journalism so you'd stop writing sensationalist articles. Only an idiot would believe the information you wrote. It's entertaining, that's for sure. But believable... no more than tabloid writing. Best of luck to you.
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      ko · 5 years ago
      Sawadee this is thai born and have been in thailand not only reader ..working of Mr Michel yon we e ducated ppl called quaulity research..not idiot ..hope u understand ..but not sure u will? We thai ppl pround to have Yon in our land this time because his working not look only one side he look around even our thai spiritual ..he is the real one..thanks to read
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        123 · 5 years ago
        I don't even want to correct your English. Have a nice day.

        -Another "thai born"
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          Alphadork · 5 years ago
          Someone who doesn't speak English well at least makes an effort to communicate in your language and that is how you respond? That's shameful.
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            ko · 5 years ago
            i hope that ppl from civilized contry/ educated ppl (they call by themself) might not decision making about humanity of another from using langauge ..right?
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          Kathy S · 5 years ago
          Saying something disparaging about someone who is trying to simply defend Michael by criticizing him for having the education and courage to make a controversial post in a language not his own. Especially a language which does not have the same linguistic roots is wonderfully humorous irony of the kind I could never come up with. How many English speaking people could hope to come near that in the Thai language using the Thai alphabet?

          Thank you for the grins!
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    Douglas White · 5 years ago
    You say he is stalking you - But YOU are the one who is going through all of his Facebook pictures??? Sloppy journalism that stinks of jealousy!!!!
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    อัคนิวาต เดอะ พายุ · 5 years ago
    If AMM, abusively used the influence of mass media, could attacked anyone including you, as he's pleased, on a groundless fact basing on his prejudice belief and lacking of research, just to serve his own ego and didn't care the truth, he is deserved to be hated and condemned. Nothing is from nothing; That's Karma.
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    David Michael · 5 years ago
    Dear Michael,
    When I get a mosquito bite it itches like hell, but the more I pay attention to it the more it itches. Although it requires a bit of discipline, I have learned to ignore the itch and eventually it goes away. I hope the analogy is not lost on an intelligent gentleman such as yourself.
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    Harlan Wolff · 5 years ago
    Well done Michael, it needed to be said. I am pleased to say I was blocked by him out of his fear readers (disciples) might see what I thought of him. He is a despicable man and I concur that he has no respect for Thailand or its culture.
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    Robert Whittier · 5 years ago
    Using AMM's own postings, you have succeeded in hoisting him on his own petard. Good journalism.

    One minor quibble: Scottish is not British? That may end up being true after their independence referendum in September, but it is at least premature to imply that such is the case today.
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      Austen Lennon · 5 years ago
      It is very much British and many fine Scottish Soldiers have fought and died to remain British. Did you misspeak?
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        Capers · 5 years ago
        This is just silly. Regardless of the result of the forthcoming referendum, Scotland is, as it has always been, a part of the island of Britain. This is a simple matter of geography and has nothing to do with national or political divisions.
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    James M · 5 years ago
    He's also a drug abuser. At his parties in Bangkok he regularly smoked and provided methamphetamines for guests, passing the pipe around to friends and the bargirls he invited for the night. He's bragged about his drug use on the blogs of other journalists. He abuses drugs. He abuses women. He abuses the handicapped. What a guy. A real Red hero.
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      Michael Y · 5 years ago
      Please contact me: michael.yon@gmail.com
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    Tommy Barrios · 5 years ago
    This narcissistic jackanapes reminds of that whacko who shoots mice with an AR-15 and acts like a big ZERO! Uh, What his Name, See Forgot Already :zzz

    One observation I do have is that this whacko is some kinda pervert, hanging out with young girls that look barely pubescent, the rest are nothing more than Red Light trash prostitutes that wouldn't be allowed in any decent comfort house

    SHALOM!
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      Thomas · 5 years ago
      These ladies are not prostitutes but reporters, journalists, colleagues, and friends of Andrew. None of them is a teenager. You seem to judge people rather quickly: every beautiful lady is apparently a prostitute.

      You can verify my statement by visiting Andrew's facebook where he has tagged the persons in his pictures. This way you can go to the FB page of the actual ladies who you call prostitutes to find out that they are not only adults but also hold respectable jobs.

      Please stop judging people based on a badly researched article and falling into every trap that Yon has set for you (insinuating that Andrew sleeps around, sleeps with prostitutes, and only parties).
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    Austen Lennon · 5 years ago
    We need to know who our 'experts' are. Keep up the good work of exposing them.... try to ignore the comments which try to use the old trick of 'this is beneath you' or 'You are better than this' - that is just a tired old way to try to defend the indefensible.
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    MarkR · 5 years ago
    Michael

    Stop

    Take a step back.

    You are walking into his world and giving him the oxygen of legitimacy.

    As ex - mil you should know which battles to fight. This isn't one of them. Most of the people that follow your blog are "Reasonable" and can make up our minds.

    Concentrate on what you do best, and stop scratching this flea bite. Eventually it will go away.

    The mark of a man is knowing when to walk away
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    German R. · 5 years ago
    Michael, thank you for going through AMM FB and compiling a best of of pretty pictures. Yiou saved me a lot of time and brought enjoyment to my life. No comments on your text because I was utterly distracted.
    Keep up the good work and TMZ can close down soon.

    Thx

    G
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    Seymour Balunot · 5 years ago
    Andrew Marshall has posted an infinitude of horrific commentary about the Thai Royal Family on his personal Facebook page.

    He routinely mocks the appearance, the health, and the conduct of members of the Thai Royal Family, and he publishes negative aspersions about them that transgress sensible limits and are intended to shock the conscience.

    The statements of Marshall are far beyond customary political commentary. To say that they verge on advocacy is an understatement. For Marshall, words and ideas are weapons, and he assaults the Thai Royals in ways that unforgivably offends most Thai people.

    Anyone who searches Marshall's Facebook posts will quickly understand that Marshall is a mortal enemy of the Thai Royalty, and he holds Thailand and the people of Thailand in contempt.

    Mike Yon has done the world a service, exposing Andrew Marshall. After this article, no publisher, no media outlet, can ever again publish the work of Andrew Marshall and claim that they did not know precisely who he is.

    Marshall is no opinion maker. His commentaries are forever undermined by his rude, inconsiderate mockery of the defenseless and the powerful.

    It has to be wondered: where can a malign personality like Marshall possibly go after this?
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    Tim · 5 years ago
    At least one of those pretty "ladies" has a rather prominent adam's apple.
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    Firmtotalk · 5 years ago
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning Marshall is British. The former journalist Marshall who obsesses about bar girls is Scottish. Needless to say, this leads to confusion.

    - yeah about your intelligence, don't you know the difference? Scots are Brits you ignorant sod.

    England and Britain are not the same thing.
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      Michael Yon writer · 5 years ago
      Speaking of Ignorant Sods, Firmtotalk, you might have imagined someone mentioning England. England was not mentioned in the piece. You might also have missed that Scotland is on the verge of succession.
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    Alphadork · 5 years ago
    Some of this is apt and informative - but a lot of it just seems petty and trite. I think those aspects of this piece are beneath you, Michael. Either the guy is utterly irrelevant (in which case, there's no "feud" and no reason to give him any attention) or else he matters, if to nobody else, to you. You make him matter, when you give him this much attention. As big an ass and an embarrassment as he is, I continue to think that the best response to him and his ilk is to ignore them.
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      Michael Yon writer · 5 years ago
      I disagree in total. Firstly, there is no feud. People like Marshall have often tried to make something like this look like a feud because it builds their stature as someone worth feuding with. People who have followed my work for years have often early on thought I was mindlessly feuding with someone, only later to realize that it was real. Such as with Brigadier General Daniel Menard. My work led to his reduction in rank to colonel. He was kicked out of the Army, and later imprisoned in Afghanistan for "gun running." (Recently released.) Only with retrospect does everyone realize that I was telling the truth, though many tried to frame it as a feud at the time.

      Most importantly, influencers such as CNN and BBC still use Marshall as an expert on current events, when he has not even stepped foot in Thailand for years, and even when he was here, his experience base was small. He makes himself out to be some sort of war correspondent, yet nobody seems to remember any of his work from the wars. Where is it? The credibility of "experts" is important to test. When they throw a diploma or certificate of authenticity on the table, it is important to actually see if this is just a sham. The biggest shams often are built one a base of truth. For instance, Marshall actually was in Iraq, but where is his body of work? My work and that of other serious war correspondents is easy to find with a simple web search. Whatever he may have produced is not remembered. We already know that Marshall is a fraud. The question is how deep the fraud goes.
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    Nuad Namman · 5 years ago
    Thank you Michael for this wonderful information. Now what AMM said will be meaningless to most people, due to the evidences that reflect upon his attitude and behaviour.

    :lol:
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    HM · 5 years ago
    As one of the ladies in the pictures, I can say that I was in attendance to a social gathering that Andrew hosted. I am neither a hooker nor a barroom girl or transgender even, so I find this post to be utterly despicable . I knew nothing of this Michael Lyon before this and I find involving innocent people in your smear campaign so low , completely beneath professional journalism. Say what you will of Andrew but leave the rest of us out of it!
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      Michael Yon writer · 5 years ago
      You must have missed these three sentences:

      "To be clear, this is not to imply that any of these many women are prostitutes. We will get to those later. From Marshall’s own Facebook:"

      You also misspelled my name. It is not Lyon.

      I have never spent a day as a journalist. Please do some homework.

      Marshall advertises himself as an academic of high repute, when he posts pictures of himself (and apparently you), that makes him look like a party animal with poor judgement. Even teenagers should realize that constant pictures of their parties set to public domain are what causes people jobs and reputations. You might consider to stop partying with friends who will plaster your face all over their Facebook, and then make public spectacles of themselves expecting that nobody will look.
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        German R. · 5 years ago
        .... should be the correct spelling. 8)
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    Hmmm · 5 years ago
    I don't know if you are able to access AMM's Facebook profile but I've come across this post and found it to be interesting that AMM's lets his 'friends' do the dirty work and personally attack a girl who's just pointing out the obvious.

    https://www.facebook.com/zenjournalist/posts/10152445487031154?notif_t=comment_mention
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    Matt · 5 years ago
    Good exposure of Andrew McGregor Marshall. I was in the Reuters office in London during this period. He was infamous and disliked even then. His work is not entirely original and Reuters challenged him to quote sources. He was not able to do so. He has had a grudge against Reuters, Thailand, and the rest of the world ever since (with the exception of his New Mandala fan club) Whether he is unhinged or not I am of an open mind. He is devious and manipulative. There is evidence that he is closer to New Mandala than they admit. He stalks me too and I have blocked him.
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