The Dark Side of News Fixing
eBook - ePub

The Dark Side of News Fixing

The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Dark Side of News Fixing

The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan

About this book

This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. It shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror. The book analyzes the fixer as a role in its relationship with militarization. It is not a coincidence that fixers become valuable to commercial media only during the height of violence or crises. Emerging under conditions of scarcity or war, the value of this role, in turn, is intrinsically tied to the fear of extinction. It is this vulnerability or perceived expendability— imposed by the need to find work—that binds fixers in a symbiotic relationship with global market and global war. This book, then, serves as a vantage point from which one can clearly see the connection between the regional wars and commercial media, as well as local journalists' transformation into daily wage earners in a global media shift toward neoliberalism.

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Information

Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781839981371
eBook ISBN
9781839981395
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. About the Author
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter One Laying Bare the Malala Story: Some Tough and Painful Reflections on the “Fixer” Role
  12. Chapter Two The “Fixer”: Journalism’s Dark Secret
  13. Chapter Three Pashtuns as Potential “Fixers”: News Work in a State of War
  14. Chapter Four The Afghan Beat: Journalism as War
  15. Chapter Five The “Fixer”: Local Labor, Global Media
  16. Chapter Six Buying Low, Selling High: The Hunt for bin Laden
  17. Chapter Seven Impunity: The New Normal
  18. Chapter Eight Reporting with Marx
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index