The Dark Side of News Fixing: The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1st Edition

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.The Dark Side of News Fixing: The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan and Afghanistan 1st Edition is written by Syed Irfan Ashraf and published by Anthem Press (NBN). ISBNs for The Dark Side of News Fixing are 9781839981395, 1839981393 and the print ISBNs are 9781839981371, 1839981377. Additional ISBNs include 9781839981388.