The dark side of news fixing : the culture and political economy of global media in Pakistan and Afghanistan

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Front Matter
	Half-title
	Title page
	Copyright information
	Dedication
	Contents
	List of figures
	About the author
	Acknowledgments
Chapter Int-null
	Introduction
		The Local Relations of Global News Production
		The “Fixer”: Marx’s Proletarian
		The Local Journalist: The Three-Tier News Production Model
		Methodological and Theoretical Applications
		Outline of the Book
	Chapter One Laying Bare the Malala Story
		Molvi and Malala: The Story of Swat
		The Destruction of Schools: Taliban Reviving Colonial Tradition
		What If the Documentary Wins an Award?
		Neoliberal Logic: Local Violence, Global Messiah
		Did the NYT Put Malala in Harm’s Way?
		Faceless Wars? Of Course Not
		A “Fixer”: An Emotional Labor in Corporate Media
		The “Fixer’s” Reflexive Experience: An Overview
		Conclusion
	Chapter Two The “Fixer”: Journalism’s Dark Secret
		“Fixer”: Anatomical Metaphors and Subjugation
		Global News Production: Changing Dynamics
		The Parachute Journalist and the “Fixer”: A New Labor Formation
		Global News Production: International Journalist, Local Proletarian
		Precarious Labor: Consumer Markets and Flexible Labor
		The Ideal Labor and the Terror “Enterprise”
		Materiality of the Local Body: An Overview
		The “Fixer”: A Hyper-Precarious Existence
	Chapter Three Pashtuns as Potential “Fixers”: News Work in a State of War
		Imperialist Games: Stateless Existence
		Local Journalism in Colonized Space
		Frontline State: Neoimperialism, Ethnicity and Media
		Return of the Great Game: Media in Frontline State
		The National Media: Local News Production
		History Matters: Pashtuns under British Colonialism
		Local Journalists Caught in a State of Global War
		Conclusion
	Chapter Four The Afghan Beat: Journalism as War
		The Afghan Jihad: The Zia Era
		Struggle against State Oppression
		Imperialist War: Reporting Empowers the Disempowered
		District Reporters: War, Solidarity and Social Exclusion
		Capitalism and Jihad: Extremism at Large
		A Seismic Shift in Local Journalism
		Pashtun Reporters: Workers in the Imperialist Tradition
		Domesticated Resistance
		Strategic Depth Theory: Military Fallacy or Total War?
		Conclusion
	Chapter Five The “Fixer”: Local Labor, Global Media
		Media Circus and al-Qaida’s Escape
		The Pashtun Belt in the Grip of the War Frenzy
		“Fixers”: Children of a Lesser God
		How Did Local Reporters Become “Fixers”?
		“Fixer”: A Key to Local Knowledge Network
		Unethical Journalism: News Practices
		Tabloid Press/Journalism
		Shuttling between Supply and Demand Reporting
		“Fixer” Field Position: Logistical or Editorial Labor?
		Structural Compulsions: Working Precariously
		“Fixer”: The Contradiction of Capital
		News “Fixing”: Daily Wage Journalism
	Chapter Six Buying Low, Selling High: The Hunt for bin Laden
		The US Attack: Bin Laden—the Terror Prince
		The District Reporters’ Hunt for al-Qaida
		Post-attack Pack Journalism: Hunting for al-Qaida News
		The Tora Bora Fiasco
		Chance: The Canon of Conflict Reporting
		The Shifting Relations of News Production
		On-Demand Reporting
		The al-Qaida Revolt
		Divided Bodies, Siphoning Labor
		News Contamination: The Cost of Labor Extraction
		Global Media Shifting Priorities
		The “Fixer”: An Embodiment of War
	Chapter Seven Impunity: The New Normal
		Privatization: The Irony of the State
		Global Terrorists as “Special Guests”
		Local Coverage, Global Implications
		Trivializing Terror: The Redefinition of News Practices
		News Primacy over Reporters’ Security
		Kalusha Operation: Journalists Caught in the Cross Fire
		The First Casualties of the War
		Family: The Achilles’ Heel
		Terrorism Got Mainstream: Military, Militants and Media
		Video Journalist: A Hypervigilant Labor Function
		Impunity: The Neoliberal Normal
		Commercialism and Hyper-Precariousness: The Double Whammy
		Global War on the Local
	Chapter Eight Reporting with Marx
		Labor and Capital: Marx’s Theory of Exploitation
		Capitalist Temporality: Proletarian Insecurity
		Making Sense of Global War
		The “Fixer”: A Hope in Haze
		A View from “Somewhere” versus a View from “Nowhere”
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	Appendix
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Index