It’s Always the Fixer Who Dies: Interesting Times

It’s difficult not to feel a certain bitterness about the death of Sultan Munadi. He was what journalists call a “fixer,” the local man or woman who helps the foreign correspondent. The help takes every conceivable form: interpreting, finding the phone number of the Iraqi member of parliament, knowing the personal history of the Afghan battalion commander, setting up interviews, hiring a car and driver, figuring out where to get food on a long drive ... Full Story »

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Jose Cazares
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by Jose Cazares - Sep. 12, 2009

Yes, this is quality journalism. However, since it is mostly a personal testament of someone, in this case, Sultan Munadi, the fact that it is neither 'fair' nor 'well sourced,' is irrelevant. Nevertheless, the piece does raise some troubling questions over the nature of Stephen Farrell's 'rescue' specifically, and the general outcome of westerners captured by the Taliban with their 'fixers.'

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