Off the Media: Fixers, Like Bilal Hussein, In a Fix

A lot of Iraq this week on “On the Media.” What sticks out to us is the story about “fixers,” meaning the natives in foreign lands who do everything a foreign correspondent can’t — because the corro can’t speak the language, doesn’t know how to do simple stuff there like rent a car or get a room or buy supplies, or, in the case of Iraq, might get killed or kidnapped because he’s a Westerner.

Fixers are often the reason a reporter gets a story — in fact, sometimes are the real reporters.

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