{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Get Me to the Gray","title":"War Coverage Without a Fixer: What We're Not Seeing in Iran — Amjad Tadros","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1819,"description":"War coverage depends on infrastructure most audiences never see. The fixer — the local journalist who arranges access, speaks the language, reads the room, and absorbs the risk — is the reason foreign correspondents can tell any story at all. And the fixer disappears before it airs.Amjad Tadros spent 33 years as CBS News' Middle East producer — one of the most decorated fixers in the history of American broadcast journalism. He won some fights to get the real story through. He lost others. The ones he lost still find him at four in the morning.Now retired and watching a new war unfold from Jordan, Tadros is seeing what happens when that infrastructure collapses entirely. There are no independent journalists inside Iran. The internet is restricted. The coverage is being assembled in London and Washington and Dubai from satellite imagery, Telegram channels, and exile sources with their own agendas. The people who would push back on the frame are not in the room.This is what that absence looks like — and what it reveals about what the fixer was actually providing when he was there.Learn more about Amjad Tadros' work and book at amjadtadros.com. His book The Fixer is available on Amazon.For information about how COJA Services teaches narrative strategies that make these kinds of conversations possible, visit cojaservices.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xDm4WEtaY1kuGg7U1xEmiMi5JNX9SnZOz_I9A43MqwA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mNzgz/YjQ5MmY4NmU1ODBm/YjhiNGIzZjMyNzY4/MWMxNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}