On September 22, 2014 Mr Nick Gowing, former BBC news presenter (1996-2014), shared his views on modern information space at the NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Today's media goes beyond traditional concept that is evident from numerous countless posts, blogs, audio, video and photos distributed on social networks all over the world in real time. The prominent international broadcaster widely used as example the developments in Ukraine, from the revolutionary Maidan to current undeclared war of Russia against Ukraine. In particular, he demonstrated materials on MH17 tragedy that happened in Ukrainian skies as the illustration.
During the talk after the presentation Ambassador of Ukraine to Singapore Pavlo Sultansky offered to discuss the "nature of success" of the Kremlin’s propaganda among not a few politicians, government officials, journalists, etc.
According to the pundit, Russia is taking tremendous efforts for this and uses a comprehensive approach to work with the audience. Filtering and perverted presentation of information is a characteristic feature of all dictatorships, said Mr Nick Gowing. In his opinion, corruption is an essential part of the state-controlled media, that is why journalism bears great responsibility towards society for the accuracy of what is published.




