In the global information space raging war for minds. The success of the Russian television news network Russia Today changes the position of the scales: the West suddenly found himself on the defensive.
Despite the fact that the project is relatively new television channel, he was able to compete with the larger Western news channels and even overtake them in popularity. This fact is already recognized in Europe.
Recently there was an article in the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, where journalists acknowledge that the success of the global television network RT changes the balance of power in the global media space. Today RT is one of the most effective tools of Russian foreign policy, and this raises serious concerns in the West, where the fear of losing the information war.
Analyzing the principles of the Russian TV channel, a German journalist, trying to figure out the reasons for its success with such a wide audience.
Today RT watching 630 million viewers in more than one hundred countries around the world, reports InoTV. More than 2 thousand. Employees provide round the clock broadcasting in four languages: Russian, English, Arabic and Spanish.
In the UK, RT - is the most popular foreign English-language channel. In the US, it ranks second after the BBC. Russian TV channels managed to avoid Western competitors, and the Internet. In YouTube RT leads in the number of views of video news topics.
The article is mapped ether RT, CNN and BBC for March 7. If the western channels focused on North Korea and the UN sanctions, their Russian colleagues have also reported on the situation in Syria. The plot of the Syrian rebels who seized the peacekeepers hostage Successive: about US drones, sowing discontent in Pakistan and Israeli soldiers mistreated children.
This RT is credited with detailed coverage of the project WikiLeaks. The channel is closely monitoring the fate of an American soldier Bradley Manning and Julian Assange went on the air with its own program World Tomorrow.
The fact that the US is "losing the global information war", Hillary Clinton warned two years ago. Today, these concerns are shared for many. As the newspaper writes, the media are fighting for people's minds. The success of the RT could encourage other countries, such as China and lead to the creation of new television networks that broadcast around the world in several languages. And in this case, the author concludes, "Western democracies have a very hard time."
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