This was the topic for POLIS debate that happened last evening and it was a wonderful experience. One of my first experiences at LSe expsosing me to media in different parts of the world.
Media and more so journalism is not pure business. It has ethics that it needs to comply with and that need to be taken into consideration. Its not completely about what sells but it is also not compeletely about bringing out the truth , was what i felt after the discussion.
There was a clear clash between the "western press" and the "russian media". While the discussion was to docus upon the death of press freedom in Russia it went to discuss much more.
However my key learning from the entire debate was that there needs to be some empathy and some consideration for what stage a country is at - Russia - for sure is going through a transition and though press freedom is important it surely isn't the most important factor currently for the people there.
The debate about the death of press freedom sounded more like the debate between the insider and outsider, between the west and the rest of the world and between democracy and stability.
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