There is money to be made promoting fear. So he is running a crowd funding program to pay him to make a "documentary" about a"possible" war. What an ass. He is just another hack trying to use people's fear to extract money from them for himself.
I think with the state journalism is in today, the future is ultimately going to lie with state funded news organizations (with varying degrees of editorial independence) and independent journalist-producers who rely on their reputation to help acquire funding for their work. Eventually, we'll start to see journalist co-operatives acting as news aggregators where all the freelancers critique each others' work. It'll be "democratic" news, but not the sort of "citizen journalism" we hear about today (which seems to mean "some dude took a pic with his phone and sent it to a News Corp affiliate"). If anything, it's the Big Media companies who've made fear and anxiety the center of their businesses. That's not to say promoting fear isn't a nice little earner or that their aren't independent publishers blogging and posting YouTube who turn up the rhetoric for clicks and ad revenue, but there's some quality work out there too. Pilger, for example, doesn't pretend his work is unbiased and looking critically at the angle he approaches a subject from is a large part of what makes his work interesting. If there was anyone else out there doing quality, long form journalism on the Ukraine that provides a different point of view to Pilger's, I'd be interested in seeing that too.
RT running a spot with John Pilger - a long time critic of both the US and British administrations - seems a bit disingenuous. That said, I don't think he's too far off the mark with the whole Ukraine thing, which has been pathetically reported internationally, and has the potential to really turn into a nasty, nasty business....
