OLD MEDIA, YOU ARE DEAD, NEW MEDIA IS THRIVING AND HOW NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR, YEONMI PARK, MOVED ME TO TEARS.

An opinion piece by Anita Krishna.

As a person who has spent most of her life working in television, I find myself never watching it anymore…mainly because I’m sick to death of what’s being left out. Like many of us these days, we’re turning to Rumble, Bitchute, and whatever partially censored YouTube videos we can, to find programming that speaks to us. I have always worked in a professional TV studio throughout my career, working with directors, editors, a feed room, cameramen, audio, professional lighting grids, control rooms with up to date equipment, expensive cameras, high end software, technical staff and engineers to help us when things broke. This was true at CKVU/City TV when I worked there and also at CTV. I know about good audio, mic techniques, good camera framing and storytelling and how to properly cut an interview and deliver a polished TV show.  But now I find myself only watching videos with podcasters recording from webcams in living rooms, offices or frontline on the ground and yet I’m watching some of the best real content and information I’ve ever seen in my life.

Which brings me to a podcast I watched recently that had me crying more than I cried when I watched Sophie’s Choice on my shag carpet on our enormous Hitachi TV. It was Jordan Peterson interviewing Yeonmi Park, a young woman who escaped from North Korea, sold to a Chinese child trafficker in 2007 at the age of 13. It was only twenty minutes into the interview, I didn’t think I could bear to hear anymore. As a child, her father was sent to a brutal prison camp, where he was starved and tortured.  His crime? Trying to survive and support his family by selling grains and metals, this is considered black market activity. Her mother disappeared for months at a time trying to find money for Yeonmi and her sister.

At the age of eight, one of Yeonmi’s jobs was to skin rabbits, the fur was used to make soldiers uniforms in the North Korean army. Just stop there and imagine that, you are 8 years old and have to skin rabbits, my kids can’t open pop bottles if the lids are too tight and these children are skinning bunnies. It was also required for her to bring her own excrement and go around collecting waste from other humans and animals to bring to her “school.” Now imagine this also, she had to collect human and dog waste, including her own, to be used as fertilizer or face punishment. How is this being done? Does she have rubber gloves and plastic containers? Not bloody likely. What a disgusting and demoralizing thing for anyone to do and she had to do this by force. She also wasn’t eating enough food as it was. She was constantly starving and extremely malnourished. Food we wouldn’t consider to be food like black potatoes and dry cabbage boiled in water was a good meal. She would have to catch dragonflies and crickets to eat. She said she would roast them, which doesn’t mean heating in a pan with olive oil and seasoning. There’s no electricity there at night. This means heating them with a lighter and eating them.

North Korea is essentially a country that is one large concentration camp and yet, the Western world lets this go on. While their despicable leader Kim Jong Un, parades around with his stupid haircut and fat body. How dare he be fat? People die in the street starving there, while he prances around plump on purpose. Yet we let him carry on rather than go in with military might and take him out. We’re pretending Putin is a threat because it suits the agenda of the corrupt West.  Hey, forget about Putin he’s actually winning the war, go take out fat Kim, nukes or not. Remember, we could go to war for fake weapons of mass destruction, why can’t we go take out a real threat to humanity?

Park said the only thing that she could do that was free, was breathe. It made me think, if she had a mask on her face she wouldn’t be able to do even do that. It’s funny how now we’re seeing fake meat and bug eating being shoved down our throats, while real farmers are being forced to curb fertilization. For what? The people and animals of this earth are not the criminals but we now know who is. Park also said, “How do you fight for freedom, when you don’t even know you’re a slave?” It just made me think of us here in Canada and the folks who are unaware and brainwashed by the double speak of the media, they are captive too but oblivious. Not to the same extent, but it doesn’t take much to kill society as we know it.

The level at which Yeonmi Park was dehumanized is beyond my comprehension. Her story only gets more harrowing and painful. What I just explained, doesn’t even scratch the surface of what she goes onto describe about how she survived and escaped. It’s really an interview I think should be essential viewing in schools. She finally made it to New York, to Columbia University, where she was stunned by extreme wokeness and felt she had to oppress herself all over again but in a different way.

This brings me to how I started this piece, I’m so glad television programming as I know it is dying a fast death. You can have your old media and your old useless newscasts that tell us nothing. I will take a simple podcast from someone’s house any day before I listen to the garbage that comes from our news networks about what’s really happening in the world. CBC, CTV and Global, you are done. Out with old media and in with the new media.

Now to those that speak up and are doing something about this world, you are heroes. We see you and hear you. To all the fighters against oppression, you have my utmost respect. To those that remain silent, I’m getting very frustrated with you.

You need to know it’s all connected. This circle of crisis, is no accident in the west. Your injections, your fear mongering, your gas prices, your food prices, your unethical government, your lying media, your ridiculously rainy weather, then your extreme scorching sun, your deliberate homeless problem, your drug problems, your unattainable house prices, your avian flu at chicken farms, your monkey pox, your bullshit environmental policies, your fertilizer cap on farmers, your dehumanizing of innocent citizens, your controlled demolition of the economy, it’s all the cause of YOUR government and their corrupt affiliations—but the worst part of all this to me, is YOUR SILENCE.

ANITA KRISHNA is a journalist based in Canada. She worked for Global News in Vancouver for more than 20 years and has worked for three major Canadian networks. She now hosts her own channel on Rumble, called AKStraightSpeaks.

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To see JP’s full interview search: Tyranny, Slavery and Columbia U | Yeonmi Park | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - S4: E26