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Legacy ("old") media has lost the trust of many Americans, demonstrated by declining subscribers and declining influence. Some are trying to face that fact, to "right the ship," and to regain trust. Surging in the gap is "new media," including podcasts and X and independent videos/reports. 

For example, there were hundreds of authentic videos (like yesterday's) published on X of real conditions last fall after Hurricane Helene created chaos in western North Carolina.  They challenged some misleading legacy media reports in newspapers and on TV.

We learned not to trust "old" media's version of reality. Now there's an alternative that seems more trustworthy. As Konstantin Kisin says, "what could go wrong?"

Hopefully, new media will prove more reliable. But it will still be produced by flawed human beings, like the "old."

Immigrant POV

Konstantin Kisin was born in Moscow, but came to Britain at the age of 12 with his parents. Naturally, he has a somewhat different point of view than the average Brit. He's grateful to be there, and published An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.

It seems to him that his adopted country has turned to "self-loathing." As an "anti-woke" comedian, he offers a different POV.

Europe's POV

Apparently, some Europeans are "shocked" by the outcome of our presidential election on Tuesday. So a Brit, Konstantin Kisin, wants to explain to them how that outcome is consistent with who we are. 

Why should this British citizen have special knowledge of the American character that the rest of Europe doesn't have? He doesn't say. 

But maybe it could help us to hear how we look to him from across the pond. He has ten points to make about Americans:

1.  We want to be the best 
2.  We don't like the idea of managed decline 
3.  Inflation has driven prices sky high
4.  We don't resent success but are inspired by it
5.  We love immigrants who come legally
6.  We reject DEI because it is racist
7.   We know jihad when we see it
8.  Being very practical, we care about what works, not what sounds good
9.  We reject the negativity of wokeness
10.  We know that the price of freedom is self reliance, and we pay it gladly
    

from a post on X and his website

Stop hiding

A widespread, public discussion about immigration is urgently needed across the United Kingdom and the West. Despite that vote (yesterday's post) against investigation in Parliament, grooming gang crimes should no longer be hidden (photo) in Britain.

Konstantin Kisin names a basic issue that should be talked about openly, civilly, honestly, without censorship and without fear of reprisal:

"Western countries won't stop suffering terrorist attack after terrorist attack until they let go of their most cherished belief: that all people are equal and that all cultures are the same."

A crime is a crime in Britain and everywhere, whether it's committed by natives of your country or by immigrants to your country. 

Konstantin speaks

ARC's (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) conference in London presented some good people. Last week I mentioned the brave and admirable Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Konstantin Kisin, whose parents brought him to Britain from Russia, is another. He likes to joke about woke thinking.

Some lines from the talk of this combination comedian and clear thinker:

"I love this country, and that is how you know that I still haven't integrated into British culture!"

"DEI, a system of anti-merit discrimination, is being dismantled [in America] and in the global corporate world as well. Once again we can dream that our children will be judged on the content of their character [referencing Martin Luther King] . . and not the color of the square they post on Instagram."