Mission:
As America’s postmodern-deconstructionist left moves evermore aggressively away from objective truths, its academic, cultural, corporate and media elites (or “deletes,” as they’re coming to be known) cheerlead a fevered cancel culture of censorship and black-listing not seen since Stalin and McCarthy. In support of the courageous souls still willing to stand against this rising tide of woke-supremacy, Post-deconstruction will work to spotlight media bias and propaganda as a means to defend individual liberties, representative democracy and the limited-government ideals set forth by our nation’s Founders. By deconstructing one-sided, often willfully misleading news coverage – primarily, but by no means exclusively, that of the Washington Post – the intention is to thwart the tyranny of a vocal, envious, artificially outraged and genuinely unhappy minority.
For many years in his capacity as a media relations professional based in Washington, D.C., the editor of Post-deconstruction has sent hundreds of polite if sometimes pointed emails to journalists at the Washington Post, NPR, the New York Times and other news outlets, critiquing their work much as a journalism professor might have critiqued students’ assignments a few decades ago when largely objective answers to the questions of “who, what, where, when and sometimes why” were valued over purely subjective narratives purporting, for example, that “a U.S. Capitol Police officer was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher by Trump suppoters.” Oh wait, that never happened.
Now such emails, and reporters’ occasionally thoughtful replies, will be published here, along with other forms of media analysis. By asking civil but probing questions about why certain facts are withheld from readers, listeners and viewers, even as self-evident falsehoods (e.g., “mostly peaceful” demonstrations) are presented as dogma, it is hoped that at least some in the media can be reminded of what responsible, First Amendment-worthy journalism is supposed to be. We won’t hold our breath, but it’s even possible that, someday, the peddling of palpably partisan propaganda on presumptively straight news pages and broadcasts may once again be viewed by reporters and editors as the shameful threat to free expression that it always has been and always will be.
The Editor:
Like Ronald Reagan, Michael Novak and other eventually conservative thinkers before him, Darren McKinney started life left-of-center. Tracing his first conscious memories to coverage of the Kennedy assassination by Dan Rather for CBS News, he was inspired to graduate from S.U.N.Y. College at Buffalo with a B.A. in Journalism, Broadcasting and Speech and went on to become an award-winning television journalist in three local markets across the country before moving to Washington, earning an M.A. in American Government and Public Policy from Georgetown University, and then serving as a communications director for two House Democrats, including a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
McKinney left the Hill for an appointment to a public affairs position in the Clinton administration’s Treasury Department. And later, just as his boyhood hero Mr. Rather seemed to begin a transition from sanity to insanity with an obsessed and ultimately fraudulent effort to undermine President George W. Bush, McKinney began a transition of his own by going to work for free-market, pro-growth trade associations. He’s never looked back. Now, like tens of millions of sensible, center-right Americans still committed to the individual liberties and reasonable limits on government enshrined in our Constitution, he might laugh at the Jacobin left’s incessantly fraudulent efforts to undermine America’s imperfect but largely virtuous history and culture if they weren’t such a dangerous threat to the Republic. Post-deconstruction aims to face down that threat.