See also: Jason DeParle's Unpatriotic Struggle Against John Tanton And Patriotic Immigration Reform

I read Peter Brimelow’s lengthy piece on the lawsuit against the New York Times. Two quick—at least, I hope I can be quick instead of being verbose as I usually am—comments:

1. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

Years ago when I was a student at the University of Georgia in the late sixties, a few years after the Sullivan decision, I was at a party.

One of the other kids there was a graduate student whom I did not know and don't remember. It was a "normie" party of just a bunch of students, random friends of one of my nonpolitical friends.

He mentioned that he had majored in journalism and I asked him what he thought about the Sullivan case.

He was surprisingly blasé about it. Didn't really champion it. Didn't really criticize it.

But one thing he said was very interesting and I have never forgotten it.

He said that when the Sullivan case came out, the journalism professors were ecstatic. They were running up and down the halls screaming for joy. They told the students that journalists could now say virtually anything they wanted to. Didn't have to worry about liability. Didn't have to verify facts. Just Heaven!

The journalism graduate student did mention that he was surprised and put off at this gloating and delight at being unchained from responsibility to check sources and be careful of facts.

2. Jason DeParle:

I have had one encounter with DeParle [Email him] and it mirrors your own.

Some years ago the New York Times put together a hit piece on U.S. Inc. founder John Tanton researched and written by DeParle. (Pictured right.)

DeParle, right, called me at my office and left a message that he worked for the New York Times and wanted to interview me.

I was somewhat reluctant but Jared Taylor urged me to contact him because if I didn't, he would cite my refusal to talk as validating whatever the article said.

So, I called him.

We spoke for a long time…about 45 minutes.

Easter may not bring America the victory in the war against the coronavirus pandemic that President Donald Trump anticipated. But in this Holy Week, we may be reaching our Saratoga moment, our turning point.

While New York state reported a record number of deaths from the virus on Tuesday, over 1,800, new hospitalizations were down.

Referrals of patients to ICUs were down. Intubations were down. And the discharge rate for patients from hospitals was holding steady.

The thousands of ventilators Gov. Andrew Cuomo had been crying out for are, apparently, not immediately needed. The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort moored on the Hudson with a capacity of 1,000 beds remains largely empty. So, too, are the thousands of beds in Manhattan's Javits Center, which has been converted into an emergency hospital.

"We are flattening the curve," exulted Cuomo on Wednesday, "Thank God. Thank God. Thank God."

Predictions of 1 million to 2 million U.S. deaths are no longer heard.

Earlier: Blacks Want Reporting Of Coronavirus Victims Because Of "Hardest Hit," Media Refusing Because Of "Not Reporting Race" Rules

Comrades! I have some important news. The Inner Party has issued a decree. The Main Stream Media can now talk about racial differences in the impact of Covid-19 (a piece of Thoughtcrime I have been committing since February 1, almost alone). They can’t be entirely honest about why these differences exist. However, it is permitted to highlight the fact of their existence.

This is because Covid-19 seems to be disproportionately impacting American blacks. So it can be used as an excuse to claim that elevated minority deaths are due to “inequality” and “white privilege.” In other words, race differences in the impact of Covid-19 in majority white countries can be weaponized in order evoke guilt in whites and help bring their majority status to an end.

So, let’s look at how our Woke masters are reporting this fact and the reasons for it, which naturally, they are only partially reporting or, in some cases, ignoring entirely.

The manifestly politically neutral Ibram X. Kendi [Tweet him] Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, recently penned a piece on how the pandemic “seems to be hitting people of color the hardest” [What the Racial Data Show, By Ibram. X. Kendi, The Atlantic, April 6, 2020]. In it, In it, Kendi, pictured right, explains that “last week” he began to campaign to have detailed Covid-19 racial data released by every state because—

When I examine the trickle of data from states and counties on coronavirus patients, when I scrutinize the racial demographics of hot spots, when I study the survey data, it sure seems to me as if the viral pandemic is hitting people of color the hardest.”

In New York, for example, racial disparities could only be crudely estimated from the number of Covid-19 deaths in a given borough, taken together with the ethnic composition of the borough. But where actual race data has been released, notes Kendi, it is bad news for “people of color.” Michigan is 14% black but 40% of Covid-19 deaths are black. 

Earlier: Public Health Officials, Media Need To Report Coronavirus Deaths By Race

It’s probably a coincidence, but I notice that as businesses go under, jobs are lost, careers are ended and trillions of dollars are drained from the economy, the people most avidly pushing the coronavirus panic are doing quite well.

No politician or government official has taken a salary cut. To the contrary, dusty bureaucrats now find the entire country transfixed by their every utterance. Cable news hosts still make millions of dollars—and now they get to work from home!

Annoyingly, though, journalists can’t seem to relay the basic elements of a news story: who, what, where and why.

First, who’s dying? It appears to be mostly the old, people with specific medical conditions and vapers.

To be sure, that’s not as important as daily updates on Chris Cuomo’s personal battle with the coronavirus, but it might be kind of important to the 17 million Americans who’ve been thrown out of work, many of whom are not elderly, immunocompromised or vapers.

Second, the “what.” What exactly constitutes a “coronavirus death”?

Earlier, by Washington Watcher II: WuFlu Brings Anarcho-Tyranny To America

LiveStream with Michelle Malkin and Peter Brimelow here at 3:00 PM Eastern, Wednesday, April 8, 2020.

This week in Colorado, our statewide stay-at-home order was extended until April 26. Gov. Jared Polis urged everyone to wear a mask of any kind while outdoors. Local groceries are limiting customers to one every 120 square feet of the store. For the first time, my neighborhood playground on Tuesday was wrapped in bright yellow "CAUTION" tape. And in Brighton, Colorado, a father was handcuffed in an empty park by three police officers for playing T-ball with his 6-year-old daughter and wife.

We are not a serious country. America's "social distancing" campaign has gone both too far and not far enough. The restrictions and guidelines are arbitrary, irrational and unevenly applied.