Jerry Falwell, Jr. was forced to respond to recent attacks by The New York Times on the Christian university.

The New York Times falsely reported that 12 students were sick with coronavirus on campus and that the university was irresponsible with its coronavirus response.

President Falwell hit back twice as hard.

Prime example of why you never believe anything @nytimes says about @LibertyU. Complete liars. https://t.co/blA4rokPd4 — Jerry Falwell (@JerryFalwellJr) March 29, 2020

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The campus even published an official response to the latest NY Times hit piece.

The campus stayed open for adult students who concluded the campus would be the safest place to be.

Why is that controversial?

What if you had a sick family member? Did the NY Times want you to stay at home?

The only Liberty students that are here are adult students who have concluded that this is the only place they have or safest and best place to be, among what may be limited options. (3/5) — Jerry Falwell (@JerryFalwellJr) March 26, 2020

The Washington Times reported:

The New York Times published a false and misleading story on March 29 claiming that Liberty University “students started getting sick” after students returned to campus from spring break. The Times attributed this erroneous conclusion about 12 students with symptoms to a local doctor who has consulted with Liberty. The truth is a far different story. Both the numbers and the sequencing are wrong. Dr. Thomas Eppes, who was quoted in the Times’ story, denies he ever told the reporter that Liberty had about a dozen students were sick with symptoms that suggest COVID-19. He gave figures for testing and self-isolation that are consistent with Liberty’s numbers but the New York Times preferred to go forward with sensational click-bait that increases traffic. Many news organizations are now following the Times’ lead. At about 12:30 pm on Sunday afternoon, a New York Times reporter emailed a university spokesperson with a list of 12 questions to be answered for a story that was going to run in the paper on Monday. About 20 minutes later, she wrote to say that the story would go online in a few hours. Liberty immediately began gathering specific answers to all the questions, President Falwell called the reporter and gave her an interview, providing the information he had. The story was posted at 3:00 pm but unfortunately contained several errors. Contrary to the Times’ reporting, Liberty is not aware of any students in its residence halls testing positive for COVID-19 or, in fact, being tested at all, much less any residence hall students having sufficient symptoms of COVID-19 prompting the need to get tested based on current CDC guidelines. The University promptly provided the reporter detailed numbers on the student cases and requested corrections. A minor addition to the story was made but the overall false impression is left. So the University is offering the facts in this statement.

"What’s more, they said, health and safety guidelines about social distancing and other protective measures are being fully enforced. Meanwhile, they added, campus is a ghost town and all classes remain online. They also said they feel safe." (2/2)https://t.co/o5uKFz4njG — W. Scott Lamb (@WScottLamb) March 31, 2020

The Washington Times reported: