The first Alex Berenson tweet of the day usually comes roughly seven hours after the last one from the night before. But they soon tumble out like cannon fire, complete with charts, graphs, links to epidemiological studies, extended Twitter threads dunking on anybody who dares express concern about the rising death rate or parrots mainstream news analysis, especially if the poor tweeter happens to be a reporter with the New York Times, where Berenson worked for more than a decade until 2010.
“At this point @nytimes is just making stuff up. Where is the data that lockdowns have slowed the spread of #COVID?” he wrote just a few minutes after 6 a.m. earlier this week, comparing the U.S.’s approach to that of Sweden and Japan, which had only partial lockdowns, and sharing screenshots of a couple of Times stories about Americans’ frustration with social distancing measures. (Japan declared a state of emergency Thursday). A Vice reporter was in Berenson’s crosshairs Wednesday night: He considered her follow-up questions to be a violation of their interview ground rules and proceeded to publish their email exchange. In it, he accused major media outlets of adopting “a tone of near-hysteria for the last month.”
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