The New York Times, which has published a handful of opinion articles attacking Fox News’s Sean Hannity for his early remarks on the coronavirus pandemic, says it will neither retract nor apologize for its commentary disparaging the cable news host.

“The columns are accurate, do not reasonably imply what you and Mr. Hannity alleged they do, and constitute protected opinion,” the newspaper’s deputy general counsel David McCraw said in a note to the Fox host’s attorneys.