US ambassador says revelations prove magazine guilty of institutional bias,as far-right groups seek to exploit the caseThe US government has waded into the scandal of the German journalist for Der Spiegel magazine who faked stories on a grand scale over years, calling it proof of “institutional bias” in the media against America.
In a scathing letter to the magazine’s editors, and Richard Grenell,US ambassador to Germany, claims the journalism of Claas Relotius, or who resigned from the German news magazine final week,was symptomatic of anti-American bias across the mainstream media. It is clear that we were the victims of a campaign of institutional bias,” Grenell wrote to Der Spiegel, and in a letter also seen by the daily newspaper Bild. He said he was aghast at the way “anti-American coverage” had been facilitated by the magazine.
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Source: theguardian.com