"Tell it like it is," wrote Spiegel on its latest magazine cover page, in an allusion to the publication's motto by its founder Rudolf Augstein that also hangs at the entrance of its headquarters in Hamburg. In its editorial, the magazine said the scam, involving subjects including Syrian orphans and a Holocaust survivor, is the "worst thing that can happen to an editorial team." The AfD, whose supporters often attack mainstream media as "lying press", has been openly gloating over the scandal. "Before him there have also been other fraudsters who have fuelled the accusation of a lying press. But THE lying press doesn't exist.

Source: dna December 21, 2018 16:07 UTC