a colleague admitted that many details in these pieces were completely made up. the way he operates draws really people he kept people updated about the research he was doing he spoke to his editors about where he was being unsuccessful it was like he took everybody with him honest research trips saw false picture was created and we didn't have the structures to detect it so a canon spiegel sees itself as a standard bearer of tough and factual journalism now spiegel gate has prompted some serious soul searching the problem does not stop with fish beagle the zoo tortured psycho newspapers also revealed the reporter faked parts of interviews. this is a one off case german journalism is in general of high quality but this one of k. should never have happened it's a disaster. we have to deal with this proactively we have to make clear sometimes