what exactly did the ambassador so the america's ambassador to germany richard grinnell yesterday wrote a letter to the spiegel basically using what appears to be a one off i'll be a very extreme case of a journalist lying to paint a bigger picture of bias and anti-americanism at the magazine the pub legal has the letter published it we have it here it says it's clear we the united states were targeted by institutional bias he goes on to say that reporters are responding to what leadership wants accusing spiegel of allowing this atmosphere of bias to flourish grinnell ends the letter by calling for an open independent investigation into this so-called anti blatant anti-americanism at spiegel so is he casting his net a little too wide here or is he right. right well course spiegel pushes back a bit they published a letter of their own today in response to grinnell's letter we have that as well in that the deputy editor in chief says he admits that the magazine's safeguarding