writing a very similar letter about spiegel's coverage about u.s. sanctions in russia so that's nothing new criticism of spiegel being rather outlandish with its reporting in its editorial layout styles also nothing new and sadly journalists occasionally lying and embellish in their stories is also nothing new spiegel is just the next in a long line of major news outlets who have to deal with this problem but the stakes are a lot higher now donald trump is one of the least truth. presidents in history and as we saw in the report before he and his ideological allies in europe for example right here in germany do not need any excuses to call what we do fake so when something in the news business in the news media actually is fake it only makes their job easier and our job much harder secondly william know if you crossed from my digital desk thank you. well the u.s. government has partially shut down after lawmakers missed a deadline for approving a spending bill president donald trump and congress could not agree on the five