brent: for more, i am joined by our political correspondent, leonie hammerstein.s we heard in your report, these accusations have been circulating quite some time. why did it take the new york times to break down -- to bring down that editor. guest: as we heard, there were some german journalists who had investigating the allegations for months and were due to publish the findings but the publisher prevented the from doing so. and a rival german media group to axel springer said in a statement that they canceled the story to, quote, "avoid the impression that we might want to harm a competitor." many here in germany saw this as sort of yet another sign of powerful men being seen reluctant to criticize other powerful men. we have to remember, germany's publishing world is dominated by large companies, most of them run by men. so that caused the first outcry. the second outcry came when the new york times published its report about the editor's alleged affair with an axel springer trainee. this in a powerful american newspaper, it comes at a time when axel springer