The highlight of the week was probably watching Fox News last Saturday. It felt like East German state TV days after the Berlin Wall fell. Suddenly, the anchors were even-handed and fact-driven, gently correcting any to-the-bitter-end propagandists who still insisted that the Great Leader had won a glorious victory. (Declaration of interest: I am biased against Donald Trump. That may be because of my prejudice against lies, abuse, racist dog-whistling, environmental destruction, plutocracy and baseless anti-democratic conspiracy theories.) Then on Monday came news that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against coronavirus may be more than 90 per cent effective.
上周最精彩的事很可能是看上上周六的福克斯新闻(Fox News)。给人的感觉就像柏林墙(Berlin Wall)倒塌后的东德国家电视台。主播们忽然变得公正、以事实为导向，温和地纠正那些到最后仍然坚称“伟大领袖”赢得了光荣胜利的宣传者。（声明：我对唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)有偏见。这可能是因为我对谎言、谩骂、玩种族主义的“狗哨政治”、环境破坏、财阀当政和毫无根据的反民主阴谋论抱有偏见。）然后，上周一又有新闻称，辉瑞(Pfizer)和BioNTech共同研发的新冠疫苗具有90%以上的有效率。