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.
上週最精彩的事很可能是看上上週六的福克斯新聞(Fox News)。給人的感覺就像柏林圍牆(Berlin Wall)倒塌後的東德國家電視臺。主播們忽然變得公正、以事實爲導向，溫和地糾正那些到最後仍然堅稱「偉大領袖」贏得了光榮勝利的宣傳者。（聲明：我對唐納•川普(Donald Trump)有偏見。這可能是因爲我對謊言、謾罵、玩種族主義的「狗哨政治」、環境破壞、財閥當政和毫無根據的反民主陰謀論抱有偏見。）然後，上週一又有新聞稱，輝瑞(Pfizer)和BioNTech共同研發的新冠疫苗具有90%以上的有效率。