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by BjoernKW 2054 days ago
This might have something to do with national bias.

In Germany, where BioNTech is based, news articles (or rather: German-language articles) either mention BioNTech exclusively or cite them as the primary player in the BioNTech / Pfizer partnership.
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levosmetalo 2054 days ago
> This might have something to do with national bias.

I would rather say nationalistic bias.

Because the fine German press never put a bombastic headlines like "Migrants invented Covid vaccine", or "Scientists of Turkish origin to save millions of German lives".

Somehow these facts are conveniently ignored, but when a person with migration heritage do something bad, it's vocally mentioned in all media, including the mainstream.

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_0ffh 2054 days ago
Straight up wrong!

The opposite is true, the names of criminal migrants are usually suppressed in the media, for fear of riling up the right. The names of the BioNTech couple are everywhere, as ten seconds of research could have taught you.

https://rp-online.de/panorama/coronavirus/biontech-gruender-...

https://www.tlz.de/leben/vermischtes/biontech-gruender-diese...

https://www.express.de/koeln/corona-impfstoff-erfinder-das-l...

https://www.businessinsider.de/wissenschaft/gesundheit/biont...

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ChuckNorris89 2054 days ago
The populist media is the same in every country: Migrant does something good, he's a local, pop the champagne to celebrate our nation's glorious achievement; migrant does something bad, he's <insert_foreign_nationality>, out with them foreigners.

Tribalism is still deeply rooted in our DNA and the media capitalizez on that since it gets them clicks on their articles.

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