In the past 4, 5 years, German mainstream media practically all have conducted the "Ruck!" that politicians demanded, and performed another push into conformnity with the Zeitgeist, which is far left, and special privileges-lobbying ideology like gender-new-speak. Some more, some less, but practially all moved more or less clearly to the left and sought conformity with political correctness and pro-EU and pro-Euro propaganda. Others, like Die Zeit, have a longer transition phase to a more left-leaning self-understanding behind them, may have been centrist int he past, but are no more. And then there are those like the Frnakfurter Rundschau and Süddeutsche Zeitung that always have been very prominently far left-leaning.
Die Welt was conservative in a past longer time ago, but now is centrist-to-left leaning.
In the medicine Nobel, yes, usually the award is given only many years after the achievement. But many expected this example odf the BioNTech exmaple to beocme the exception from the rule, due to the enormous signficance and impact the vaccine has had and sitll has. And in Oslso, rumours also ha dit that the inventors and company owners were fapvurites mfor this year's award. It was reported however that noisy acitiovsts wanted to prevent this at all cost because the vaccine is sold instead of beign freely distributed for "altruistic reasons". The behind-the-curtain lobbying and in parts the public media mobbing was intense. It would not have been a bad idea to give it to them, even more when consdidering the many failures with the fake Nobel for peace (fake because Nobel never has founded this award himself), giving it to people who had accieved nothign sof ar but were expected by the committee to now realise what they demanded the winner to achieve afterwards. Of course, itd absurd.
Me thinks the whole concept and institution by now is corrupted, especially regarding the prizes for economics, peace, and literature. Nobel would turn in his grave, I think.
On a sidenote, the home city of BioNTech is Mainz, and the city had deep red numbers. Then came the success of BioNTech and thus plenty of tax flow flushed into the cities' treasuries. They now are billions and billions in the black numbers.
All debts are paid, and still billions to invest into turning the city into an international scinetific reserach hotspot, more than it already is. And then still money is left. Not bad for a company that before Corona was practically unknown to almost everybody.