《中英對照讀新聞》Race breakthrough for French TV 法國電視台的種族突破

◎鄭寺音

For the first time, the flagship eight o'clock news on the main French commercial television channel TF1 has been presented by a black journalist.

法國主要商業電視頻道TF1最重要的8點新聞，首次由一名黑人記者主播。

Harry Roselmack is filling in for the star anchorman Patrick Poivre d'Arvor while he is on holiday. The move is making headlines in France.

哈瑞．侯瑟馬克在明星主播達禾佛去度假時，填補他的位置。此舉在法國成為頭條新聞。

President Jacques Chirac urged TV stations to hire more people from minorities after last year's riots.

在去年的暴動後，總統席哈克敦促電視台雇用更多的少數族群。

A black woman already presents the less high-profile news on the state-run channel France 3, and a man of Algerian background has presented the news on the public station France 2.

一名黑人女性已在國營的法國第3頻道播出較不具知名度的電視新聞，而一名阿爾及利亞背景的男性，則在公共電視台法國第2頻道播報新聞。

But the arrival of Roselmack, 33, on the most-watched evening news programme is considered a real breakthrough.

但33歲的侯瑟馬克登上最多人收看的晚間新聞節目，被視為一項真正的突破。

He was born in Tours, west of Paris, into a family from the French Caribbean island of Martinique.

他出生於巴黎西方的圖爾一個來自法屬加勒比海馬丁尼克島的家庭。

Roselmack has previously presented the news on smaller channels. French media are pointing out that he is an excellent journalist.

侯瑟馬克過去曾在較小型的頻道主播新聞。法國媒體指出，他是優秀的記者。

"When I do interviews, I am neither black nor white, neither man nor woman - I am a journalist," he told the French daily newspaper Le Figaro.

他告訴法國「費加洛報」：「我訪問時，我不是黑人，也不是白人，不是男人，也不是女人─我是個記者。」

新聞辭典

flagship︰名詞，旗艦，頭號、最重要的東西。例句：This machine is the flagship in our new range of computers.（這部機器是我們新電腦系列的旗艦款。）The company's flagship store is in New York.（這家公司的旗艦店在紐約。）

fill in︰填寫，此指「代替」。例句：I'm not her regular secretary - I'm just filling in.（我不是她平常的秘書，我只是來代班的。）

anchorman︰男主播；anchorwoman，女主播，但現在多用不具性別意味的anchorperson，男女主播都適用。