Translated from Hebrew by Rebecca K. Koenigsberg. Edited by Jamye Sharp.
Posted on May 13, 2021.
The first months of Biden’s presidency have been characterized by a media lull that has prevailed thanks to the end of his predecessor’s tenure. Trump evaporated as quickly as it takes to delete one regrettable tweet.
Last week two former U.S. presidents put out official statements. The 44th president, Barack Obama, wrote: “I’ve been appalled by heartbreaking violence against civilians [of Myanmar]. … [The] brutal effort to impose its will … will clearly never be accepted by the people and should not be accepted by the wider world.”
May 12, 2021
Few things in pop culture are the same today as they were in the mid aughts. But
Grey’s Anatomy is still airing on Thursday nights on ABC in the US, and it’s still one of the most popular series on US television. Now it’ll keep going for at least another year the last of a dying breed of broadcast TV dramas.
ABC renewed the hit medical drama for an 18th season, Variety reported. Ellen Pompeo, broadcast television’s highest paid actress, will return to portray the eponymous Dr. Meredith Grey. Shonda Rhimes, who created
Grey’s Anatomy in 2005 and continued to write for it until departing for Netflix in 2017, has said the show will likely stay on the air as long as Pompeo is game.
Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped watching the Oscars on Sunday because he found the broadcast so boring . The Academy Awards on Sunday was watched by 58 per cent fewer viewers than last year, reaching a new record low, and the changes to the order in which prizes were given out was met with controversy. And now The Terminator actor has offered up his negative thoughts about the ceremony. I only watched one-third because it was so boring, he said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! I basically just turned it off. I couldn’t watch it anymore because there was so much talent there on the stage, but it was so boring. How could they with all this talent make it so boring?
Donald Trump comments on recent Oscars
Tia Dufour (via White House) / Wikimedia Commons Thursday, April 29, 2021 9:42 AM UTC
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Former President Donald Trump is known for attacking a show’s ratings and boasting about the ratings of his own televised appearances. This week, Trump commented on the ratings received by this year’s Academy Awards, criticizing the ceremony for leaning into political correctness.
Shortly after the Academy Awards aired, Trump issued a statement commenting on the ratings of the ceremony. The former president criticized the award-giving body for calling the show the Oscars than the Academy Awards. It should be noted that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences refers to the ceremony as the Academy Awards, but AMPAS and ABC described the ceremony as the Oscars.