A Ray of Sunbeam in the UK
1956 Sunbeam Alpine Yesterday was another rainy day in England. My 13-year old niece was competing in some kind of horse competition, which required that we all stand outside in the pouring rain and watch all day long. The...
Read moreCBS News Leaps Headlong into 1994!!!
       OK. Let’s not go TOO fast here…. CBS News announced today with great excitement that they had hired a real, live ‘VIDEOJOURNALIST’ to report for them!!!! On TV no less. The network...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiGC–5Ax3w&feature=channel_page[/youtube] Al Vazquez, one of our students at the Travel Channel Academy produced this as his ‘final piece’. We screened it this evening, the fourth day of the 4-day course. As Al wrote on his evaluation form after the...
Read moreEvolution and Facebook
You forgot to plug me in Dave…. Dave…. Computers think really fast. And people think really fast. Computers convey information really fast. People, on the other hand, take a long time to explain something. So, it may be, that...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy @ Times Square
Travel Channel Academy HQ just up the street at 41st between 7th and 8th This week, we are once again running the Travel Channel Academy in New York. For more than 2 years, we have been partnering with The...
Read moreDid The Media Lose Vietnam?
Lt. General Donald E. Rosenblum at work…. Last week, at the height of the Cronkite memorabilia-fest, I watched, along with everyone else, as TV news ran the famous ‘we can no longer win the war in Vietnam’ clip over...
Read moreLessons from the NYVS
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vONorpVbLYo[/youtube] Francisco gives a lesson on how to make a Music Video On September 1, we are going to launch NY Video School, an online training academy for those who want to learn how to make a wide range...
Read moreChris Brown, Rhianna….and Richard Nixon
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4SD6oBvbKY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjonbernstein.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F21%2Fwhat-chris-browns-youtube-apology-tells-us-about-new-media%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] who needs TV? When 19 year old R&B singer Chris Brown was accused of beating his girlfriend Rhianna, he didn’t go on 60-Minutes looking for contrition. Bill Clinton and Hillary might have taken a chance with Mike Wallace...
Read moreShould Journalism Die?
And that’s the way it is… or at least as far as I know, that’s the way it is…. When I was a student at The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University (’83), we used manual typewriters. We...
Read moreIf We Landed a Man on the Moon Today….
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dClpox7qinI[/youtube] and a tip o’ the hat to Steve Safran for finding this one
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