Michael on Media
Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.
He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.
America on Display
No place like home Yesterday, being Columbus Day, we had a few hours of downtime, and being in Washington DC, we thought we would go over to the Corcoran, where they were having a photo exhibition on the impact...
Read moreNY Video School
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6938784[/vimeo] Two years in the making, New York Video School is entering its final beta phase!
Read moreMurdoch vs. Galileo
And that’s the way it is….. On August 25, 1609, four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope to Venetian lawmakers.  A few months later he would publish Siderius Nuncias, his support for the Copernican heliocentric theory –...
Read more1 Billion Videos Viewed in One Day
What’s on? We are rapidly becoming Video Nation, or rather, video world. A place in which all ideas (and everything else) are communicated in video. Yesterday, Youtube passed an astonishing statistic – 1 Billion videos viewed in one day....
Read moreHow Charlie Rose Destroyed TV
We’ll be back… maybe… Don’t get me wrong, I like Charlie Rose. I think he does a good job and puts on a good show. He even had me as a guest once, so how can I say anything...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
Today we started our 4-day intensive Travel Channel Academy bootcamp here at Travel Channel HQ in DC. Network President Pat Younge addressed the group and explained that it was the goal of the network to create an army of...
Read moreKeep Your Eye On The Ball
this is what you are looking for…. I just read TV’s obituary in the newspaper this morning, courtesy of Edith Champagne in London. The newspaper happens to be The Guardian, but the obit was very clear. UKRAINE V. ENGLAND...
Read moreNewspapers: gone. Next: TV Networks.
with fine cabinetry design… End round one. The newspaper business is finished. Now, comes round two. Â TV Networks. If they don’t make some really major changes really fast they are going to end up just like their old...
Read moreJournalists….. arise! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chains
I’m currently working on a piece about homeless people in San Francisco Why are we such wimps? Journalism is in utter collapse and we wander around asking whether perhaps the answer is not to turn the New York Times...
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