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.
The Brooklyn Bridge and The Web
A bridge to the future… I have just finished reading The Great Bridge by David McCullough. It’s the story of the design and construction of The Brooklyn Bridge. The Bridge, designed buy John Roebling and built by his son...
Read moreA Voice From The Past
 In Europe until the 5th of September, but I am still getting contacts from home. Particularly nice are emails from old friends I have not seen in a long time. It’s funny how just a few lines can...
Read moreGeology, Evolution and Santorini
A room with a view… I am spending this week in Oia in Santorini, with a lovely view of the caldera. Santorini is a Greek Island, but one with a unique history. It was once the top of a...
Read moreA Walk on the Acropolis
Still standing after all these years…. Arriving from rainy England, Athens was a pleasure. Sunny and mid 80s. I have not been in Athens in 20 years, and the city has improved enormously, no doubt due to the infusion...
Read moreA 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...
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