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.

1984

Orwellian Sixty years ago this week, on June 8, 1949, Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s novel was published. Today, it is still going strong and has sold millions of copies. More than that, it has left an indellible impact on...

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iPhone Future

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCo6-KhZT4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2F2009%2F06%2F14%2Fiphone-os-macbook-pro-24-multitouch-screen%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Sweden on the cutting edge again… The Swedish site Dremfeld.se has posted a video pushing an iPhone through a Mac with a touchscreen. The idea is intriguing and it opens a door to what the next generation of...

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Bigger News Than 9/11

Stop the presses!!! Last night I felt bad for The New York Times. We watched The Daily Show, and in one taped segement, ‘correspondent’ Jason Jones went to visit The New York Times, and proceeded to make snarky comments...

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And Here’s Why PBS is Toast

Neil Shapiro, President WNET…. I have a soft spot in my heart for WNET/13, the PBS station in NY (though licensed in Newark, NJ technically). I had my first TV job at WNET and they allowed me to move...

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What Is News Worth?

Single white female seeks…. Following the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour in 1537, King Henry VIII of England was convinced to marry Anne of Cleves (pictured above), to cement an alliance with the newly Protestant German state....

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Now Here’s a TV Show

Crocodile bite… Every once in a while an honest-to-God TV show comes up and just bites you in the ass… That was how I felt yesterday when Dr. Adam Kushner dropped by the house for cup of coffee. He...

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What is Journalism?

This just in…. In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt. Feeling the pressure of rising unemployment in France, and seeing the power that British colonies had given England, Napoleon set forth with his fleet, first picking off the riches of Malta...

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Is Journalism Worth Anything?

All the news… In 1988 when I quit my job at CBS News and moved into Gaza with a small video camera, the very idea of doing that was rare. There wasn’t a lot of in-depth coverage coming out...

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The Gaza Flipcam Project

Please read the enclosed. If you have any ideas or would like to become involved, please get in touch. thanks info@rosenblumtv.com The Gaza Flipcam Project Concept:  New technologies create the opportunity to create a new kind of journalism. The...

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Video Free Europe

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AVNCiAbd14[/youtube] Driving democracy through video…. A few months ago, we were in Prague, where we ran a pilot bootcamp for Radio Free Europe. When I was young, I remember TV ads for Radio Free Europe. Eastern Europe was then...

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