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.
Benjamin Franklin – Web Videographer
Franklin was born into a relatively poor family of 17 children. His father was a soap maker, when soap was made from discarded animal fat. Not a noble or well paid profession. But Franklin quickly embraced the...
Read moreBack to DC
We left Nevis with plenty of time. You have to take a boat from Nevis to St. Kitts, which is where the airport is. The country is made up of two islands, Nevis and St. Kitts. As I say,...
Read moreA Most Demanding Job!
We are currently in St. Kitts and Nevis, where we have been hired as media consultants to the government.
Read moreBack To You, Joe
Well, naturally, the day after I post on TVspy that one of the prime differentiators between VJ and OMB is that we don’t do stand-ups, KGTV/10 VJ Joe Little sends me a link to a Youtube posting that proves...
Read moreThe Hamas Show
The juxtaposition of two seemingly very disparate articles in the newspaper this morning provide a window into where the whole TV news business is headed.
Read moreObsolesence
Hello? When I was 5 years old we had a phone like the one pictured above. Like everyone else, we didn’t own it, we leased it from Bell Telephone. By the time I left home at 18 to go to college, it...
Read moreOutside The Box
Henri IV, King of France was one of the seminal figures in French history. Though King of France and a very accomplished and powerful and successful ruler, Henri was functionally illiterate.
Read moreA Touch of Class
Reunion 2008 I graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. That is a long time ago. So long ago, that we recently celebrated our 25th anniversary. Hard to believe. We had a party (above) at...
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