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.
Listening To The Technology
What is it saying? Andy Grove, former Chairman and co-founder of Intel said, ‘listen to the technology. The technology wil tell you what to do” We are in an industry created by and dictated by technology. As the technology...
Read moreMy First Job in TV
No God but The God I got an email this morning from Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, Professor of Safavid history at The University of Minnesota. Let’s hear it for the web. I have not seen Rosemary Stanfield since 1980, when I...
Read moreMen At Work
Caution Cameragod writes to us from New Zealand noting: Ok so tell two men they each have to race dig a road. One gets a 10 year but still working fine old bulldozer and the other a brand new...
Read moreThe Show Must Go On…. or must it?
It’s news Jim, but not as we know it…. Yesterday, I found myself on a panel at the Edinburgh Television Festival with the Heads of News at The BBC, Channel 5 and ITN, respectively (r to l). The topic...
Read moreThis Common Ground
The Common, Bibury, Gloucestershire, England We are in England. I am speaking on Saturday at the Edinburgh Television Festival. In the meantime, we’re in the Cotswolds, and today in Bibury. Pictured above, the village’s lovely Common. Americans who live...
Read moreTo The Death
We spent yesterday in the painfully beautiful and painfully touristed town of St. Paul de Vence. Nearby is the far more interesting (and far less touristed) town of La Colle-sur-Loup. It is smaller, has missed the tourist crush for...
Read moreA Three Hour Tour
What now little buddy? When I was a kid, there were only a handful of channels. As a result, everyone ended up watching pretty much the same thing. And as a result, if I sit around a dining room...
Read moreCNN Bureaus Go VJ
From The New York Times: NYT-August 12, 2008, 2:37 pm CNN’s Strategy: Bureaus Out, Flexible Journalists In By Brian Stelter CNN announced Tuesday that it would “double its domestic news-gathering presence†by assigning journalists to 10 additional cities across...
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