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 Power of Technology
Tony Horwitz I bought Tony Horwitz’s new book, A Voyage Long and Strange just prior to getting on a plane at Santa Barbara airport. By the time I landed in Newark, I had finished the book. It is one...
Read moreDog & The Drug Hunter
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtvMtMFVuU&hl=en] The Travel Channel Academy gives everyone a great opportunity to take a crack at the TV world. One of our recent grads has really taken his TCA experience to heart. A few posts ago, I wrote about Jay...
Read moreWe Open in Santa Barbara
Finally! Yesterday, we added Santa Barbara to our locations for the Travel Channel Academy. And what a nice place it is! We are housed at the Brooks Institute for photography, right in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, and...
Read moreRequiem for a Network
Barbarians at the Gate: Odoacer takes the number one slot, prime time and otherwise 1976 marked the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the fall of the Roman Empire. It passed pretty much unnoticed. 1976 had been the 200th anniversary of...
Read moreAre Newspapers Poised to Replace Local TV Stations?
Please Stand By…… Its called ‘leapfrog technology’. Its the ability to bypass an old infrastructure completely and go immediately to what the newest technologies can create. Vietnam’s adaptation of mobile phone technology is an example of leapfrog. Rather than...
Read moreThe NY Times with Katie Couric?
A little to the left….. a little to the right…. OK… wait…. Technologies have the ability to turn the world upside down without our even noticing. Not too many years ago, TV signals came into your house through the...
Read moreDalton Sports Radio
Don’t touch that dial…..dial? What’s a dial? When I was a kid, I used to lay in bed at night, in the dark, and listen to WOR radio, 720 AM. Every night, at 10pm, Jean Shepherd ran a show....
Read moreTo Be or Not To Be
This morning, I sat down to write a blog entry that was going to be called “The World Turned Upside Down”. It was going to start with a quote from David Halberstam’s book The Powers That Be. I remembered...
Read moreDo The Right Thing
Don’t point that cell phone at me! The New York Times is carrying a story today that Nokia and filmmaker Spike Lee have signed a deal to create content out of ‘User Generated Content” made on Nokia phones. Nokia...
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