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.
NBC Green is Universal is Crap
While NBC preaches Green and urges you to cut back, they burn the midnight oil. I have just finished reading James Lovelock’s The Revenge of Gaia. Lovelock is the British scientist who formulated the Gaia Theory almost 40 years...
Read moreSafran’s Back
Steve Safran, longtime media critic/consultant, and founder of Lostremote.com ( as well as the man who introduced me to blogging) is back with his own blogsite: Mediareinvent. com One of the most original minds in the online media world,...
Read moreAll In The Family
President Obama is a what???? Passover in Miami with my family and my nephew Adam, a freshman at Washington University in St. Louis, is working on a paper for his “Media and Culture” class. The topic is the impact...
Read moreEmpowerment
No drugs in FCP…. When he walked into the training room for the Travel Channel Academy, he was hard to miss. DEA uniform. Gleaming bald head and a South Carolina good old boy accent that made Sheriff Taylor sound...
Read moreAn Open Letter to Les Moonves
Dear Mr. Moonves, With the announcement that Katic Couric will seek an early end to her contract with The CBS Evening News, and the equally dismal ratings for CBS This Morning, perhaps it is time to look for a...
Read moreIrresistable Video
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQ3HgXM8dY&hl=en]] Pulitzer Prize winning author Tony Horwitz sells his books online with video About a million years ago (or just a hair over 5,000 years ago if you live near the Creation Museum in Kentucky), man learned to walk...
Read moreCollateral Damage
During the Vietnam War it was called Collateral Damage. You called in air support and the next thing you knew, they were dropping explosives on your own position Bombing was not a precise science in those days. State of...
Read moreHere’s The Pitch….
OK. Well how about this one….. Pitching a show to a network is a pain… You get the meeting, and when you walk into the room, the VP for Programming sits behind his or her desk, hands clasped behind...
Read moreMicroeconomics
A penny for your thoughts… “Monetization” of the web is the holy grail. Content is migrating to the web far more rapidly than advertising dollars. As well, newspapers, magazines and TV stations are finite, and the percentage of advertising...
Read moreThe Canary in the Coalmine
still alive… but barely There is no question but that we have ‘dumbed down’ TV news. But has TV news ‘dumbed down’ society, or is TV news simply chasing a dumber public? For many years, I taught at New...
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