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.
National Security in 1775
Wanted….. As it turns out, (thanks to The Guardian), the NSA and the US Government have been mining our online data and phone calls to ‘protect’ us from whatever they decide at the moment is a threat. It...
Read moreWith Hillary on Twitter, Can The End Be Far Away?
Maureen Dowd in The New York Times reported today that Hillary Clinton has started tweeting. If anything screams twitter is no longer hip, this is it. Time to move on and search for the ‘next big thing’. In New York,...
Read moreGet Certified As A Professional VJ in London This Summer!
VJ Bootcamp in Nairobi with the UN Take the next step. Learn to be a professional video journalist this summer in London, England. Our partnership with The Guardian, one of the most highly repected newspapers in the world is starting...
Read moreThat’s Entertainment… or news? Or Both.
Coming soon to a theater new year… and a museum, apparently… In 1985, Neil Postman wrote what would become the epitaph for our age: Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it he postulated that as television and video became more...
Read moreIs Journalism Dead?
Last week, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann announced that she would not be running for another term in Congress. This is fine (really), but instead of holding a press conference, she released a video explaining her rationalization for the move. The...
Read moreChicago Sun-Times Fires Photogs, Trains Staff on iPhone
Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times announced that they were firing their entire photography staff. Today, they announced that they would start training their reporters to take their own photos using an iPhone. Media writer Robert Feder surfaced this on...
Read moreWhat Future For Photography?
We recently went to the Bill Brandt show at the Museum of Modern Art. Brandt is a very famous photographer, but in all honesty, when I saw most of his work my reaction was ‘what’s the big deal?’...
Read moreAttack of the Librarians
One way… Last week I wrote a blog about the future of physical libraries in an online and digital world. Can they survive? Is there a place for them? I also published it in The Huffington Post. I have...
Read moreBreaking Bad Vs. The Great Gatsby
We went to see The Great Gatsby last night. Hated it. Hated… hated… hated… OK. Hated. Talking about it to Lisa over dinner after the movie (she rather liked it, I think), she asked why I hated...
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