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.

What Has Oprah Got That You Don’t?

Consider Oprah. According to Forbes, she is worth $2.8 billion. That’s a lot of net worth. And how did she get there? She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi to an unmarried teenage mother. Her early life was one of...

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To The Moon, Alice!

Bas Landsdorp is a Dutch engineer and entrepreur with a dream. His dream is to build a colony on Mars. NASA also has this dream.  Their problem is how to pay for it. Mr. Lansdorp thinks he has come up...

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Guardian Media Academy – London

We’re here at The Guardian Media Academy in the heart of London (in the heart of the HQ of The Guardian newspaper). Yesterday, our participants (about 20 in all), and from all over Europe – Spain, England, Italy, Finland… and even...

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Icing The Networks

It’s a cold future for conventional networks  If you were born at the turn of the last Century (19th), and you were looking for a place to invest your money, ice looked like a pretty good bet. The ice...

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Until The End of TIME

Every once in a while you come across a book that changes your life. When I was in my early 20’s and lost, I came across In Search Of History, by Theodore White. It set the path for the rest...

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Turn 30 Rock into Condos? Why Not?

When I look out my living room window, this is what I see. The GE Building. Which used to be the NBC Building Which used to be the RCA Building Maybe soon it will be the Comcast Building. It’s...

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And Now… Junk News

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson There was a time when newspapers were...

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Is This Really Worth $190 A Month?

I am not making this up. We are spending about half our time now in Nashville. We have a condo. The condo has DirecTV Cable.. satellite.  Who can tell?  It’s all the same. (Yeah, I have seen the ads)....

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Is Educational Television an Oxymoron?

Vietnam Vietnam: A Television History Vietnam: A Television History Something has got to give in the world of education. Tuition at many private universities now exceeds $50,000 a year.  That’s $200,000 for a BA. Is it worth it? A...

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Desperate Days @Facebook

Do I have any interest in any of this?  Nope…. This week Facebook annnounced that it was going to start changing up to $100 per message for people who want to email someone who is not one of their...

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