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.

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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Downton Abbey – An American Perspective

  In December we went to England to spend Christmas with the English side of the family. The visit coincided with ITV’s airing of the Downton Abbey Christmas Special. The British side of the family gathered around the ‘telly’....

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And now… The Joe Biden Show!

Like the Romans said: Bread and circus for the masses.  But where’s the bread? Every once in a while you read a book that changes your life. That book, for me, was Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman. Published...

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Time Magazine and Instagram Today / HBO and iPhone Tomorrow?

This was how Time Magazine covered Hurricane Sandy on its cover on its Nov. 1 issue.The photo, which is pretty impressive, came from Instagram. For more details on this, see a very good piece on why this was done,...

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iPhone Millionaire – Live in London

If you haven’t bought the book yet… it’s not too late! This is what people are writing about it on Amazon.com: “I didn’t know anything about how to shoot videos or about the video business before I read this...

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