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.
Film made for $0 on Canon 5D earns $200,000 on iTunes
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJa1pw-Fm1w[/youtube] reminds me of A Man and a Woman In 1969, French director Claude Lelouche shot and edited the outstanding French film, A Man and a Woman. If you havent’ seen it, go. Lelouche had a background in commercial...
Read moreHow The Travel Channel Could Save Itself
That’s gratitude for you… There is an old expression that says ‘never bite the hand that feeds you’. There is also an old expression that says, ‘when your friend is drowing, throw them a life preserver’. I am torn...
Read moreBig Cameras v. Small Cameras
Call the chiropractor!! My very first job in TV news was at WCBS, the CBS local station in New York. I was a researcher and my boss was a guy named Tom Petner. During my first month at work...
Read moreThe Power of the Individual
Not a team player There was an interesting article in The Harvard Business Review that caught my eye this week: “Why A Great Individual Is Better Than A Good Team” by Jeff Stibel. Stibel is the Chairman and CEO of...
Read moreTV is DEAD
TV is over… I am watching the riveting British Parliamentary hearings live as they take Rupert Murdoch apart. Fascinating TV. However, I am not watching it on TV. I can’t. No US TV cable channel is carrying it. Not...
Read moreWho Needs National Geographic TV Anyway?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBYPlcSD490&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] stick with it… When Michael Fishbach set out for his day of boating around the beautiful waters of the Sea of Cortez, he probably didn’t think that it would be the day he and his friends would become...
Read moreFox & Friends vs. The First Amendment
Just the beginning We’ve been at The Guardian, a newspaper most Americans probably have not heard of, but a newspaper which is now on the cutting edge of the Rupert Murdoch scandal. If you are a Fox News viewer,...
Read moreBBC3 – Roger and Rwanda – 10 Years After
BBC iPlayer does not embed -sorry Last night BBC3 ran Roger: Genocide Baby at 9PM. It was pretty good. It must have cost them a fair amount to make. I would embed it here, but they don’t allow that,...
Read moreHenry VIII, Hans Holbein, Facebook and Gilligan
“in a relationship” The painting above is of Anne of Cleves, done by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1539. Holbein had been dispatched to Germany by Henry VIII, who was contemplating marrying Anne, sight unseen. Henry sent Holbein to...
Read moreVideo Training in London
This week in London Last week, as you know, we were in Geneva training the UNHRC to shoot and edit their own video. This week, we’re in London running the Guardian Media Academy, a partnership with The Guardian, the...
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