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.
TV 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...
Read moreThe Case for Public Broadcasting
going… going.. gone… There is a scandal going on in Britain. Nothing like this has been seen since the days of Watergate. A newspaper’s unrelenting investigative reporting has already brought down one newspaper, and it’s just the beginning. Before...
Read moreWelcome to The Edit Suite (in the hall)
Here is what a ‘professional’ TV video editing suite looks like. It costs about $500,000. It’s very complicated – and hard to move around. We are here in Geneva this week at UN headquarters. We’ve trained and equipped...
Read moreChris Christie to NJ: Drop Dead
Closing the door… With a population of more than 8 million people, New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the USA It is also the second wealthiest state in the country, when measured by median income. Thus...
Read moreFinding Bibi – A Young Iranian Filmmaker’s Success
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPX7AfbCVBY&feature=spotlight[/youtube] Bita Haidarian, an award-winning Iranian American filmmaker fresh out of film school, sets off on a journey around the world to answer the big questions – who am I, where do I come from, and where can...
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