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.
Art & Artifice in Newspapers and TV News
Admiral Richard Byrd… come on now.. try and look cold… A fascinating piece in the NY Times today revealed that the paper ran a photo studio in it’s building on West 43rd Street where the famous and near famous...
Read moreWhat Pornography Tells Us About The Future of Television
Coming to Bravo? Some years ago my friend Russ Kagan asked if I would be willing to meet with Nick Guccione, Bob’ Guccione’s son. Bob Guccione, for those who are too young, was the founder of Penthouse Magazine, a...
Read moreAmusing Ourselves To Death
New Members of Congress Today, some 1500 years after the Fall of the Roman Empire, historians still search for the reasons for the collapse of the greatest and most durable Empire the world has ever known. And one that...
Read moreChris Anderson from TED says ‘Video Is The Future’
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Zo53M0lcY[/youtube] TED founder Chris Anderson says that Video is going to be the driver of change globally. 90% of what will be on the web will be in video. Video is the key to the next step in intellectual...
Read moreThe Power of Being Made Uncomfortable
You a college boy? Last night we went to a screening of the documentary “Mr. Gaudino”. It was a profile of Prof. Robert Gaudino, who was one of my teachers and the man who changed my life. About 150...
Read moreThis Is How Empires End
Meghan McCain.. hard at work! OK I am not a Republican. And frankly, these days I am not such a Democrat either. So this is written without political animus. Merely observational. This morning, while I was working out on...
Read moreArthur Sulberger Say NYT Will End Print…. What Now?
how long? Yesterday, in London at the WAN-IFRA conference, New York Times Chairman and CEO Arthur Sulzberger Jr. announced that “We will stop printing The New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD.” This is, of course, both...
Read moreHow ABC News Could Save Itself… and Journalism
David Westin, former President ABC News In 1989, at the height of the AIDS crisis, I went off to Uganda with a video camera in search of the ‘Index Case’ – the source of the worldwide AIDS pandemic. I...
Read moreWhen Still Photographers Go To Video
Minimata, Japan, by W. Eugene Smith Long before I started shooting video I shot stills. I had picked up the skills studying photographer at Williams College, in Williamstown, Mass., under the great Howie Levitz. When I graduated from Williams,...
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