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.
Any Idiot Can Have a Reality Show
Adventures in Sunderland So now it turns out that Laurence and Marianne Sunderland had cut a deal with Magnetic Entertainment in Los Angeles to produce a ‘reality show’ based on the Sunderland family and their compulsive desire to sail...
Read morePharmalot – A Model for the Future?
How a newspaper blog became profitable Ed Silverman (whose head is pictured above) was a graduate of NYU’s journalism school and then went to work for the Newark Star Ledger covering the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceuticals are a big business...
Read moreBread and Circus
\ A football match is not going to solve their problems… or change their lives… Yesterday was the England/USA game at the World Cup in South Africa, so naturally we were all tuned in. We hung the England flag...
Read moreBy What Right?
Jon Gosselin, reality TV star for 15 minutes a few years ago.. I think.. maybe… As I noted yesterday, there are now 5.8 billion video cameras in circulation on a planet with a population of 6.8 billion people. This...
Read moreJournalists as Entrepreneurs….or not….
it’s over… I like Alan Mutter and I always read his blog, Reflections of a Newsousaur. So yesterday, when my old J-School classmate and current professor at Stony Brook, Barbara Selvin emailed me and asked what I thought of...
Read moreThe Future is Mobile
The future in the palm of your hand Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel used to say “listen to the technology. The technology will tell you what to do”. Today, the technology to listen to is mobile. As of...
Read moreThe Importance of Narrative
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNa1xQE7ccc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Eva Solberger, Lost in Vermont Yesterday I got a posting on my Newspapervideo newsgroup on Yahoo (NewspaperVideo@yahoogroups.com) from Eva Solberger, a very talented VJ who works for Seven Days in Vermont. She posted the video above and asked...
Read morePicasso and Video
Picasso’s The Dream: It features his mistress Marie-Therese Walter and is estimated to be worth £70m This afternoon we went to see the Picasso exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show admittedly had problems from a lack...
Read moreWhat Hath God Wrought
It was the Internet of its day…. On May 23, 1843, Samuel FB Morse flashed the message “what hath God wrought” along a wire strung from the US Supreme Court Chambers in Washington DC to the Mount Clare railway...
Read moreBP Disaster – Has TV Wrecked Our Brains?
If this doesn’t work, we’re going to fire up the Bat Signal…. Every civilization becomes the product of it’s central event. For the ancient Greeks, it was the Agora, the marketplace, the Acropolis. A place of constant public discourse....
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