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.
One Man Bands v. VJs
Henri Cartier Bresson Howard Kurtz reports in The Washington Post today that ABC News is moving toward One-Man Bands. OK. Not exactly a breaking news story, but what we don’t like is the term “One Man Band”. There are...
Read moreTime To Grow Up
Tonight, on NBC News… Yesterday, the LA Times ran a very interesting story that says a lot about the old Mainstream Media. Brian Williams, so the paper reports, reacted to a story in RadarOnline.com that Supreme Court Chief Justice...
Read moreA Plea For Quality
This week on Dancing with The Stars, Hitler and Petain! Jet lag is a bitch. It was 3am and we turned to one another. “Wide awake”? “You bet”. So it was that we came to explore TV offerings at...
Read moreBread & Circus
Battling with The Stars – Rome’s top rated show – ca. 120 AD The Romans called it Panem et Circenses. Bread and Circus. It was the way that they both amused and placated the crowds. As opposed to solid...
Read moreMore From India
Yesterday, I spent the day at the public laundry in Mumbai, Dhobi Ghat. Loving that M9. I was last in India in 1979, and in those days I was a 21-year old with a backpack. I was living in...
Read moreIncredible India
Rooftop pool, Four Seasons, Mumbai We are in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, in India. Population 20 million or so. We are staying at the Four Seasons Hotel, in an all glass, floor to ceiling suite, on the 30th floor. Above...
Read moreAnd Now It’s Official
Do you think they have enough cameras on that boat? In 1988 we introduced the concept of VJ Newsgathering in Norway at TV Bergen. In 1990 we did it with NY1 in New York for Time/Warner. In 1993 we...
Read moreWhy Network News is Dead
And that’s the way it is… The announcement by ABC News last week that they are going to cut 300-400 jobs, a full 20% of their news staff is only confirmation of what we predicted along time ago: That...
Read moreCafe Jew Town
Getting right to the point After 7 days as sea, we made the passage from Mombasa, Kenya to India and this morning, at 7am local time, made landfall in Cochin, India. Needless to say, after 7 days at sea,...
Read moreNewark Star Ledger gets 7 Emmy Nominations!
Newsroom and TV studio… Yesterday, the Newark Star Ledger received an astonishing 7 Emmy Award nominations for its video work. These are local news Emmys, and this is the first time that newspapers have been allowed to participate. The...
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