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.
Joe Little – VJ at KGTV
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckaTQ2RPsmQ[/youtube] A few years ago, we trained a group of journalists at KGTV, a McGraw/Hill station in San Diego to work as VJs. Joe Little is still at it and going strong! The group then
Read moreMusings on The End of Empire
He has seen it all come and go… This morning’s New York Times carried a headline that should have been in much bigger type.It should have read, the end of America as we knew her. All empires come and...
Read more60 Minutes is a Pile of Crap
CBS News ‘correspondent’ Lara Logan posing as a reporter… A few days ago we ran a clip from Newswipe, a BBC parody of ‘news programs’. It was funny. But last night 60 Minutes ran a segment on the war...
Read moreThe Lucky Sperm Club
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Publisher – New York Times; President Lucky Sperm Club, NY Chapter Here’s an interesting statistic: In 1870, 80% of the land in England was owned by 7,000 families. The vast majority of it was in the...
Read moreHow To Make Great TV News
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Here they are, all the secrets so that you, or indeed anyone, can make great TV news stories. Special thanks to Heather Tilert, former producer of Wonderpets for this one.
Read more1984 Again
On the cutting edge of 1984 Exactly 26 years ago this week, Apple released the MacIntosh computer. January 25, 1984 to be exact. The Mac was a radical step forward in the world of computing. It was built on...
Read moreThe BBC’s “Digital Revolution”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeDUGPCDKVA[/youtube] Think ‘documentary filmmaker’ and you conjure up images of the Maysle Brothers working away in thier Soho loft cutting Gimme Shelter at 3 AM. Not that that was such a bad film. It was great. But documentary filmmaking...
Read moreResults from TCA 145
I am in Boston today, but I wanted to post a few of the videos that came out of Travel Channel Academy 145 last week. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVsdRX97Kvg[/youtube] Jalanda came into the class never having touched a camera or an edit....
Read moreChimpcam on BBC
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH4_2IZ3vb8[/youtube] Well, here it is at long last. In the bootcamps we like to say that the technology has now gotten so simple that a monkey could shoot a video. Apparently that is not hyperbole. The BBC is about...
Read moreWe Became What We Beheld
He gets it every time.. pretty much… In 1988, Neil Gabler wrote a seminal book. At least seminal to my mind. It was is called An Empire of Their Own. It’s the story of the founding of the 5...
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