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.
Travel Channel Academy at Sea
There’s a Great White around here somewhere… I am filing this from the Crystal Serenity, a top of the line luxury cruise ship, and we’re now just rounding the Cape of Good Hope off South Africa on our way...
Read moreWhen Toasters Attack
It’s Toaster Week on Discovery Channel Yesterday we went to the aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa. The aquarium is great, lots of interesting stuff, but without a doubt, the number one draw is the Shark Tank. It is...
Read moreToo Much of a Good Thing
The Craigslist of its day…. On December 27, 1530, Francisco Pizarro set out with 27 horses and 180 men for South America. Two years later, he conquered the 800 year old Inca Empire, population 12 million or so. A...
Read moreGreetings From South Africa
Cape Town – so far, so good… Late last night, after an almost endless flight, we arrived in Cape Town, South Africa. We’re here to do a Videojournalism seminar with the Media Academy here . We met them a...
Read moreJoe 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...
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