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.

The World’s Greatest Filmmaking Course

Getting the wide shot… Next month we will depart with around 40 participants on what I think will be the world’s greatest filmmaking and video course ever. Or at least that is how I see it. We’re running our...

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My Own Gosford Park

The remnants of Empire… Fire Sale! We are looking to buy a country home. Originally, we were looking in the Hamptons, on Long Island, along with everyone else from Manhattan. But of late we have started looking in the...

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What is a Citizen Journalist?

Running the BBC courses on the beach at Newcastle-on-Tyne Last month, Dirck Halstead ran a provocative piece in his Digitaljouranlist.org asking whether we should abolish the term ‘Citizen Journalist’. This fired off the predictable howl-around, including a thread in...

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Is Reality TV the Solution to Terrorism?

Every media outlet in the world… On October 4, 2003, Hanadi Jaradat, a 29-year old female lawyer, strapped explosives onto herself, walked into Maxim Restaurant in Haifa, Israel and blew herself up. Jaradat was not out to attack the...

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Killer Ap

The Steve Jobs of his day… In 1889, The British Army invaded Matebeleland, what we would today call Zimbabwe. The pretext for the invasion was in some ways immaterial. The driver was the belief that there were vast gold...

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Social Television?

Where social networks meet television Yesterday, The Guardian ran one of their ‘predictions’ for 2010 in their Media Section. I It predicted the rise of something they called Social Television. Social Television  is the inevitable marriage of watching TV...

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The World Before Google

Congratulations! You are our one billionth visitor… Like millions of others before us for the past 4,000 years or so, we made the trip to the Great Pyramids at Giza. As anyone who has been there can attest, at...

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Our Day with the Palestinian Authority

Lisa and I meet with Abu Walid, head of the Palestinian Authority, Jericho No trip to Israel is complete without a visit with the Palestinian Authority. Of course, not many tourists to Israel would agree, which is really tragic....

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What’s in a Picture?

Smile We are in Jerusalem this week, and like all good tourists to Jerusalem we did the ‘religious’ sites today. So at 10am it was The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (above). At noon it was The Wailing Wall...

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The Tudors Stink

Where did they do their dry cleaning? Yesterday, killing time in England before heading to Israel, I caught the old Richard Burton film Anne of a Thousand Days, the Anne Boelyn story. Personally, I thought that Showtime did a...

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