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 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...
Read moreOur 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....
Read moreWhat’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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreIt’s Never Too Late
We will never surrender… On December 12th, I was listening to Scott Simon on NPR interviewing author Paul Johnson about his new biography of Winston Churchill. I immediately went to Amazon.com and ordered the book. Â A few days later...
Read moreShould News Take Place in the Public Place?
Everyone has a story to tell… The Knight Foundation has informed me that I have made it to the second round for the Knight News Challenge. My proposal is to hand out 1,000 flipcams in Newark, NJ and put...
Read moreRule Britannia
OK, now everyone… I am in England this week, and yesterday we had lunch with my in-laws at The ‘Club’. The Club used to demand that all men wear jackets and ties, and while that rule apparently has been...
Read morePeople Wall
3 hours on line for this I just received word from the Knight Foundation that my project, 1,000 Flipcams in Newark has made it to the final round for consideration. My idea is to give 1,000 random people who...
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