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 Hamas Show

The juxtaposition of two seemingly very disparate articles in the newspaper this morning provide a window into where the whole TV news business is headed.

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Obsolesence

Hello? When I was 5 years old we had a phone like the one pictured above. Like everyone else, we didn’t own it, we leased it from Bell Telephone. By the time I left home at 18 to go to college, it...

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Outside The Box

Henri IV, King of France was one of the seminal figures in French history. Though King of France and a very accomplished and powerful and successful ruler, Henri was functionally illiterate.

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A Touch of Class

Reunion 2008 I graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. That is a long time ago. So  long ago, that we recently celebrated our 25th anniversary. Hard to believe. We had a party (above) at...

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My Own TV Show

David Besemer was a student at the Travel Channel Academy in Santa Barbara last year. He produced one of the better videos, a profile of a small marina ferry and its captain. I had no idea when he took the course...

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By What Right

New technologies not only obviate old jobs and careers, they also challenge and often undermine old laws. Like copyright.

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Survivor

My wife's grandfather was a wheelright in Cambridge, England. In those days wheelright was an honorable (or as they might say, honourable) profession.

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When We Come Back….

Now this... Usually, when we teach a class at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism you get a fairly wide range of students. Yesterday, however, we got two students who were also on the faculty.

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The G Spot

We just got off the phone with the Minister for Information for a small but never-the-less important country. We will be going there in a few weeks to start a project to make the country 'video active'.

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Good Enough

I spent most of the day trying to work on my book, but its hard to maintain focus and my mind drifted. As the aphorism goes, "idle hands are the devil's workshop".

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