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.

Why The Travel Channel Academy is Unique

Matt Gould explains what the network wants… If you are production company, you know the hard part is not coming up with ideas. Everyone has great ideas for new TV shows. The hard part is not even producing them....

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"Did Rosenblum Abandon Us?"

Nice guy Kevin Johnson has been running a lovely website for professional cameramen for years called b-roll.net. About 5 years ago, I was invited to participate on the site in a discussion about a rumor that ‘Ivan’ had heard...

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Unstoppable

Get out of the way!!!! In 1821, George Stephenson, the ‘father of railways’ build the world’s first commercially viable steam railway between Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees, a distance of 14 miles. The train was not fast, It took nearly two...

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A Question from the newspaper folks

“That is so true. I just had a reporter say to me: “I used to know what I was doing when I left the newsroom. I had a pen behind my ear and a notebook in my pocket. But...

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Detroit Homicide

USING VJ SKILLS TO PILOT NEW SHOWS NBC’s Jeff Zucker just made the (to my mind) unusual announcement that henceforth NBC would not longer engage in piloting. This strikes me as a bit strange. I guess when you spend...

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Here It Comes

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Travel Channel Student Blog

Here’s what Tanya posted on her blog today:

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Why VJs are Inevitable

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TRAVEL CHANNEL ACADEMY GRADS SPEAK

[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZgJmRSbNE&rel=1]] The grads of the most recent NY Travel Channel Academy speak for themselves!

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The Insanity Is Still Alive

I am deeply disturbed by an emailed blog I received this evening. It comes from something called “The Synagogue of Satan“, and it is a long, deep and deeply disturbed blog about how Jews both control the media and...

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