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.
I Stand Corrected
W. Eugene Smith is one of my heroes. He is one of Jim Hughes’ passions. Hughes is the author of W.Eugene Smith, Shadow and Substance. He sent me the following email, in response to my analogies between Leicas and...
Read moreKRON goes on the Block
Young Broadcasting announced today that is putting KRON, its San Francisco station up for sale. KRON was one of three stations we took into the full-blown VJ model in 2004/5. The people at KRON undertook an enormous amount of...
Read moreWhat Local News Can Learn from Obama
He rates well in a good demo… Presidential primaries are a lot like television shows. You roll out your pilots, and the ones that rate get commissioned. The ones that don’t rate die. The Chris Dodd Show, for example,...
Read moreLeaving Your Mark
 Like all tourists since Genghis Khan, we also made the trip to the Great Wall of China. First, despite its being one of the all-time greatest ‘tourist attractions’ in the world, it is without a doubt worth the...
Read moreIt’s The Community, Stupid!
 The old broadcasting model does not really cut it anymore In two weeks we’re starting our 2008 round of Travel Channel Academy sessions. We’re going to train and empower more than 1,ooo people with cameras and laptops and...
Read moreHOW MORGAN FREEMAN MADE BARAK OBAMA POSSIBLE
A few years ago, I read a fascinating book by Neil Gabler entitled “An Empire of Their Own, How The Jews Invented Hollywood” The Hollywood Studios were founded by 7 Jews, all of whom ironically came from a 50...
Read moreTHE CUL-DE-SAC OF CULTURE
Although we like to credit Gutenberg with the printing press, the concept of movable type actually originated here, in China. During the Ch’ing-li period (1041-1048), an alchemist named Pi Sheng conceived of the notion of movable carved blocks for...
Read more"WHAT’S YOUR TRIP?" IS BUYING
on our mac-inspired set As the new year starts, we are kicking off another round of “What’s Your Trip?” with Andrew Zimmern for The Travel Channel. The show is a platform for independent VJs and would be Travel Journalists,...
Read moreNOTHING HAS CHANGED
Despite the tall glass towers and Armani Casa shops that line the main streets of Shanghai, there is a great deal of Communist China that has remained untouched. The first thing that remains untouched, apparently, is the censorship. While...
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