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 Coming Disaster
…where to now?… On May 31, 1911, the Titanic left the Belfast shipyards with state- of -the-art technology.
Read moreThe Source
every once in a while something hits you that changes your life…. I was 12 years old when I first read The Source by James Michener.
Read moreCitizeNews
In 2005, I was invited to speak at the Eurasian Median Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan. I only went for two reasons: First, I wanted to see Almaty. Second, I wanted to meet one of the other speakers –Oh Yeon...
Read moreYoutube -1320 AD
“see what else is on…” For most of our existence, we have lived in a world without images. We are today so inundated by them, from TV to movies to magazines to billboards that we forget that all this...
Read moreKRON – Two Years Later
works like a newspaper… but in video…. Two years ago this week we started the conversion of KRON4 in San Francisco to the VJ model.
Read moreDisposable Content
the burning of the Great Library at Alexandria… the MGM version… This morning we had a meeting with the head of one of the largest newspaper groups in the world, based in the UK. We were early…(which I think...
Read moreFailure at Channel One
Time for a change… I am in London this week, meeting with a number of major newspaper groups who are moving to video online. Once a newspaper goes online, and once online goes to video, it is only a...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
success if only for those who are willing to take risks…. Television is expensive to make. Books are cheap.
Read moreTJ Academy – 2 July sessions – sign up now!
Travel Channel President & GM Pat Younge meets with Academy participants. If you want to break into the TV business, you can’t beat this kind of access…. We are taking enrollment for the Travel Channel Academy. We are running...
Read moreWikimedia???
…”and when we come back, sports and weather…” In 1979, Iranian militants took the US Embassy hostage. They would hold it for 444 days.
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