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.

Who wants to go to South America?

….come on down!!! Last week we completed casting for 5Takes, season four. The photo above is from the New York auditions. Lots of people turned out… and why not? This time we are sending the group to South America.

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Moore’s Law, Iran and The Internet

Long before Al Gore… the Internet was actually invented here…. In 760 BC, the Great Shah of Iran had two passions: warfare and games. Thus it was that his Vizir invented something for him that combined both. He called...

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Think Small

time for a change……. In 1988, I was invited to a party at Barry Rebo’s loft on 25th Street in NY. Rebo was one of the most aggressive early adapters in the production business. He had brought the first...

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Living in Infamy

Nothing to fear….. On the morning after the Virginia Tech shootings, the morning news anchors all rushed down to Blacksburg to do their live remotes. Matt Lauer, from the Today show, turned to the camera and announced that yesterday...

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Burn It To The Ground

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6E4fxHc33M] thanks Jeff Jarvis!

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Out of Focus

Can you have them shake hands instead? Since its inception, making television has been like reading tea leaves. You knew there was an audience out there, but you didn’t really know what they wanted. So you guessed, or dealt...

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Brian Williams, اّبله, المعتوه, اّحمق, المغفل

دجل On Sunday, we did the opening session at RTNDA in Las Vegas. The RTNDA made a conscious decision to embrace the ‘New Journalism” and everyone on stage, in one way or another was a blogger.. or vlogger. The...

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A Guide For the Perplexed

Francisco Aliwalas, videojournalist. There seems to be little question that the ‘VJ’ Revolution is going to happen. It is, of course, more than VJs. It is the entire move to a digtal platform, video online, on phones and all...

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VJ Stations Here to Stay

It’s over! We win! …..and photo by PF Bentley When I started the whole VJ thing some 18 years ago, most people thought I was out of my mind. Technology has caught up with the concept. And now, so...

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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

God’s number one programmer…. One of the reasons television has been so terrible until now is that no one could fail. Failure was too expensive. So we lived in fear. If you are writer, you fail all the time....

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