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.
Fox News Lied — No One Cares
At the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute, Fox News settled its lawsuit with Dominion for a staggering $787.5 million. Rupert Murdoch had no choice but to settle, the evidence against Fox was overwhelming. Many of my liberal friends were...
Read moreThe Netflix Curse – and the cure
In the beginning, there was broadcast. There were only three networks — NBC, CBS and ABC. If you wanted to watch TV, that was the extent of your choices. There was, of course, PBS, but no one went there....
Read moreHe Who Controls The News Controls The Future
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell wrote, “he who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” He might have added, he who controls the news, controls the present. In Russia, Vladimir Putin controls...
Read moreDonald Trump is Going to be Elected in 2024
photo courtesy Gage Skidmore In August, 2016, I wrote an article for The Huffington Post entitled Donald Trump Is Going To Be Elected. As soon as I saw Trump, I knew he was going to be elected because...
Read moreWhy Most Documentaries Are Pretty Unwatchable
Ayn Rand – image courtesy Wiki Commons OK, let’s be honest. Most documentaries, and in fact, most non-fiction factual content (and here I am excluding reality TV shows) are pretty unwatchable. Yes, the content is both intelligent and ‘important’,...
Read moreThe Story of Harlem Live
Harlem, 1943 courtesy Wikicommons In the 1990’s, I was part of a very interesting experiment in local news called Harlem Live. The idea was rather simple. We gave video cameras to teenagers who lived in Harlem. We taught them...
Read moreIf I Say Somalia… Do You Think Pirates?
As my friend, Boyah Farrah, explained to me, “Somalia has it rough.” Boyah is the author of the new and quite popular book, America Made Me A Black Man (Simon & Schuster 2022). The reason I know Boyah is...
Read moreA Very Different Way to Shoot Video with a Phone
The Family of Man exhibition at The MoMA – 1955 The arrival of the iPhone as a video camera has caused a great deal of discussion and no small amount of dissent amongst videographers, particularly in the news business. News...
Read moreTo The Moon…
Flying Ace Roland Garros Crosses The Mediterranean in only 8 hours! Last week, NASA finally launched its Artemis rocket headed for the moon. This mission was unmanned, but if all goes according to plan, NASA expects to put...
Read moreWhen Nazis Marched in Skokie
Photo courtesy Kslewellen via Wiki Commons I have recently begun to pay attention to Twitter. For years, I ignored it, putting most of my efforts into Facebook, but Alicia Brooks, my literary agent strongly suggested that I become a...
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