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.

Local TV News Teams Rush To Japan – Jackals & Vultures

NJ Burkett WABC News Live From Japan – and so what? What has happened in Japan, and what is continuing to happen is a disaster of almost unimaginable proportions. And it’s not like there has been any shortage of...

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Gary Younge, The Guardian, The Tea Party & the best pro bootcamp

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL77KyhXdo[/youtube] Using video to make America more comprehensible to Europeans Gary Younge is the US correspondent for The Guardian, a UK newspaper and probably one of the best newspapers in the world. Younge spends most of his time on...

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The Last Lions – Good … and Bad

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoAcNdeEf_Y[/youtube] Born Free it is not… OK There is an ‘arts’ movie theater around the corner from us called The Paris. It has been there forever and it I don’t know how they make a living.  It’s across the...

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Don’t Look At The Camera: Who came up with that stupid idea?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPwR00HXM0[/youtube] Robert McNamara tells all… The clip above is from The Fog of War, a documentary film by Errol Morris. We talked a bit about Morris yesterday, and we’ll talk  about him more later, but one of Morris’ great...

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IBM’s 100th Anniversary Film by Errol Morris & Philip Glass

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrhDaAmn5Uw[/youtube] Errol Morris is one of the greatest documentary filmmakers in the world today. (At least that’s my opinion).  His films, such as The Fog of War or Fast, Cheap & Out of Control are just spectacular.  His classic,...

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The Black Death & The Video Revolution – what does it mean for you?

Don’t move the camera… In 1347, The Black Death, as it was called then, or the bubonic plague, swept across Europe with a vengence. Within a few months, more than one third of the population was dead.  In some towns...

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Fashion and Video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5NgG5koPZU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] A style video with style I caught this video a few days ago, but watching it has opened up a whole raft of ideas and insights. First, the video itself. It’s produced (and I assume that means shot,...

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“Credibility” in News

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLhxBnYNvY[/youtube] Do you like this? Here’s a Reality show for you… The video you see above was shot by a member of Surgeons Over Seas, an excellent group of highly dedicated surgeons who travel the world teaching locals basic...

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Warning: This Video May Cause Blindness – or Erections Lasting Up to 8 Hours

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25fGWKZFLIY&feature=related[/youtube] yeah…sign me up for that stuff right away…. When most people go to edit a video, they start by writing a script, then laying in all the audio first and then covering it with video. This kind of...

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Charlie Sheen!!!

Video literacy? really? OK I don’t have any information here about Charlie Sheen. If you want to read about Charlie Sheen, you can link here: IS CHARLIE SHEEN’S PLAYING HARDBALL WITH CBS PAYING OFF? Hey! Look! I’m an aggregator!  I’m a curator of news! Wow That was...

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