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.
South Africa Heads Toward Zimbabweland
All hail the Glorious Leader! How soon things change. The World Cup from South Africa was supposed to consecrate a new era for South Africa in the world. Modern. Sophisticated. Advanced. Now, President Zuma has made a clear demonstration...
Read moreElisabeth Kubler-Ross and the Newsroom
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross We spent the past few months, off and on, having a series of protracted meetings, demonstrations and conversations with a major US network news organization. Which one does not matter, because in truth, they’re all in about...
Read moreHow Do You Know We’re Living In The Roman Empire?
The idiot in chief… One of the most influential books I ever read was Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. Published in 1984, it was seminal in shaping my thinking about the impact of television on our culture....
Read moreThe McCormick Reaper and The Death of Journalism
When the term Broadcasting meant something else entirely Even though I am sitting on an ‘out island’ in the Bahamas this August, it does not mean I am not working! This morning, I spent an hour on the phone...
Read moreThe Library of Youtube
Yeah…lemme see American Idol from last week…. In 1988 I left my job as a producer at CBS News to go to Gaza with a small video camera and start shooting my own stories. I spent a month in...
Read moreTed Turner and Me, Part II
Pat Mitchell, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Elizabeth Dewberry, Ted Turner OK By popular demand, the continuation of the Ted Turner story. So at the end of the meeting in New York, Ted turned to me and said, ‘You go down...
Read moreTed Turner and Me
You want your ten minutes? Most people spend their lives thinking about or talking about what they are going to do, but few actually do anything. This is because no one ever taught them what to do. When we...
Read moreLessons From The Industrial Revolution
It was the Google of its day… Yesterday, the FT carried a very sobering article about the end of the Middle Class in America. It profiled several formerly Middle Class working families, all of whom are seeing both their...
Read moreAmusing Ourselves to Death*
ha ha ha… all very amusing… When I was growing up there were two books that provided alternative views of what the future might look like. One was 1984, by George Orwell, a totalitarian view of a world run...
Read moreTom Guilmette Demos Some Amazine SloMo Video
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/13596724[/vimeo] I found this through FStoppers.com, which is a new site to me, but very interesting. That led me to Tom Guilmette‘s site. Totally cool Check out what he does with some very hi tech slo mo video gear....
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