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.
Why BP Is In So Much Trouble – Mediawise, at least
oops…. The Chairman of BP, Carl Henrik Svanberg announced that BP CEO Tony Hayward would be removed from his contact with the press, pretty much, following a series of gaffs over the Gulf oil leak. To the average TV...
Read moreThe 1-Man TV Station in NJ that Scares The Crap out of Teheran
Taking a break from undermining the regime in Iran… Mehdi Saharkhiz stopped by the house yesterday afternoon for a chat. I read about him in The Guardian last week and was immediately intrigued. The headline in the Guardian ran:...
Read moreCutting Out The Middle Man
It only had one ap… I am reading a very interesting book, The Battery by Henry Schlesinger. It is as much the history of electricity as it is the history of the battery, for most electricity in the early...
Read moreThe Four Hour Long Commercial – Is This Journalism?
Hey, Lost Dogs, Hot Dogs… I gotta eat….. This morning, the Today Show took us on an exclusive tour of the new Harry Potter theme rides (and stores) at Universal Studios in Orlando. They sent down their best...
Read moreWhy I Didn’t Win The Knight News Challenge – And Other Complaints
OK. You know what? I don’t want to appear to be a sore loser. (unfair! unfair! unfair!) OK. Now that I got that out of my system, as I said, I don’t want to appear to be a sore...
Read moreFlash – This Just In!
Can you guys embed video? I am down at the US Government Run Telegraph Office filing my blog this morning. That would be the US Government Supported Telegraph Office. That would be the result of the US Government bail-out...
Read moreAny Idiot Can Have a Reality Show
Adventures in Sunderland So now it turns out that Laurence and Marianne Sunderland had cut a deal with Magnetic Entertainment in Los Angeles to produce a ‘reality show’ based on the Sunderland family and their compulsive desire to sail...
Read morePharmalot – A Model for the Future?
How a newspaper blog became profitable Ed Silverman (whose head is pictured above) was a graduate of NYU’s journalism school and then went to work for the Newark Star Ledger covering the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceuticals are a big business...
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