Rosenblum blogs, avoids subtlety
Steve Safran March 1st, 2007
To know Michael Rosenblum is to have an opinion. Michael’s supporters (and yes, disclosure, I am one) find him funny, engaging, insightful and fearless. Michael’s detractors find his vision of VJs (video journalists who report, shoot and edit) to be anti-journalism and only in support of cutting costs. But I like reading work that challenges my notions, and I know the LR Faithful do as well. Michael has started a blog, and it’s going to engender the same passion as when an opinion of his gets on one of the TV-related boards. (He’s the only guy I know that can crack three figures on a comments board with ease.) Michael goes deeper into history than you may think to find examples of those unwilling to adapt to new technology. Michael ties together threads from Edward III and the Battle of Crecy, Alexander Graham Bell, and Jacob Perkins, inventor of refrigeration. Rosey is not subtle. And I recognize by recommending his site I’ll see the same comments he sees. That’s cool. Debate is healthy. TV newsrooms are firing people every week. That’s the reality. That’s not the fault of technology, it’s the fault of people who don’t see the benefits of it and don’t adapt to it. And if you still think you disagree with everything he says, read this item on “breaking news.”
17 Comments Add your own
1. Weaver | March 1st, 2007 at 2:42 pm
More about Rosy at the Lenslinger-dot-com.
2. David Johnson | March 1st, 2007 at 3:55 pm
been watching for a few days now, good to see his blogging matches his wardrobe.
3. 5w30 | March 1st, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Sorry, more consultant b-s.
Guy’s ruined at least three newsrooms in the USA.
I guess those who can do … those who can’t …
4. thedetroitchannel | March 1st, 2007 at 4:48 pm
yeah, “those who can” put their name on their opinions.
5. adam | March 1st, 2007 at 8:40 pm
The interesting thing that the annecdotal evidence points to is that his interesting ideas have been embraced by a few newsrooms but the problem is that Michael doesn’t get to stick around and be the News Director. Part of the issue is that we’re still a few years away from having top level newsroom managers who have come up with the web and cheap non-linear editing experience, total understanding of the pros/cons. He’s way ahead of the curve and still a bit in front of technology. HD quality is a wrinkle that I haven’t seen him address well.
6. Allen | March 1st, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I love this quote:
“How many Iraqis do you think have video camcorders? 10,000? 50,000? Every day they are filming what is happening to their country.”
Filming? As cutting edge as Mr. Rosenblum claims he is, he need to learn the terms of today.
7. Steve Safran | March 1st, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I’m just glad he didn’t say “shooting.”
8. Michael Rosenblum | March 1st, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Filming is obviouslyl anachronistic, but then again so is taping. Shooting does not work. How about digitaling?
9. Weaver | March 2nd, 2007 at 7:02 am
With our XDCams we’ve had this dicussion because even ‘taping’ something is out. ‘Digitaling’ sounds stupid, but we’ve said it to be funny. ‘Discing’ doesn’t flow very well either.
And can you imagine if people using P2 flash cards told potential interviewees that they wanted to swing by and ‘Flash’ them.
Webster’s Dictionary almost clears it up. The definition of film, the verb, says to make a motion picture.
Motion Picture, the noun, is defined like this….
1 : a series of pictures projected on a screen in rapid succession with objects shown in successive positions slightly changed so as to produce the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move.
Since there is no mention of the medium in which the ‘film’ is gathered, I’m leaning toward changning my opinion of the use of film as an all emcompassing verb.
would help with a definition of filming that emcompassed any act of gathering a moving picture onto any medium, but it doesn’t quite go that far.
10. thebeijingchannel | March 2nd, 2007 at 7:14 am
isn’t “recording” good enough?
11. Steve | March 2nd, 2007 at 7:47 am
Sheesh. You go out and either capture, acquire, gather or record clips/material. Even calling clips “footage” is archaic.
12. Michael Rosenblum | March 2nd, 2007 at 7:48 am
while we’re on the subject of nomenclature, it was the ’70s, the ’80s, the ’90s, and now…. what do we call it, the 0s? The zeros? the pre-teens?
13. thejethrochannel | March 2nd, 2007 at 8:06 am
how bout “the double naughts”?
14. Michael Gorman | March 2nd, 2007 at 9:24 am
I’m with our news partners in China on this one. I think we’re trying too hard. Recording seems to cover it, at least IMO.
15. David Johnson | March 2nd, 2007 at 10:51 am
i’m for double naughts, now i’m heading out to the ceement pond to try to catch a peek of ellie may in her bikini.
16. Allen | March 3rd, 2007 at 5:39 am
Shooting. End of discussion.
17. John Grabowski | February 13th, 2008 at 3:00 am
> Michael ties together threads from Edward III and the Battle of
> Crecy, Alexander Graham Bell, and Jacob Perkins, inventor of
> refrigeration.
All good salespeople do this. It’s part of the territory. It’s the critical thinker-reader’s job to deconstruct.
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