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The Firing of Stephen Colbert and Hiring of TikTok. What’s the Deal?
October 2025 (8-minute read) Keywords: TikTok, Stephen Colbert, Bytedance, Skydance, Paramount, Oracle Corporation Actions and...
William Romanowski
8 min read
Cancer Is Like This (Part 2): Being Human Together
October 2025 (5-minute read) Keywords: cancer, Rocky, triumph, metaphors, American myth Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, and Michael...
William Romanowski
5 min read
Cancer Is Like This (Part 1): An American Tale
Americans have a love affair with “self-made” success stories. The story you tell yourself about life affects the way you make sense of...
William Romanowski
6 min read
Breaking News (Part 2): How’s That Working Out For You?
Did you know Fox News pundits, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson, got their start on MSNBC ? Hmm. DATE 2025 (6-minute read) Keywords: Fox...
William Romanowski
6 min read
Breaking News (Part 1): Oh, So That’s Why News Channels Don’t Have To Be Fair And Balanced
What we are experiencing is a phenomenon known as cultural lag , when rapid technological advances outpace social and cultural norms and...
William Romanowski
6 min read
That’s Showbiz: The Evolving World of Media Entertainment
April 2025 (7-minute read) Keywords: broadcasting; narrowcasting; streaming; media consolidation Remember Bruce Springsteen’s...
William Romanowski
7 min read
A Menu of Metaphors for Living with Cancer
April 2025 (5-minute read) Keywords: cancer; metaphors; battle; journey; crucible To describe feelings and experiences that are...
William Romanowski
6 min read
Playing Jedi Mind Tricks with Cancer
January 2025 (5-minute read) Keywords: cancer; Catherine Middleton; Princess of Wales; vulnerabilities; fatigue; perfectionism After...
William Romanowski
5 min read
What’s a ‘Media Bubble’ Anyway? Here’s What You Need to Know
January 2025 (5-minute read) Keywords: media bubble; confirmation bias; illusion of explanatory depth; algorithm; echo chamber; media...
William Romanowski
5 min read
The Discovery of Harveys Lake (Abridged)
October 1, 2024 (6-minute read) Keywords: Wyoming Valley; Harveys Lake; Benjamin Harvey; Zebulon Butler; Sons of Liberty In opposition to...
William Romanowski
6 min read
Joining the Cancer Community: Thanks, But No Thanks
October 1, 2024 (6-minute read) Keywords: cancer, prostatectomy, Gleason score, PSA Around the time I turned 50, I looked in the mirror...
William Romanowski
6 min read
The Need for a Little Perspective or, coming to terms with “perception is(n’t) reality”
October 1, 2024 (7-minute read) Keywords: perspective; post-truth; journalism bias; Taylor Swift; Kamela Harris; coconut tree; Iraq War ...
William Romanowski
7 min read
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