by snarly | Jun 5, 2017 | Institutional Apologies
Let’s examine two apologies for the exact same incident. One is terrible. One is excellent. But first, let me suggest we look at some adorable babies, because we’re gonna need to if we’re gonna make it to the end of this post. Ready? OK. Last month,...
by snarly | May 30, 2017 | Corporate Apologies, Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Media Apologies
Flawless. Oscar Munoz, are your ears burning? Read the rest...
by snarly | May 30, 2017 | Academic apologies
This past Sunday’s New York Times has a shudder-inducing story about a teacher at Phillips Academy who inappropriately romanced one of his students. Later, the teacher, Frederic Lyman, moved to Choate Rosemary Hall, where he was one of 12 former teachers found...
by snarly | May 21, 2017 | Bropology, Celebrity Apologies
You may or may not remember Happy Days, a relic from a long-ago time before Ron Howard was a big-macher director and Scott Baio was an intolerance-spewing sexist bigot. It was also a time before Henry Winkler was a best-selling children’s book author and/or...
by snarly | May 1, 2017 | Political Apologies
Go, Greybull Standard! The small-town paper’s lead paragraph (or “lede,” as we journos ostentatiously and wrongheadedly spell it) recently came out swinging in a story about some eyebrow-raising words from a state senator: Last Thursday, April 20,...
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