by snarly | Apr 2, 2016 | Media Apologies
Fair readers! We have two good-apology posts in a row! A few days ago, Portland Monthly magazine caused offense by publishing a story with the headline, “How Picking a School Splits Portlanders into Hostile Tribes.” The piece was illustrated with a fake...
by snarly | Feb 26, 2016 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Historical Apologies
According to the charming web site The Irish Aesthete, this framed item hangs in a bathroom at Birr Castle, County Offaly. As a lowly American Jewess not of the peerage, I don’t know whether the contrite Earl of Rosse is the current Earl (the 7th, for those...
by snarly | Feb 15, 2016 | Corporate Apologies, Religious Apologies
A week ago, the Sikh fashion designer/model/actor Waris Ahluwalia was denied permission to board a flight back home to New York, because he refused a demand from Aeromexico to remove his turban in public. Ahluwalia instagrammed a shot of himself stuck in the airport,...
by snarly | Jan 5, 2016 | Religious Apologies, True Crime Apologies
On Christmas, my non-SorryWatch-non-Sumac colleague Mark Oppenheimer published a piece in the New York Times about a New Age spiritual leader named Marc Gafni. Gafni advises such luminaries as John Mackey (of Whole Foods), John Gray (of Men Are From Mars, Women Are...
by snarly | Nov 13, 2015 | Academic apologies
Melissa Click, the University of Missouri professor of mass media who was seen on video trying to boot a student journalist from a protest, yelling “I need some muscle over here!” then grabbing at and trying to cover another...
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