by snarly | Dec 5, 2012 | Media Apologies
On Monday, the Jewish parenting blog Kveller published a piece by writer Christine Benvenuto about the strain of living in the same town as her ex. (You may be able to see it in Google’s cache, which is sort of a spoiler alert about where this is going.) The...
by snarly | Dec 4, 2012 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Newspaper “regret the error” corrections can be amusing. Sometimes they’re more than that. On July 4, 2004, The Herald-Leader newspaper in Lexington, KY ran a front-page correction: “It has come to the editor’s attention that the...
by snarly | Nov 30, 2012 | Artistic apologies, Other Apologies, Youth apologizes
From Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems by Gail Carson Levine, illustrated by Matthew Cordell, a whole book of insincere apology poems (based, of course, on the William Carlos Williams classic) for the 9- to 12-year-old set. Paired with Joyce...
by snarly | Nov 28, 2012 | Corporate Apologies
Good analysis of a corporate weasel apology over at Jezebel: An Australian cosmetics company ran an ad featuring a model in blackface, then pulled it, then trotted out a “sorry-if” and finally reinstated it. SorryWatch agrees with Jenna Sauers’s...
by snarly | Nov 26, 2012 | Youth apologizes
For those keeping score, this is the second bear-theft-related apology on this site. (Analysis: Handwritten notes are always good. But the wishful-yet-explicit mention of being forgiven — as well as the prominence of the word “forgive” [or forgev]...
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