by sumac | Sep 19, 2013 | Institutional Apologies, Media Apologies
Evening, the leafy gardens of Buckingham Place. Two police officers patrolling the grounds spot a male suspect they do not recognize. They act promptly. What happened next? Either they held the suspect at gunpoint and demanded he lie flat on the ground, as reported in...
by sumac | Sep 11, 2013 | Artistic apologies, Personal Apologies
Music writer Dave Bry, so blatantly riding off SorryWatch’s international fame (they love us in Italy, they love us in Brazil, they’ve heard of us in France), has written a book called Public Apology: In Which a Man Grapples with a Lifetime of Regret, One...
by sumac | Sep 6, 2013 | Artistic apologies, Corporate Apologies
In a small theater in a town I will not name, a local theater company did a performance of a one-man play. (Please note that this apology has nothing to do with my recent visit to Montana.) The show went well. The audience was great – responsive and engaged....
by sumac | Aug 16, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Scientific apologies
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and plays a neurosurgeon on TV. That is, he’s the chief medical correspondent at CNN. He’s a bestselling author (both fiction and nonfiction) won an Emmy, and has been discussed (in 2009) as a possible Surgeon General....
by sumac | Aug 13, 2013 | Corporate Apologies
In Lake Stevens, Washington, some people went to a cafe with other people who were small children. Scones were eaten. One child did or did not scream. The owner asked the people to leave, telling the adults they could return later – without their children....
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