by sumac | Nov 30, 2012 | Bropology
MIT student Jin Pan had a clever idea to spread hilarity and do good at the same time. He was enthusiastic about using social media skills to make it take off like a rocket, something he was later – in fact, soon – to regret. The plan was for people to donate money to...
by sumac | Nov 29, 2012 | Media Apologies
On Monday, Tom Ricks, a Pulitzer-winning journalist on military matters, was invited onto Fox News. When asked his views on the possible nomination of Susan Rice as Secretary of State, his succinct predictions included the remark that the Benghazi issue had been hyped...
by sumac | Nov 27, 2012 | Historical Apologies, Political Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Campbell Newman, the Premier of Queensland, Australia, has just apologized for a quarter-century of stolen babies. From the 1950s to the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of single women in Australia were forced to give up babies for adoption. They were bullied, misled,...
by sumac | Nov 24, 2012 | Other Apologies
At some point on the field trip for learning-disabled adults, one of the escorting staff members took a picture of another staffer acting goofy. The October field trip was to Washington, D.C.; they were at Arlington National Cemetery, by the Tomb of the Unknowns; and...
by sumac | Nov 22, 2012 | Media Apologies
Rupert Murdoch’s burbling again. He got a lot of flak for tweeting, “Why is Jewish-owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?” which was presumably directed at the New York Times. (Flak, plus puzzled people saying “Huh?” But see Michael Wolff...
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