by snarly | Feb 20, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Personal Apologies, Youth apologizes
Comic Amy Poehler has a web site, Smart Girls, aimed at helping young women feel braver, more valued and more authentic. A regular feature is the video advice column Ask Amy. Here, a girl asks, “I’m having a really hard time admitting when I’m...
by snarly | Jan 18, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Sports Apologies
Mary Elizabeth Williams quoted SorryWatch in today’s Salon piece about the Lance Armstrong Redemption Song ‘n’ Dance Show. Your faithful correspondents have not watched the performance yet. Though having read the transcript of Part 1, we can point...
by snarly | Nov 9, 2012 | Celebrity Apologies, Media Apologies, Political Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Chris Matthews offered some chipper election-night commentary about Superstorm Sandy: “I’m so glad we had that storm last week!” When his seatmate Rachel Maddow responded with a strangled, “ooh,” Matthews clarified: “No —...
by sumac | Oct 29, 2012 | Celebrity Apologies
An aspiring 19-year-old Chicago rapper, Lil Reese (Tavares Taylor), signed to Def Jam records, just got better-known when a camera-phone video started going around, showing him striking down and kicking a woman who told him to leave her apartment. I’m not going...
by sumac | Oct 27, 2012 | Celebrity Apologies
The Rolling Stones are going on tour again. For this to happen, Keith Richards had to apologize to Mick Jagger for things Richards wrote about Jagger in his 2011 autobiography, Life. Rolling Stone (the publication, not a stray member of the band) got an exclusive...