by sumac | Oct 8, 2013 | Institutional Apologies, Media Apologies, True Crime Apologies
On December 17th, 2010, Joanna Yeates disappeared. She was a 25-year-old landscape architect in Bristol, UK. Her absence was discovered on the 19th, when her boyfriend returned from a weekend away and noticed that the car hadn’t been moved and the cat...
by sumac | Oct 7, 2013 | Media Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Fox News Network is alternating between interpreting the current government shutdown as a lovely “slimdown” and as President Obama tormenting the people of the United States. They’re not treating it as anything the Republican Party has any responsibility for. In...
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 snarly | Aug 25, 2013 | Media Apologies, Other Apologies, Personal Apologies
Sure,...
by sumac | Jul 13, 2013 | Media Apologies
KTVU Channel 2, a San Francisco Bay area news channel, has been extensively covering the crash of an Asiana Airlines plane landing at SFO. And bragging about their coverage. On their noon newcast July 12, co-anchor Tori Campbell read out four names said to be those of...
by snarly | Jul 10, 2013 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Media Apologies
Yeah, cry me a river, New Hampshire. Try being Rhode Island, which never even gets its own puzzle piece. Try going through life attached to Massachusetts like a friggin’...