by sumac | Jan 8, 2016 | Media Apologies
I write from a place thronged with icebergs. Little, big, massive icebergs. Grand, silly. Beautiful, peculiar. Sometimes adorned with wildlife. It’s a place where there’s an iceberg rule: don’t approach closer than three times the height of the...
by sumac | Jun 22, 2015 | Media Apologies
As June 12 was turning into June 13, an angry guy drove to Dallas Police headquarters in a newly purchased (Ebay) armored van, put down a few pipe bombs, and opened fire at the front of the building. When pursued, he rammed a cop car, fled in his van, was...
by sumac | Jun 18, 2015 | Media Apologies
There was a birthday party in Berkeley, California. Thirteen guests were out on the fourth-floor balcony when its supports suddenly snapped. It collapsed onto the balcony below, pitching people onto the sidewalk 50 feet down. Four people were killed instantly. Two...
by snarly | Apr 17, 2015 | Media Apologies, Sports Apologies
Apologizing to the public is well and good, but you also have to apologize directly to the person you wronged. And in this case, even the public apology was lousy. This morning a video was released in which ESPN reporter Britt McHenry delivered a nasty tirade to a...
by sumac | Feb 5, 2015 | Media Apologies
In 2003, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was reporting on-scene from Iraq. He was in a convoy of Chinook helicopters on a supply run over desert west of Baghdad when one of them was struck by rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) and small-arms fire. Well, no,...
by snarly | Jan 11, 2015 | Media Apologies, Personal Apologies
According to the delightful Passive-Aggressive Notes, Lorna in Adelaide found this eyebrow-raising classified in a local newspaper. WHAT COULD IT MEAN??? WHAT IS THE BACK-STORY HERE??? (My favorite theory from a Passive-Aggressive Notes commenter: It’s not an...
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