Lies, damned lies, and video editing

Lies, damned lies, and video editing

by | Dec 26, 2014 | Media Apologies

On July 18, 2013, Tyrone West was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in Baltimore. An unarmed black man, he somehow ended up dead. Some witnesses say they saw police (Baltimore city police and Morgan State University campus police) beating him. They say he did not...
Sorry if I seemed to be legally liable in any way

Sorry if I seemed to be legally liable in any way

by | Nov 6, 2014 | Media Apologies

Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch pointed this out to us. Retraction Watch focuses on scientific journals, with sample subject matter including spectroscopy, peptides, climate change, surgical techniques, quantum physics, and yes, surface temperatures of naked-neck...
No, No, Nancy

No, No, Nancy

by | Oct 14, 2014 | Celebrity Apologies, Media Apologies

Last night on NBC News, Brian Williams read aloud a non-apology from Nancy Snyderman, the network’s medical correspondent, who violated the terms of her quarantine after a photographer for her team in Liberia contracted ebola. According to the blog Planet...
Alas for human dignity, it was a burrito

Alas for human dignity, it was a burrito

by | Aug 17, 2014 | Media Apologies

Ugly stuff is and has been happening in Ferguson, Missouri. People were talking about it on Twitter the other night. Nate Silver, noted statistician, and now editor of the FiveThirtyEight blog for ESPN, joined in with an apercu about police use of force. Against Nate...

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