by snarly | Dec 4, 2012 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Newspaper “regret the error” corrections can be amusing. Sometimes they’re more than that. On July 4, 2004, The Herald-Leader newspaper in Lexington, KY ran a front-page correction: “It has come to the editor’s attention that the...
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 15, 2012 | Political Apologies
On Election Day, after an Obama rally in Colorado, reporter Dave Philipps intercepted Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for a few questions. He asked two puffy ones about Salazar’s whirlwind of campaign stops and what he’d cite as his big accomplishment in...
by snarly | Nov 14, 2012 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Local Fox News anchor if-apologizes (“if-apology” definition: if anyone was offended/if you don’t understand my sense of humor/if my job is in jeopardy unless I backpedal in some half-assed manner, then I APOLOGIZE, OK?) for saying “Rachel...
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 snarly | Nov 9, 2012 | Political Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
The ever-delightful Lindy West posted a roundup on Jezebel today of over-the-top peevish responses to the re-election of Barack Obama. One was a letter to Queen Elizabeth, posted on the web site of Free Republic by one Edwin R. Williams: Your Majesty, We, the people...
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