by sumac | Jun 12, 2013 | Media Apologies
A bunch of media sites said radio ranter and Tea Party darling Glenn Beck apologized to us. Did he? The Daily Kos seemed to think it was an apology, but a “questionable” one. Their headline: “Glenn Beck apologizes for offending you with the truth.” The New York Daily...
by snarly | Feb 21, 2013 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Liberals and conservatives alike are cranky at Colorado State Representative Joe Salazar, who reportedly said that women are more emotional and can’t be trusted with guns and keep thinking they’re going to be raped and shooting innocent people. Liberals...
by snarly | Dec 13, 2012 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Media Apologies
The Poynter Institute, a journalism school in Florida, has published its list of the best and worst media corrections of 2012. There’s an excellent analysis of CNN’s apology and Fox News’s non-apology after both misreported the Supreme Court’s...
by sumac | Nov 29, 2012 | Media Apologies
On Monday, Tom Ricks, a Pulitzer-winning journalist on military matters, was invited onto Fox News. When asked his views on the possible nomination of Susan Rice as Secretary of State, his succinct predictions included the remark that the Benghazi issue had been hyped...
by snarly | Sep 29, 2012 | Celebrity Apologies, Media Apologies
Here’s Fox anchor Shepard Smith apologizing for his network’s airing of a man’s on-camera suicide moments earlier. Our analysis after the video: Let’s see, we have admission of wrongdoing (“we really messed up”), naming of the sin...
Thanks for the ping, Kim KardashianJanuary 15, 2024
Our paperback is here!January 2, 2024
Six times celebrities and public figures apologized terribly in 2023!December 29, 2023
I can’t apologize for walking the path God set me onSeptember 20, 2023
It was wrong to try to steal his secret sauceSeptember 12, 2023