by sumac | Apr 7, 2022 | Media Apologies
When thinking about the climate crisis – or when not thinking about the climate crisis, just minding your business – it can be hard to remember that despite the personalized nature of weather, we all have just the one climate. When people in cold places fire up their...
by sumac | Jun 22, 2021 | Celebrity Apologies
SorryWatch enjoyed Kliph Nesteroff’s book We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans in Comedy, and we weren’t even expecting to find any apologies. The title’s from a joke by comedian Charlie Hill, explaining that...
by sumac | Oct 30, 2020 | Historical Apologies
Around 1910, a man who had recently become a grandfather learned that his grandchild was seriously ill and had to go to the hospital. His daughter, the child’s mother, was beside herself with worry, maybe close to a nervous breakdown. Although he was very busy,...
by snarly | Dec 5, 2019 | Bropology, Celebrity Apologies, Other Apologies
Hahahahaha, let’s all pose in coolie hats and do ching-chong eye-stretchy karate-y things! Let’s encourage this small child to participate merrily and racistly in our racist merriment! Eater explains that as part of an event in which chefs from around the...
by snarly | Jan 2, 2019 | Media Apologies
Oh, Will Shortz, no. SorryWatch loves the New York Times Crossword. SorryWatch does not love the apology for the use of an ethnic slur in a recent puzzle. Here’s editor Shortz’s apology: I’m very sorry for the distraction about BEANER (2D) in today’s fine...