by snarly | Jun 23, 2015 | Other Apologies
Interesting piece on Lifehacker (Gawker’s site about “living better in the digital age”) about Christian counselors Gary Chapman and Jennifer M. Thomas’s “5 Apology Languages.” It’s a sequel to Chapman’s popular 5 Love...
by sumac | 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...
by snarly | Aug 11, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
This morning, the web site Jezebel put up a post calling out its upper management. The post was headlined We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won’t Do Anything About It. Basically, misogynist trolls have been posting multiple images of gruesome rapes and...
by snarly | Apr 20, 2013 | Media Apologies
The New York Post’s Boston Marathon coverage was heinous. It ID’d the wrong men — two dark-skinned men, shocker — as the possible bombers, on the front page, causing these innocents fathomless pain and stress. And the the Post refused to back...