by sumac | Oct 25, 2018 | Corporate Apologies
Guest post from Jonelle Patrick Yes, getting caught red-handed falsifying safety data on the shock-absorbing equipment that’s supposed to keep skyscrapers from falling down in an earthquake is the kind of thing that might warrant a public apology. This week, the KYB...
by sumac | Feb 15, 2018 | Celebrity Apologies, Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
NBC just fired Joshua Cooper Ramo, whom they’d hired to do analysis for the Olympics. These winter Olympics are being held in South Korea. During the opening ceremonies, Ramo commented that from 1910 to 1945, Korea was occupied by Japan, “but every Korean will...
by sumac | Jan 8, 2018 | Celebrity Apologies
Logan Paul has been successful in careers that recently didn’t exist, like “YouTube vlogger,” or that recently didn’t exist and now don’t exist again, like “Vine star.” He’s also tried perennial categories like “actor” and “just started a...
by sumac | Nov 22, 2014 | Bropology
BY SPECIAL GUEST BLOGGER JONELLE PATRICK Damn, it used to be a white guy in Tokyo could get away with anything – like playfully choking girls in public, randomly ramming their heads into his crotch while cheerfully shouting “Pikachu!” and Instagramming a domestic...
by snarly | Feb 19, 2014 | Historical Apologies
Last week, Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama visited South Korea and met with three former comfort women. Comfort women, of course, were those 200,000 women (some of them very young teenagers) forced into prostitution for the Japanese military during...
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