by snarly | Dec 10, 2014 | Celebrity Apologies, Institutional Apologies, Media Apologies
In a roundup last week, Jon Stewart offered up a list of Black men from around the country who had been killed by police in the last year. Unfortunately, one of the men wasn’t shot or strangled; he was Tasered while high and attempting to assault a sheriff. The...
by snarly | Oct 15, 2014 | Celebrity Apologies, Musical Apologies
Bono is shocked that he is forced by circumstances to apologize for his art. U2 did a Q&A on their Facebook page. One fan asked: “Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to people’s playlists ever again? It’s...
by sumac | Jul 16, 2013 | Sports Apologies
Bad apologies came sailing out of this year’s Wimbledon. So many bad apologies, that even leaving out Serena Williams’s apology for her remarks about the Steubenville rape case (because no tennis was involved), we didn’t know how we’d get up to...
by sumac | Oct 27, 2012 | Celebrity Apologies
The Rolling Stones are going on tour again. For this to happen, Keith Richards had to apologize to Mick Jagger for things Richards wrote about Jagger in his 2011 autobiography, Life. Rolling Stone (the publication, not a stray member of the band) got an exclusive...