by sumac | Apr 5, 2015 | Sports Apologies
A young phenom, discovered playing football, famous for playing baseball, but really wants to play basketball. What do you call the kid? Not “slut.” Mo’ne Davis is the athletic prodigy from South Philly. (Pronounced Moe-nay.) Coach Steve Bandura discovered the...
by sumac | Oct 17, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies
An August evening in a small public park in San Francisco’s Mission District. Neighborhood kids playing soccer. A group showed up, saying they had reserved the field for an hour, from 7 till 8pm. They looked like prosperous white guys, an impression their...
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...