by sumac | May 8, 2014 | Media Apologies
J.K. Rowling, beloved creator of Hedwig the owl, was a single parent after her marriage broke up. Surviving on state benefits, and with no childcare, she also worked a few hours at a church where they let her bring her child and kindly employed her for just enough...
by sumac | Oct 8, 2013 | Institutional Apologies, Media Apologies, True Crime Apologies
On December 17th, 2010, Joanna Yeates disappeared. She was a 25-year-old landscape architect in Bristol, UK. Her absence was discovered on the 19th, when her boyfriend returned from a weekend away and noticed that the car hadn’t been moved and the cat...
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...