Craig Silverman’s book Regret the Error contains a maze of a correction that simply corrects an incorrect correction. You can also follow more recent collections of corrections on his blog at the Poynter Institute. This is part of a complete...
A middle-school librarian caught the Arkansas Democrat Gazette messing up the title of the second book in the Hunger Games series. The newspaper then issued an abject apology. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Newspaper...
Scottish cocktail party n.—Gloss: A jocular, possibly nonce, term for “a fight.” «If I get into a Scottish cocktail party with a business, I commonly ask for a written letter of apology.» —“Did eBoost Media customer...
king hit n.— «A remorseful Barry Hall apologised to the game for the brutal punch that earned him a seven-match suspension last night.…The burly Swans” forward told the AFL Tribunal he was “sorry” and “very...
peculiar institution n.— «Alabama is now the fourth Southern state where modern-day lawmakers have apologized for slavery. In Mississippi, though, there has been no grand push to get an official acknowledgment of regret for what was once...