PR Damage Control 101: How to Come off Contrite
"I plan to use this time for introspection and to learn to control my GREED/DRINKING/RAGE/ANGER/ANTI-SEMITISM/INSATIABLE SEXUAL APPETITES" (Circle the relevant details).
"I plan to use this time for introspection and to learn to control my GREED/DRINKING/RAGE/ANGER/ANTI-SEMITISM/INSATIABLE SEXUAL APPETITES" (Circle the relevant details).
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living
What seems like a minor slight to one friend can be blown out of proportion by another. It's always uncomfortable when there is a schism between two close friends, especially if they work together.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
Harboring resentment towards someone has a way of bouncing back like a boomerang to hurt you (including raising your blood pressure). Let go of the disappointment.
Michael Wolff | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Apologizing has become some formal social, political, and media condition. It's a ritual and nicety like a thank you; it's part of a political process, like a campaign; it's a media event like a season finale.
Patty Limerick | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver
The American people have an unfortunate habit of taking valuable public servants who have made stupid public statements and forming an instant bucket-brigade to deliver those public servants to the trash heap of history.
Andy Stokan | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy
When I said, 'I hate that Uncle Tom' I was referring to my Dad's brother Thomas Crowley. He's a real bastard. But I never knew that his name was also a racial slur.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
Sometimes people believe they need to obtain closure from another person before they sever a friendship. This isn't true.
Samara O'Shea | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
Last week, author Alice Hoffman issued an apology to a reviewer she attacked via Twitter. But an apology, by its nature, should focus on what you did wrong and not place blame on the other.
Jane Condon | Posted 07.26.2009 | Comedy
I want to apologize to my staff because I said that it was possible that I would be off hiking the Appalachian Trail, when I know full well that the Appalachian Trail does not run through Argentina.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Although some may argue that an apology for slavery would open the door to racial reparations, legal precedent demonstrates that an apology for slavery would not trigger legal liability.
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
Iranians have not asked for U.S. or other Western support other than a desire that our media continue to report their story.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
David Axelrod said on Sunday that those conservatives who insisted that Barack Obama's trip overseas constituted an apology tour weren't actually watc...
Stanton Peele | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
The inability to apologize and see the other side is a psychological weakness.
Don McNay | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
I want someone on the United States Supreme Court who can look back at actions that were wrong, feel a sense of injustice and make amends, even if the act happened forty or fifty years ago.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living
If your friend is unwilling or unable to forgive you, don't lash out in anger. Step back and learn from the experience.
Keith Blanchard | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media
Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired. I let my family down, and I let this country down.
Brian Wolff | Posted 04.04.2009 | Media
Check out www.ImSorryRush.com, the fastest and easiest way for a Limbaugh-Loving Republican to express the error of their ways to the king himself.
Rip Empson | Posted 03.05.2009 | Comedy
"We should really be congratulating the bong. I really hit that thing hard, and it responded," Mr. Phelps said in subsequent statements.
Harut Sassounian | Posted 01.18.2009 | World
During the past week, two public appeals were issued on the Armenian Genocide -- one by Turkish intellectuals and the other by prominent individuals in Armenia.
Jim Wallis | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business
If we are honest with ourselves, we realize that the very mistakes the leadership of GM, Chrysler, and Ford have made are all too recognizable in ourselves -- even if there are drastic differences of scale.
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
If we had known 8 years ago that you would nationalize many of the US's largest banks (Right on Comrade!), galvanize the nation to vote for a liberal Democrat to replace you ...
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 12.18.2009 | Comedy