The Apology Channel
The Apology Channel
In light of the growing number of celebrity apologies regarding their misbehavior in matters personal and public, a new cable television channel, launching on March 1st, will be dedicated to covering public figure apologies in great detail. The coverage will include docu-dramas detailing the events that led up to the apology as well as follow-up coverage and stories about life after the apology.
“Our goal is to cover these public figure apologies in great detail, and give a balanced presentation of the story. And we won’t be limiting our coverage just to celebrities—politicians, artists, and academics (just to name a few categories) are fair game,” said the president of The Apology Channel, Fing Richards.
The TAC (The Apology Channel) is already gaining popularity through word-of-mouth about its impending launch. There is even talk of providing pay-per-view live paparazzi coverage.
Critics are vehemently against having such programming on the air, citing the growing decline of intellectually stimulating programming on U.S. television.
In response, Mr. Fing Richards said that “TAC is simply looking to provide what the public wants to see—mindless garbage that makes no difference in their or anyone else’s life. We are just exercising our First Amendment right.” He continued by saying, “If Fox News can call their programming ‘Fair and Balanced’, TAC can certainly offer mindless entertainment and claim it as intellectually stimulating.”
Addendum: I just found out that there is an actual Apology Channel, but it’s a website.
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LOVE it!
I’m looking forward to this. I don’t record many channel broadcasts, but I would not want to miss a thing that anyone had to say about a celebrity apology. After all, I was most upset that the Q&A session following Tiger Woods’ apology was removed.
It will be refreshing to have a straightforward, unbiased approach to this delicate subject. For too long we have had to rely on pundits (who have very little experience with apologies) to explain and infer just what is being dealt with. Now we will have experts who can not only deal with the issue of public apologies, but can get right down to the nuts and bolts of a well crafted apology. This will do for apologies what the Nancy Grace Show has done for the subject of Law: namely, to hammer home, over and over again, what needed to be said only once. Or, sometimes, not at all. Bravo, Apology Channel. This is an idea whose time has come.
TOTALLY agree about Fox News. I almost spit out my juice when I first heard their slogan “Fair and Balanced”.
At least Fox has the moxie to put a blatent falsehood right in front of your eyes. The other “news” outlets melt your brain with liberal tripe and don’t even have the courtesy to vocalize a lie about being balanced (or truthful).
In my opinion, using modern mankind’s natural aversion to researching, thinking, and formulating one’s own opinions is far more insidious (brilliant too).
Give and apology, get religious, and enter a 12 step program… all is forgiven…
or you could just flee the country and hide out in France for a couple of decades and hope it all blows over.
I defense of Fox.. Cable and network “news” lacks the objectivity of real reporting. Opinion supersedes fact and spin slants truth. BIll O’Riely is not the only one with his thumb on the scales when it comes to Fair and “balanced”.
Why not have a Printed Form with predefined choices. That way the offender could just check the boxes that apply. This would save valuable time so they can get back to their life as usual, and we wont have to pretend we care.
Please pipe a live feed to Congress.
Apologies from congress?? perhaps apologies to congress as in “sorry I voted for you guys”