Such was the strength of internal and external feeling that the Times, along with its News Corp stablemate, had ignored the story that 96 people were unlawfully killed, that it put out a statement confessing to an error rather than a conspiracy.
I must confess to a personal prejudice here.
On Monday, Amazon.com confessed to "an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error" that caused thousands of books — a large proportion of them gay and lesbian themed — to lose their sales rankings, making them difficult to find in basic searches.
The advertising agency and the tobacco company were delighted by the unpaid publicity and were only too happy to confess to the error in the coda, "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" Like many usage controversies, the brouhaha over "like a cigarette should" is a product of grammatical ineptitude and historical ignorance.
The entire inquiry is about the struggle between two former lovers, the government and the BBC, to preserve their reputations, a struggle so fierce that neither side could confess to the remotest error.
That's not because I like to admit error more than anyone else, it's just that when you think about it, from a definitional standpoint you are the only one who can confess to your own error.
Cannon falsely confessed to a murder.
As we were talking, he confessed to a deep puzzlement.
But, on Wednesday, Wheeler confessed to a change of heart.
Curry allegedly confessed to a cellmate; confessed in interviews with investigators; and even confessed in writing.
IT is with great sorrow, and no small amount of embarrassment, that I must confess to some inadvertent errors, omissions and elisions in my best-selling memoir, "A Brief History of Tim".
