C14 Mea Culpa From Time Warner Time Warner's decision to block ABC in 3.5 million homes last week was an error, executives acknowledge, that came about through a legal miscalculation and a conviction that Disney, the owner of ABC, would back down in negotiations.
Something uncomfortable happens when a newspaper decides to explain its decisions – something unpersuasively pious (mea culpa, in my time as an editor) – and here I felt it had no reason to.
Mark Sampson made a point of thanking Baroness Campbell for her "integrity and care" during a mea culpa in the Times, followed up with another apology on the League Managers Association website, that felt suspiciously like a man trying to find his way back into the sport.
In what amounts to a mea culpa New York Times op-ed, Peter Buffett, Warren Buffett's son and overseer of his own philanthropic foundation, denounces the "charitable industrial complex" as little more than a conscience-salve for the rich.
Yet failure to attend to the forces that drive police work only promises to deliver an even thicker set of mea culpas the next time around.
The correct lyrics include the preposition "de" three times: "Que culpa tengo yo de estas caderas?
Sometimes a mea culpa works, but other times a vehicle never fully recovers from a disaster with the initial launch.
In fact, the mea culpa is repeated several times, albeit with different wording.
A few days later, during an interview with Carson Daly about the leak, Snapchat's C.E.O., Evan Spiegel, offered a weak mea culpa: "I believe at the time we thought we had done enough" to protect users' data, he said.
No mea culpas should be required this time.
