Even though Watson unreservedly withdrew the racial statements (to describe him as Henry Porter did in the Observer as a "racist nut" is both stupid and offensive), many commentators went on banging the race-difference drum.
Once the feud had begun, the BBC's governors issued a statement unreservedly standing by the corporation's journalism.
Freedman released a statement "unreservedly apologising" and attempting to explain the comments on Friday morning, saying she was "mortified".
On Sunday she issued a statement unreservedly backing her husband and saying that she did not believe the charges against him, and then flew to Manhattan, where she has undertaken to pay Mr. Strauss-Kahn's $1 million bail and the other costs associated with it — including an apartment, an electronic bracelet and armed guards provided by a company authorized by the court.
For this the Guardian 'retracts the statement with an unreserved apology'.
The Guardian has no evidence whatsoever to the contrary and retracts the statement with an unreserved apology to Prof Chomsky.
"I can understand how you feel, and apologize, on behalf of DBS and my board members, unreservedly for the distress the statements must have caused you," S. Dhanabalan, the DBS Group chairman, wrote.
The News International statement said an unreserved apology, admission of liability and compensation was being offered "in certain civil cases that meet specific criteria", but that the company would "continue to contest cases that we believe are without merit or where we are not responsible".
In a statement, he offered an "unreserved apology" to the woman, who does not want her identity to be revealed, and said he was also sorry for deceiving "law-abiding members of London Greenpeace," a peaceful protest group.
In a statement on Thursday ITV and Schofield offered an "unreserved apology" for the This Morning gaffe, with a statement due to be read in open court at a later date.
And he has made an unreserved apology for, and retraction of, his quoted statements about differences in intelligence between Africans and Euro-Americans, published in today's Independent.
