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Topic: apologies

Sorry, not sorry (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster)

Sorry, but fake apologies are the worst

D. Watkins
Matt Lauer (Getty/Jason Kempin)

Keep your lame apology, Matt Lauer

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Stephen Colbert (CBS/Comedy Central/Salon)

#FireColbert vs. #CancelCobert

Max Cea
(Getty/Jessica Kourkounis)

Never sorry — and it works

Heather Digby Parton
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(Reuters/Mike Segar)

Trump as a "gaslighter"

Paul Rosenberg
Keira Knightley, John Carney (Evan Agostini/invision/ap)

This is how you apologize

Rachel Kramer Bussel
Phil Anselmo (AP/Jonathan Short)

Not another weak celeb apology

Matthew Rozsa
(AP/Matt Sayles)

The old Bieber is back

Anna Silman
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Louis C.K. (Reuters/Gus Ruelas)

Louie C.K. apologizes to Palin

Anna Silman
(Fox/Chuck Hodes)

Deadline apologises

Anna Silman
Justin Bieber (Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn)

Bieber's teary apology

Anna Silman
Members of the St. Louis Rams raise their arms in awareness of the events in Ferguson, Mo., as they walk onto the field during introductions before an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014, in St. Louis. (AP/L.G. Patterson)

Did the Rams apologize?

Joanna Rothkopf
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Taylor Swift performs "Shake It Off" at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, August 24, 2014. (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Public apologies: a lost art

Erin Keane
(AP/Charles Sykes)

Jenny Kutner
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=317611'>Renphoto</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

I'm not sorry for saying sorry

Kylah Goodfellow Klinge

Rachel Kramer Bussel
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(Matt Sayles/invision/ap)

Celebrity apologies, ranked

Prachi Gupta
Stephen King. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Salon Staff

Tom Jacobs - Pacific Standard
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