Austin Escorts: The Art of the Public Apology
In fact, late-night television may be the listening post most Americans rely on for making sense of these things. But the underlying problem represented by America’s inadequate apologizers runs pretty deep, said the Rev. Gary Dorrien, a professor of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan.
“Public trust is built on an assumption that public officials, and respected public figures, can be believed — that you can trust that they are who they say they are,” he said.
When public figures are revealed to be other than who they claimed — and follow up with apologies that betray them as having immature personalities, unfamiliar with the rigors of honest self-assessment — the fabric of social trust suffers, he said.
It’s not as if the whole thing suddenly tears in two because an Eliot Spitzer gets caught in a prostitution sting, resigns as governor of New York, and apologizes — but never mentions or admits that he broke the law.