In an extraordinary on-air move, Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate WCIA Champaign, Ill., ran a segment apologizing to viewers for the station’s coverage of the death of police officer Chris Oberheim who was killed in the line of duty in May.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — CBS Sports commentator Jim Beglin has apologized for making “culturally insensitive remarks” about Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Angel Di Maria during the broadcast of Manchester City’s 2-0 […]
Jay Leno has apologized for anti-Asian jokes he made on The Tonight Show stemming back two decades. In a joint press statement released Wednesday with the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, Leno admitted that he knew in his heart the jokes were wrong.
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The latenight host also says waiting to say something about the impersonation “was a mistake.”
A chart included on Special Report with Bret Baier illustrated gains made by the S&P 500 index after King’s assassination in 1968; the Ferguson, Mo., police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014, and the May 25 death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody. The network said it “should have never aired on television without full context. We apologize for the insensitivity of the image and take this issue seriously.”
Jimmy Fallon apologized on Tuesday after drawing criticism for a Saturday Night Live sketch from 2000, featuring him in blackface, that resurfaced online. In the skit, Fallon was portraying comedian Chris Rock while talking to Darrell Hammond as TV host Regis Philbin. NBC had previously removed the video from the internet, but clips have been circulating on Twitter and YouTube.
The apology didn’t satisfy President Donald Trump, who tweeted both Sunday and Monday that Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd should be fired.
