Word: regretfulness
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Everybody makes mistakes. In journalism, a profession devoted to keeping people properly informed, those errors can be embarrassing. That's why a blog called Regret The Error keeps track of the fourth estate's follies. Freelance journalist Craig Silverman started the project in 2004 after reading the following correction from Lexington, Kent., Herald-Leader: "It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the Civil Rights Movement. We regret the omission." Silverman has been tracking media-related corrections ever since. Regret the Error's annual "best of" list went...
...have let my family down, and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart...
...Anything you regret not doing while in college or that you would do differently if you had the chance to go back...
...Anything you regret not doing while in college or that you would do differently if you had the chance to go back...
Huckabee expressed regret over his decision to commute Clemmons' sentence, explaining on a Fox News program, "If I could have known nine years ago this guy was capable of something of this magnitude, obviously I would never have granted a commutation. It's sickening." Clemmons' rampage is now over, but it has raised many questions about the management of the country's criminal underclass, and the reverberations of those issues will continue for a long time...