Philadelphia Adult Entertainment: Ronnie Polaneczky: This is what I call ‘manning up’ | Philadelphia Daily News …
January 26, 2012
There’s admission of the mistake, without blame-shifting. There’s acknowledgment of the pain it caused (not “might have caused,” as half-baked apologies go). There’s promise of future “caution, restraint and humility.” And there’s significant consequences for Edwards himself.
” . . . I will be stepping down from my post as Managing Editor, effective immediately,” he wrote. “I take full responsibility for the events that transpired tonight, and for the black mark upon the organization that I have caused.”
Edwards sounded so sincerely anguished, so willing to own the hot mess he’d cooked, I was practically cheering for him by the time he ended his note with a plea not for forgiveness, but understanding.
It’s rare that we hear a perfect apology. The “non-apology apology” of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer comes to mind, in which he acted noble for resigning from the office he disgraced by hooking up with a prostitute.
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