Sportsline: Ratto: Impersonal tweets might save us from insincere apologies

[Revrag]

Fitting for the age, Sacramento Kings rookie Tyreke Evans tweeted an apology for his reckless driving. At first turned off, Ray Ratto comes to realize Twitter could be as sincere as sorry gets anymore.

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[Emma]

Does anyone else find this piece odd? I dunno what to think of this.

 

[bajaden]

I agree! Strange article. I usually like Ray Ratto, but this entire thing was much ado about nothing. No substance. Just assumptions. The Tyreke story was a fairly clear cut, simple story. Man speeds. Man gets caught. Man gets cited. And man apologizes. So lets write an entire article on whether his apology was sincere or not, based on the fact he tweeted an apology, and was limited by word count. How about, I'm sorry! Clear, concise and right to the point.

 

[Emma]

Right, I suppose that since this is dead time (besides the finals) he just needed something to write about. At least the Kings are in the national media.

 

[Bricklayer]

While I had the same reaction, I never ceased to be amazed by the fascination with big rehearsed apologies complete with professional speech writers, crocodile tears, and a choir in the background. Twitter is an idiotic phenomenon, but there is nothing more or less sincere about it than the big song and dance.