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FWIW First use on USENET appears to be December, 1995 so the 1991 New York Times usage is older. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:43, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Does the statement used as an example have to be documented as having been called a non-apology apology? Because I feel certain that there are examples much much older than 1991, although I can't think of any off the top of my head. IsaacSapphire (talk) 07:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Take a look at this: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Vatican_delivers_Pope_Benedict%27s_apology_for_offensive_comments_to_Islam. It surely qualifies as a Non-apology apology.
"It was absolutely inappropriate for me to do so."
I think that constitutes acceptance of guilt right there. Doesn't that mean it really is an apology? The fact that the Catholic organization was still miffed about his mention of the separation of Church and State doesn't mean it wasn't a real apology... Gijs Kruitbosch 13:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
I was under the impression that laws like this were vanishingly rare: here in Washington State, it was considered a major advance in lawsuit-reduction when, last year, a law was passed permitting doctors and hospital staff to apologize for mistakes without it being used against them in malpractice lawsuits. --Carnildo (talk) 19:49, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
There's an excellent compendium at "Apology?" that editors here may find useful.LeadSongDog come howl 00:05, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Mistakes were made was nominated for deletion on 1 June 2010. The The result of the discussion was keep, with the closing admin suggesting possible merger discussion, though no clear consensus to merge appeared in the deletion discussion. The nominator and two other discussants mentioned Non-apology apology as a possible target for redirect or merge, and two other discussants argued for merging without suggesting a target. Cnilep (talk) 17:35, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Done. Cnilep (talk) 01:09, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
On 17 May User:Nekose removed the entire section 'The Sony "rootkit"' without an edit summary. User:Adrian J. Hunter (rightly, in my opinion) reversed that edit as an unexplained blanking. However, I also think that Nekose was right to remove the section as a single, not terribly notable example, tantamount to trivia. I will therefore re-remove the section; I trust that no one will see this as edit warring, and invite anyone who objects to re-reverse me. Cnilep (talk) 09:27, 18 May 2011 (UTC)