{"id":604,"date":"2004-04-01T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/an_apology\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:25:29","slug":"an_apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/an_apology.html","title":{"rendered":"AN APOLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Viewers of tonight’s “Frontline” documentary<\/font><\/em><\/b><\/a> about the 1994 Rwanda genocide will be reminded of “the world’s failure to halt the slaughter.” That’s what I wrote<\/font><\/em><\/b><\/a> earlier today. How stupid for being so vague. I owe readers an apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should have said viewers will be reminded of “the failure of the United Nations.” I should have said they will be reminded of “the failure of the United States.” Because that’s who failed, not some entity called “the world,” which lets everybody off the hook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now I wonder whether the exhibition of Rwanda Project photos<\/font><\/em><\/b><\/a>\u00a0currently in the U.N. lobby, rather\u00a0than paying tribute to the Rwanda orphans who took them,\u00a0is actually an insult. The U.N. doesn’t deserve the right to show those photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Viewers of tonight’s “Frontline” documentary about the 1994 Rwanda genocide will be reminded of “the world’s failure to halt the slaughter.” That’s what I wrote earlier today. How stupid for being so vague. I owe readers an apology. I should have said viewers will be reminded of “the failure of the United Nations.” I should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75713,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/75713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}